Project Manager

$135,000 - $210,000/Yr

State Street Corporation - Boston, MA

Full-time - Senior

Boston, MA

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

Charles River Development, a State Street company, is seeking an experienced program manager to lead the product side of a significant client onboarding initiative. This role is crucial for ensuring the timely delivery of development work and involves engaging multiple internal teams, coordinating with vendors, and interfacing with clients to manage deliverables effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight of all scoping analysis, solution design, and management of execution work streams within the CRD development lifecycle.
• Act as overall solution lead on the CRD Product development items.
• Manage Product development governance meetings including project plan consolidation and material preparations.
• Manage the project management team overseeing projects associated with the program.
• Lead and oversee communication and engagement with stakeholders, driving program progress and escalating risks, issues, and solutions.
• Drive the implementation of project changes and interventions to achieve program goals.
• Work directly with engineering scrum teams to ensure timelines meet client implementation timelines.
• Manage all key stakeholder communications, including management-level reporting.
• Build and manage Jira/confluence sites to track development sprints.
• Work with scrum teams to define deliverables and release dates.

Requirements

• Minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years financial services experience.
• Proven institutional investment operations depth with subject matter expertise in core areas such as transaction management, reconciliations, corporate actions, performance measurement and attribution, derivatives, bank loans, and collateral management.
• Process re-engineering certifications and experience (Lean, Six Sigma Black Belt).
• Professional consulting experience is a plus.
• Proven leadership and program management skills.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, decision-making, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work effectively on a global scale with all levels of management.
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively across multiple organizations to reach common goals.
• Organized with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• PMO Certified a plus but not required.

Benefits

• Generous medical care
• Insurance and savings plans
• Flexible Work Program
• Development programs and educational support
• Paid volunteer days
• Matching gift program
• Access to employee networks