Senior Project Leader, Firm PMO

Senior Project Leader

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns. Behind everything we do is our purpose:
We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging. People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

The Senior Project Leader leads the execution of large-scale complex projects by defining and executing activities to deliver on scope. Lead multiple work streams or projects with clearly defined scope and oversight by defining and managing project activities, managing timelines, and ensuring alignment with business and technology goals. This role supports both traditional (waterfall) and agile (iterative) delivery models, facilitating planning, execution, and delivery across cross-functional teams.

In an agile environment, the Project Leader leads periodic planning, standups, and managing dependencies. This requires strong communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills to support business leaders and ensure successful delivery on outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead large-scale complex projects and contribute to large-scale initiatives; lead project coordinators and/or project team members in completion of medium to large-scale projects.
• Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across multiple areas, outside vendors and project leaders/teams who are working on a project.
• Facilitate project start-up activities, including requirements gathering, resource onboarding, and project documentation.
• Monitor, track, and report progress against project plans, including scope, schedule, cost, resources, and quality through dashboards and reporting against defined metrics.
• Plan for, identify, analyze, and resolve project risks and issues, and facilitate resolution efforts. Escalate unresolved or high-impact risks and issues appropriately
• Execute planning and facilitation activities to ensure delivery on outcomes.
• Manage cross-team dependencies and ensure alignment across work streams and/or other projects.
• Ensure the development and execution of testing strategies, including defect tracking and resolution.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 6 + years of experience in project management, including waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Previous leadership experience
• Superior presentation skills
• Working knowledge of enterprise project tools such as Clarity and Jira.
• Ability to independently identify, prioritize, monitor, communicate, and/or resolve elements that can impact a project.
• Superior organization and coordination skills
• Strong communication skills
• MBA or graduate degree preferred
• Project Management Certification, such as PMP and/or Agile Certifications, such as SAFe Agilist (SA) or SAFe Practioner preferred

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week. At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received. Check out our U.S. awards and accolades:
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Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account.

Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit…