Strategic Enterprise Project Leader

State Employees Credit Union of New Mexico; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 71,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

State Employees Credit Union of New Mexico is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead strategic, enterprise-wide initiatives that advance organizational priorities, member experience, and operational effectiveness. You will provide governance coordination, stakeholder management, and execution oversight across complex programs spanning multiple units, vendors, and systems.

You will collaborate with executive leadership, IT, Risk Management, and operations to standardize governance, reporting,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience with executive stakeholder management and project controls.
• Certified Lean Six Sigma or PMP preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic and enterprise-wide initiatives from initiation through implementation and stabilization.
• Facilitate project planning, governance, prioritization, scheduling, and stakeholder coordination.
• Coordinate cross-functional resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and implementation activities.
• Partner with business units to define scope, objectives, requirements, and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain project plans, status reporting, timelines, risk logs, and executive reporting materials.
• Identify operational, regulatory, member experience, and implementation risks and elevate appropriately.
• Facilitate executive steering committees, project meetings, and stakeholder communications.
• Support organizational change management, business readiness, training coordination, and implementation planning.
• Promote standardized project management methodologies, governance practices, and reporting consistency.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma and process improvement principles to improve project execution.
• Coordinate vendor implementation activities and third-party project dependencies as applicable.
• Monitor project performance, resource constraints, milestones, and implementation outcomes.
• Support development and maturation of the enterprise PMO framework and governance processes.

Skills

Project governance

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Agile/Waterfall/hybrid

Lean Six Sigma

Budget & controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration/Project Management or related field

Job description

State Employees Credit Union of New Mexico is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead strategic, enterprise-wide initiatives that advance organizational priorities, member experience, and operational effectiveness. You will provide governance coordination, stakeholder management, and execution oversight across complex programs spanning multiple units, vendors, and systems.

You will collaborate with executive leadership, IT, Risk Management, and operations to standardize governance, reporting,