Director, Project Portfolio Management Lead

Webster Bank - Essex, VT

Full-time - Senior

Essex, VT

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Director, Project Portfolio Management Lead at Webster Bank is responsible for overseeing the management of strategic initiatives within the organization. This role involves collaborating with business and technical leadership to drive the delivery of prioritized strategic roadmap initiatives, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. The Portfolio Lead manages project managers, vendors, and internal partners to achieve desired outcomes and is the primary interface for project requirements and communications.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic initiatives across a complex organizational structure to ensure project delivers expected outcome, on time, on budget, on scope, with quality and adhering to established Program and Project Management methodologies.
• Develop, facilitate, and execute comprehensive project plans and schedules, vendor-related agreements, requirements' gathering sessions, daily/weekly stand ups, and executive reporting.
• Serve as the primary client interface for project requirements, schedule, scope, changes, and budget.
• Develop project governance and communication plans and direct communication with executive sponsor/project owner as well as other leaders; manage and lead all project communications with internal/external stakeholders.
• Ensure decisions are captured, risks and issues are tracked, mitigated, resolved and/or escalated as appropriate.
• Gather requirements leveraging an analytical mindset to uncover and solve for downstream impacts, definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and internal partners.
• Responsible for the project plan, budget, implementation, monitoring, control and close. Take accountability for project execution.
• Accountable for proactive notification and management of change(s), issue(s) and risk(s); as well as mitigation and contingency planning.
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals.
• Support project reporting and documentation processes; deliver status reports and analysis for leadership on an ongoing basis.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation ensuring project practices, processes and documentation meet all quality and auditable standards.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of experience in program and project management.
• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field.
• Big picture thinking and selling the vision.
• Effective communication skills at all levels.
• Excellent written, verbal problem solving, use of situational thinking and facilitation skills.
• Constant risk management mindset.
• Capable of multitasking in high paced, pressured environment.
• Ability to influence and align cross functional team members to achieve a higher business results.
• Proven thought leadership capabilities, creative thinking skills, ability to quickly drive change.
• Effective conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to make difficult and quick decisions on a daily basis.
• Ability to influence a diverse group of stakeholders-strong leadership skills.
• Competent in MS Office Suite.
• PMP Certification preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $135,000 to $155,000 USD.
• Eligible for incentive compensation.