Senior Portfolio & Project Lead – Financial Services

Santander US; New Haven (CT); On-site; USD 94,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Santander US is seeking a Sr. Associate, Project Management to lead complex, multi-year initiatives within the financial services domain. You will guide project governance, manage budgets and executive communications, and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver strategic outcomes.

You will act as a trusted advisor, driving change, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment across leaders and staff while ensuring milestones and quality standards are met throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 9+ years formal Project Management experience in a Financial Services environment.
• 9+ years Estimating and budgeting to ensure project costs are maintained.
• 9+ years Building project planning documents.
• 9+ years Developing and coaching others indirectly or directly—coaches, reviews and delegating work to lower level professionals.

Responsibilities

• Acts as an internal consultant to make professional recommendations for project implementation.
• Acts as key escalation point for operational issues.
• Supports complex initiatives affecting multiple functions or businesses.
• Serves as a dedicated resource working directly with leaders and staff to support process improvement.
• Acts as a change agent/coach to instill and sustain changes.
• Motivates functional process team working on projects within a matrix reporting structure.
• Engages people and develops them through team work and a high level of participation.
• Manages process and project management deliverables for all assigned projects from initiation thru closure, including intake activities.
• Drives/participates in the funding process, as appropriate (i.e. presentations, cost-benefit analysis, business case).
• Leads and contributes to the development of project definition and scope with applicable stakeholders.
• Assess change readiness and prepare plan for helping stakeholders through change.
• Identifies project duration, effort, sequence, and dependencies of tasks required to meet applicable project objectives.
• Monitors and documents project milestones and outcomes throughout the project lifecycle to ensure adherence to established quality standards.
• Facilitates Project Team meetings and situational analysis regularly to ensure appropriate communication to all stakeholders.
• Develops presentations, dashboards, reports and other team and executive level project communications and documentation.
• Drives high quality results.
• Develops, communicates and implements project risk mitigation plans and completes risk actions, issues and decisions documentation to effectively monitor risk and enable accountability and responsibility.
• Develops and implements contingency and recovery plans when deliverables are missed (i.e. identify critical path, document, plan for Return to Green, business continuity plan, etc.).
• Documents and communicates project changes, project health and project status project team, business owner an executive sponsor.
• Tracks and reports accurate project plans and budgets in line with appropriate governance.

Skills

PM leadership

Budgeting

Risk management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in related field

Tools

Clarity

Visio

Excel

MS Project

PowerPoint

Job description

Santander US is seeking a Sr. Associate, Project Management to lead complex, multi-year initiatives within the financial services domain. You will guide project governance, manage budgets and executive communications, and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver strategic outcomes.

You will act as a trusted advisor, driving change, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment across leaders and staff while ensuring milestones and quality standards are met throughout the project lifecycle.