Project Manager

AgTexas Farm Credit Services; Amarillo (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AgTexas Farm Credit Services seeks a Project Manager in Amarillo, TX to plan and coordinate approved initiatives, align stakeholders, track progress, and guide work from planning through closeout.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and proven experience managing cross-functional projects, coordinating with departments, and communicating decisions. PMP/CAPM credentials are a plus, with a focus on delivering results in a collaborative agriculture finance environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with cross-functional project coordination.
• PMP/CAPM credentials are beneficial.
• Experience planning and coordinating cross-functional projects and facilitating stakeholder decisions.
• Strong ability to define project scope, develop practical plans, and manage risks.

Responsibilities

• Partners with project sponsors, department leaders, and subject-matter experts to define project objectives, scope, expected outcomes, responsibilities, and measures of success.
• Develops and maintains project plans, workstreams, milestones, timelines, dependencies, resources, and decision points.
• Coordinates cross-functional work from discovery and planning through testing, implementation, follow-up, and closeout.
• Facilitates project meetings and working sessions, documents decisions, and ensures owners understand commitments and next steps.
• Tracks project health, deliverables, action items, risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes; follows up and escalates concerns as appropriate.
• Provides concise status reporting and timely information needed by project sponsors and leaders to make decisions.
• Coordinates business testing, issue resolution, implementation, launch readiness, stabilization, and transition activities.
• Partners with Training and Enablement and business leaders to prepare employees for changes to systems, processes, tools, or responsibilities.
• Promotes consistent project-management practices, tools, templates, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across AgTexas.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, project management, technology, operations, or a related field

PMP

CAPM

Tools

Microsoft 365

Asana

Job description

COMPANY PROFILE:

AgTexas Farm Credit Services serves and supports approximately 2,600 member/borrowers in areas of lending, insurance sales, appraisal, and/or leasing. Eleven office locations can be found throughout the Association's 43-county trade territory, and the association has an average loan volume of approximately $2.85 billion, with total assets equaling $3.2 billion. The lending portfolio consists of cotton, livestock, dairy, feed grains, real estate, and ag-related business loans. Additionally, the association territory provides diversity in production and mortgage loans as well as commodities financed. Without strong financial backing farmers and ranchers will not survive, and people will not have food to eat or clothes to wear. AgTexas provides reliable credit and crop insurance to our member-owners, so they can feed and clothe the world.

POSITION:

The Project Manager position is located in Amarillo, TX with a salary that is negotiable, depending upon experience. This position is responsible for planning and coordinating approved projects, aligning stakeholders, tracking progress, and guiding work through implementation and closeout.

*AgTexas, at its sole discretion, may offer this position with a different title based upon the qualifications of the candidate.

MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree in business administration, project management, technology, operations, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Experience should include planning and coordinating cross-functional projects, facilitating stakeholder decisions, managing risks and dependencies, and supporting implementation. PMP, CAPM, or a comparable credential is beneficial but not required.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

Excellent organizational, interpersonal, administrative, and communication skills are required. Strong ability to define project scope, develop practical plans, coordinate work across departments, facilitate meetings, document decisions, track commitments, and maintain visibility into risks, issues, timelines, and resource needs. Must be able to build accountability without formal authority, adjust plans as conditions change, and communicate effectively with employees, leaders, technology teams, and vendors. Experience with Microsoft 365 and project or work-management tools such as Asana is preferred.

KEY RESPONSIBILITES:

• Partners with project sponsors, department leaders, and subject-matter experts to define project objectives, scope, expected outcomes, responsibilities, and measures of success.
• Develops and maintains project plans, workstreams, milestones, timelines, dependencies, resources, and decision points.
• Coordinates cross-functional work from discovery and planning through testing, implementation, follow-up, and closeout.
• Facilitates project meetings and working sessions, documents decisions, and ensures owners understand commitments and next steps.
• Tracks project health, deliverables, action items, risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes; follows up and escalates concerns as appropriate.
• Provides concise status reporting and timely information needed by project sponsors and leaders to make decisions.
• Coordinates business testing, issue resolution, implementation, launch readiness, stabilization, and transition activities.
• Partners with Training and Enablement and business leaders to prepare employees for changes to systems, processes, tools, or responsibilities.
• Promotes consistent project-management practices, tools, templates, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across AgTexas.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Frequent interaction with project sponsors, association departmental staff, subject-matter experts, and management. Occasional interaction with association senior management, Farm Credit Bank of Texas staff, technology teams, and external vendors. Frequent coordination across departments to support decisions, manage dependencies, and move approved work forward.

EOE/AA/M/F/D/V

AgTexas FCS is an Equal Opportunity / affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information.

Persons with disabilities who require an accommodation to complete the application process should call our Lubbock office at [phone] and ask to speak to one of our HR representatives to request accommodation in the application process.