Senior Project Manager

Raymondjames; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James in Saint Petersburg, FL, seeks a project leader to drive large, complex initiatives with a dispersed team. The role blends office presence and flexibility in a hybrid workstyle, requiring work from an office location at least three days per week, including either Monday or Friday.

The role emphasizes creating the project vision, planning documents, and ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to scope, with a strong focus on governance, risk management, and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex projects with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to plan, organize, and resource project workstreams.
• Strong stakeholder communication and requirement elicitation.
• Proven track record delivering projects on time, budget, and scope.
• Leadership experience with mentoring and coaching teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage production of project and workstream plans and ensure resources align to objectives.
• Plan and lead information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans and maintain relevant relationships.
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints; escalate and resolve as needed.
• Manage requirements analysis and verification to ensure deliverables meet needs.
• Lead medium-to-large project teams; define vision and coordinate actions.
• Monitor budget, scope, and quality to provide assurance reviews and improvements.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Planning & scheduling

Team leadership

Requirements gathering

Job description

Job Description Summary

Accountable for large projects of high complexity with a large, dispersed team. Focuses on the creation of the project vision and planning documents and managing the implementation, reporting, and performance of the overall project with the expectation of delivering on time, within budget, and to scope.

Job Description

This role is a hybrid workstyle: with the associate expected to work from a Raymond James office location at least three days per week, including either Monday or Friday.

Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the production of project and workstream plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized and resourced to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project and program management framework.
• Plan and lead the delivery of a range of information gathering, analysis, and stakeholder consultation activities and specify, negotiate, and agree on project deliverables.
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, to develop positive stakeholder relationships, and to ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice.
• Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating these matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.
• Manage the identification and elicitation of project and/or department-level process requirements; conduct analysis of those requirements for accuracy and alignment to the department; document and manage requirements throughout the life of the project; and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable.
• Lead a medium-to-large-sized project team; define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions on project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and work to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Manage the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Review existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered.
• Negotiate and manage deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Develop and manage the delivery of a plan to evaluate and track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximize them.
• Manage project closeout to ensure effective transition from the project environment to business as usual and to ensure lessons learned are identified and captured for future reference.
• Manage the project review process; provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at established review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on change.
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Skills:

• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while guiding and training others on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.
• Works at an advanced level to prioritize components of a project, program, or portfolio work in context with risks, activities, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Works at an advanced level to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, archiving, and disposition of project information. Typically works independently and provides guidance.
• Works independently and provides guidance and training to others on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to negotiate independently while providing guidance and training to others on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.
• Uses comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to act independently while providing guidance and training to others on identifying, managing and controlling project-related changes.
• Works at an advanced level t