Transformation Change Project Manager (Investment Banking)

Phyton Talent Advisors; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Phyton Talent Advisors is seeking a highly organized, senior Program/Project Manager to lead a major enterprise initiative that centralizes 4–5 core systems across a global organization. You will unify regional workstreams, drive discipline, and own governance with HR as the primary stakeholder.

You’ll lead Steering Groups and multiple workstreams, ensure a single source of truth in JIRA, and hold stakeholders accountable while applying Agile rigor to a complex implementation.

Qualifications

• Strong program and project management experience in hybrid environments.
• Experience on large-scale enterprise or global implementations.
• Deep expertise with JIRA and Agile methodologies.
• HR transformation or HR tech experience is a plus.
• Experience establishing governance, steering committees and working groups.
• Track record managing global and regional stakeholders at senior levels.
• Highly organized, proactive, and able to drive accountability.

Responsibilities

• Bring together siloes and create a consistent operating rhythm across the program.
• Coordinate regional remits to align local execution with global goals.
• Manage Steering Groups and ~5 working groups; prepare agendas and follow-through.
• Own governance: documentation, action items, dependencies, decisions.
• Ensure JIRA is the single source of truth for program status.
• Identify and address gaps; hold teams accountable.
• Partner with senior stakeholders, including HR leadership, to present status and risks.
• Apply Agile rigor to a large-scale enterprise implementation with multiple workstreams.

Skills

Program/Project Management

Stakeholder Management

HR Transformation

Governance

Communication

Hybrid Working

Strategic Thinking

Cross-functional Leadership

Tools

JIRA

Agile Methodologies

Job description

We are seeking a highly organized, senior-level Program/Project Manager to lead a major enterprise initiative centralizing 4–5 core systems across a global organization. This program touches 80+ areas and groups, spanning funding, network, HR systems, privacy, modeling, and remittance functions. The team today operates as independent regional workstreams; this role exists to unify those workstreams, drive consistency, and instill program-wide discipline. HR is the primary stakeholder for this initiative.

This is not a role for someone who waits to be directed. You will come in with a point of view, immediately establish structure, and hold a global set of stakeholders accountable to it.

What You’ll Do

• Bring together historically siloed regional workstreams and create a consistent operating rhythm across the program.
• Coordinate regional remits across a global organization, ensuring alignment between local execution and program-wide goals.
• Manage and coordinate the Steering Group(s) and approximately 5 working groups, including agendas, materials, and follow-through.
• Own governance: documentation, action items, dependencies, decisions, and overall program structure.
• Ensure JIRA is consistently updated, well-documented, and maintained as the single source of truth for program status.
• Take ownership of accountability across teams — proactively identify what’s falling through the cracks and close the gap.
• Partner closely with senior stakeholders, including HR leadership, presenting status, risks, and decisions clearly and credibly.
• Apply Agile methodology and rigor to a large-scale enterprise implementation with many concurrent, interdependent workstreams.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Program/Project Management experience, ideally in a hybrid capacity.
• Proven experience on a large-scale enterprise or global system implementation, with an understanding of the complexity involved.
• Deep working expertise in JIRA and Agile methodologies.
• HR transformation or HR technology experience strongly relevant; exposure to systems such as SuccessFactors, ADP, and/or Qualtrics is a plus.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, steering committees, and working groups from the ground up.
• Track record managing global and regional stakeholders, including at senior/executive levels.
• Exceptionally organized, detail-oriented, and proactive — comfortable holding others accountable without being asked.
• Polished communication style; equally effective in a working session and in front of senior leadership.