Sr. Project Manager

Title:
Sr. Project Manager

Duration: 9 months

Location:
Windsor, Connecticut 06095

This role serves as the primary point of accountability to business partners and other stakeholders for project planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, readiness, and reporting of medium to large projects and/or small programs. These projects typically range from millions of dollars and often come with varying scope, high complexity, and non-contained risk that support simple to moderately complex business unit or corporate goals.

The project/program objectives address complex business goals and will usually span multiple IT and/or business areas.

The individual in this role is accountable for managing and monitoring project tasks and controls during portfolio planning, project planning, and delivery activities to ensure on-time and quality outcomes are met within scope and budget. The successful candidate will work independently and apply expert project management and advanced program management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, and presentations to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.

Additionally, they will understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools.

• Hands-on and results driven leader with a proven ability to work collaboratively and effectively across organizations and cross functional teams
• Innovative leader with the ability to question status quo, influence change and provide forward thinking
• Accountable to business sponsor(s) and management to drive delivery of quality solutions tied to clearly understood business problem(s) and benefit(s)
• Deliver project/program objectives on-time, with quality, within scope and budget to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations
• Develop, manage, monitor, and report on all project/program tasks, activities, controls, deliverables, and reports
• Supply accurate project/program estimates and tightly manage project budget, approved funding, forecasts, and actuals; understands what is driving the costs and what is needed to achieve desired outcomes
• Promote early awareness, communication, transparency and mitigation planning of critical dependencies, risks and issues within project
• Secure and maintain project/program resources and actively manage resource plan
• Facilitate & drive simplified solutions to complex problems to enable positive outcomes
• Drive lessons learned and knowledge retention for future use
• Build partnerships and alliances across the enterprise and at all levels
• Be a trusted advisor / leader with project team, customers and stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools
• Look for and champion opportunities to reduce cost and improve efficiency while delivering on all commitments
• Actively coach and mentor members of the PM community
• Manage vendor relationships as required

• Strong ability to promote, champion change; start with ‘yes’
• Effectively operate with ambiguity and limited information
• Demonstrate proven capability to be disciplined and flexible at the same time
• Ability to communicate the need for change, its purpose, and its expected impact to stakeholders at all levels of the organization to ensure understanding and buy-in
• Strong Project Management Financial Acumen ability
• Success of building partnerships and alliances across the enterprise and at all levels
• Proven ability to create open environments conducive to freely share information and ideas; listen and effectively communicate with clarity and precision
• Tailors the communications language, method and frequency based on the intended audience; embeds escalation wording to add emphasis to key updates and decision points
• Exercise independent and fair consensus building skills when conflicts arise
• Proven ability to apply expert/leading project management and advanced program management skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, and presentations
• Continuous learner; quickly…