Senior Manager - Enterprise Project Management

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Description

• As the Sr. Manager of Enterprise Project Management at BECU, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and driving our enterprise-wide project and product management strategies. • You’ll lead a talented team of project managers, ensuring seamless delivery of initiatives that align with our strategic goals. • Through your leadership and expertise, you’ll foster an environment of continuous improvement, championing best practices and agile methodologies to deliver exceptional business outcomes. • Your contributions will directly influence BECU’s operational excellence and strategic growth. • Define and develop enterprise-wide EPMO methodologies, governance, standards, processes, and metrics to ensure consistency and excellence across the organization. • Educate, motivate, and provide thought leadership on project management methodologies, fostering a culture of excellence throughout BECU. • Lead the progression of project and product development frameworks, including Waterfall and Agile, with a focus on continuous improvement in collaboration with key stakeholders. • Partner with the Enterprise Agility team to evolve and improve Agile practices across the organization. • Drive organizational change management initiatives related to EPMO practices, ensuring smooth transitions and adoption. • Manage a team of project managers, providing coaching, mentoring, and training to encourage professional growth and high performance. • Hire and onboard full-time employees and contingent staff, ensuring the team is equipped to support BECU’s needs. • Align project managers with initiatives that support business goals and strategic priorities. • Deliver all projects and products in the BECU portfolio on time, within budget, and aligned with strategic objectives. • Track key project metrics, identify risks, and develop mitigation plans to ensure project and product success. • Act as the primary escalation point for EPMO challenges, removing organizational impediments and fostering resolution. • Provide regular portfolio reviews and produce reports to inform stakeholders and support decision-making. • Ensure projects and products meet audit standards and are compliant with organizational policies. • Partner with cross-functional teams to remove barriers, optimize processes, and achieve business outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business administration, or a related discipline, or equivalent education or work experience required. • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a related functional area, including managing projects, programs, or portfolios, and a minimum of 3 years of experience leading teams required. • Knowledge of software development processes, with practical experience in both Waterfall project management methodology and the Scrum framework required. • Proven ability to deliver large and complex projects, including managing project scope, schedules, resources, quality, costs, and change management required. • Experience implementing organizational change initiatives and improving program and project management organizations required. • Effective management, interpersonal, and communication skills required, with the ability to resolve problems efficiently and analyze information effectively. • Advanced degree preferred. • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.

Benefits

• Employees and their eligible family members have access to a wide array of employee benefits, such as medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage. • Employees have access to disability and AD&D insurance. • We also offer health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts, as well as health savings accounts, to eligible employees. • Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan and employer-funded retirement plan. • Newly hired employees accrue 6.16 hours of paid time off (PTO) on a per pay period basis based on hours worked (up to a maximum of 160 PTO hours per year) and receive ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year.