Project Manager

Wisconsin Investment Board - Madison, WI

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Madison, WI

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

About the position

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a premier global investment organization responsible for managing over $156 billion of assets. Founded in 1951, SWIB is recognized for its effective and innovative investment management, ensuring that the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) remains one of the only fully funded public pensions in the U.S. SWIB serves more than 677,000 beneficiaries and is committed to providing a strong financial future for public employees. The organization is focused on growing and protecting the assets of the WRS while managing risk and optimizing costs. SWIB's Project Management Office (PMO) plays a crucial role in overseeing, planning, and managing projects across the organization, collaborating with key stakeholders and subject matter experts.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through the life-cycle: define and manage the project scope and project plan, drive the project to completion, resolve issues and ensure progress, deliver a successful project implementation.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and realization of intended business benefits.
• Organize resources into a project team; assign tasks and manage workloads.
• Monitor project task progress and dependencies.
• Escalate issues and risks accordingly and help drive their resolution - providing input as needed.
• Pro-active communication to project team, stakeholders, senior management, and the wider organization, managing expectations.
• Prepare well-structured materials and audience appropriate messaging.
• Facilitate agency-wide meetings to elicit information necessary to help groups engage, secure commitment, establish requirements, gain consensus, and generate decisions.
• Provide discipline around both project budgets and project documentation.
• Ensure implementation success by establishing appropriate levels of training and testing.
• Foster team learning and collaboration by encouraging and modeling open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.

Requirements

• At least 5 years experience at investment management organizations with a significant part spent in a project management role.
• Ability to communicate clearly and appropriately at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to forge strong working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new processes and approaches.
• Experience implementing complex projects at investment management organizations.
• Experience of modern software implementation approaches.
• Substantial knowledge of the end-to-end investment operations lifecycle, including processes, workflows, and investment platforms/systems.
• Detailed exposure to various investment types, security types, and asset classes, with a solid understanding of their unique applications within investment strategy.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with creating and driving change management plans.
• Superb work ethic, attention to detail, collaborative approach, and commitment to excellence.

Nice-to-haves

• Qualifications/Certification in project management is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive total cash compensation based on AON (formerly McLagan) industry benchmarks.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Educational and training opportunities.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Challenging work in a professional environment.
• Hybrid work environment.