Project Manager

Planet Group; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Group is seeking a Project Manager in Boston, MA for a 6-month hybrid engagement to lead a high-visibility transformation within Markets Technology. The role pays 80-85/hr and requires coordinating cross-functional teams and governance to deliver outcomes.

You will develop program plans, manage RAID, milestones, and executive reporting while partnering with business and technology stakeholders to drive delivery and accountability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of financial program management experience.
• Experience managing large-scale programs.
• Senior-level program management and business analysis experience.
• Financial services / banking experience.
• Strong governance, requirements, and project planning skills.
• Experience managing RAID, dependencies, risks, milestones, and action items.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Experience working across large, matrixed organizations.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, and cross-functional team management.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive accountability.
• Experience with transformation, technology delivery, and business process change.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of a high-visibility transformation program within Markets Technology.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across a large financial institution.
• Establish program scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Create integrated program plan, RAID, dependency map, and executive status reporting.
• Manage governance, steering forums, decision rights, and issue escalation.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders on current-state and future-state requirements.
• Lead requirements workshops and translate discussions into clear actions.
• Coordinate application, infrastructure, security, data, operations, risk, and vendor teams.
• Identify risks and dependencies; develop mitigation and escalation options.
• Prepare executive presentations, dashboards, and status communications.
• Oversee program finances, forecasts, and change control.
• Coordinate user readiness, training, testing, controls, and transition to operations.
• Apply data tools and automation to improve transparency and delivery speed.

Skills

Financial program management

Large-scale programs

Executive communication

Governance and planning

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Transformation delivery

Ambiguity management

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk and dependency management

Job description

Title: Project Manager
Location: Boston, MA - hybrid onsite
Duration: 6 months, likely to extend
Pay: 80-85/hr

Job Description

• Lead day-to-day execution of a highly visible, cross-functional transformation program within Markets Technology.
• Bring strong program management, business analysis, governance, and executive communication skills.
• Organize complex work and drive progress across a large, matrixed financial institution.
• Establish program scope, outcomes, workstreams, milestones, resource needs, and acceptance criteria.
• Create and maintain the integrated program plan, roadmap, RAID register, dependency map, decision log, action tracker, and executive status reporting.
• Establish effective delivery governance, including working sessions, steering forums, decision rights, escalation paths, and evidence-based closure standards.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define current-state processes, future-state requirements, operating impacts, controls, and implementation priorities.
• Lead requirements workshops and convert complex discussions into clear requirements, process flows, decisions, owners, and delivery actions.
• Coordinate and drive accountability across application, infrastructure, cyber security, data, operations, risk, compliance, audit, finance, procurement, and vendor teams.
• Identify delivery risks and dependencies, develop mitigation plans, and escalates issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Prepare executive presentations, decision papers, dashboards, meeting materials, and status communications.
• Manage program financials, resource forecasts, vendor activities, delivery forecasts, and change control.
• Coordinate business readiness, implementation planning, communications, training, testing, controls, and transition to sustainable operations.
• Use data, workflow tools, automation, and artificial intelligence responsibly to improve transparency, quality, and delivery speed.

Qualifications & Skills

• 10+ years of financial program management experience.
• Experience managing large-scale programs.
• Senior-level program management and business analysis experience.
• Financial services / banking experience.
• Strong governance, requirements, and project planning skills.
• Experience managing RAID, dependencies, risks, milestones, and action items.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Experience working across large, matrixed organizations.
• Strong stakeholder, vendor, and cross-functional team management.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive accountability.
• Experience with transformation, technology delivery, and business process change.