AVP, Strategic Project Manager - Pittsfi

Division: Corporate Strategy
Department: Enterprise PMO
Reports to: FVP, Enterprise Strategic Project Management
Status: Exempt/Officer
Grade: 10
Salary Range: $71,216 - $102,474
Salary range updated 2/26/2026. Actual compensation within the pay range will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior relevant experience, and specific work location.
Location: Hybrid within MA, CT, RI
Purpose/Objective:
The Strategic Project Manager is a key role within the Strategic Projects Management Office responsible for delivering complex and strategic projects on time, on budget, and that the original business value is realized. This role requires a project management professional with an understanding of Banking Operations and IT. The Strategic Project Manager will provide overall direction and project leadership by defining the scope, setting critical successful factors, assigning necessary resources, assessing, and controlling risk, communicating with stakeholders, executing against an agreed plan, delivering the technology, product, or service, and assessing the success of the project overall.
Key Accountabilities:
* Function as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders to advance business topics pertaining to strategy.
* Support strategic initiative development from ideation through implementation pertaining to key strategic initiatives, including project management responsibilities, as needed.
* Facilitate the definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements for strategic projects.
* Participate in the management of the strategic project portfolio, ensuring on-time, to-budget, and to-specification delivery of prioritized IT initiatives aligned with business priorities.
* Build and maintain strong relationships with business representatives and stakeholders. Understand who the client is and what their needs are. Provide realistic expectations and help establish specific customer satisfaction standards and actively monitor client satisfaction.
* Enhance project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques, including scope definition, requirements capture, plan development, risk management, effective communication, decision making, and problem solving.
* Understand Corporate and Department goals and translate into effective enterprise initiatives, services and capabilities.
* Establish robust performance measurement frameworks including key performance indicators, milestones, and any other relevant metrics. Monitor project progress and performance, identifying issues, and opportunities for improvement.
* Prepare executive and board level presentations and project status reports to executive leadership providing recommendations for course corrections as needed.
* Ensures... For full info follow application link.

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