What does a great Project Manager, Advisory do?
This role gives you the unique opportunity to work across all Fiserv businesses. You'll have visibility with Executive leadership across the organization, which will provide you long term career growth opportunities. You'll plan, coordinate, and monitor large scale, complex projects with a high degree of risk. Partnering with key business stakeholders will ensure a successful start-up and completion of a project. Projects can span multiple business units or functional areas. If you are known for your judgement, leadership, business acumen and problem solving, this may be the next step in your career. You're the kind of person who values accountability and commitment and is a life-long learner.
In this role, you can expect to:
Provide a holistic view of the overall project to the organization and all stakeholders
Engage in project planning activities, including: Defining the overall scope of the project; Creating and maintaining a consolidated timeline/schedule highlighting the major milestones and associated dates for project activities; Identifying and communicating project dependencies and impacts; Putting mechanisms in place to ensure on-going control of the project (E.g., Kick off meeting, overall Project Management Approach, Communication Plan, Risk Management, Issues Management, Change Control, etc.)
Monitor the integrity of the program and execute measures to maintain such integrity
Define project governance, outlining roles, responsibilities, decision rights and clearly defined escalation path
Ensure success criteria defined upfront to promote alignment and actively manage to expected project outcomes
Keep all stakeholders (internal & external) engaged in the project, aligned on expected outcomes and informed about what is occurring throughout project
Proactively communicate the project's progress on an on-going basis, ensuring transparency throughout project lifecycle. Provide leadership and key stakeholders with the information and venues to make effective, timely decisions
Serve as a liaison with client and 3rd parties, ensuring alignment and understanding of key dependencies
Required Qualifications for Consideration:
• Bachelor's degree
• 7 years of project management experience
• Experience in project management processes and methodologies, as well as, project life-cycles
• Experience in driving large scale projects within an organization
• Experience with matrix management of cross-functional processes and teams
• MS Project experience
Travel required: Approximately 20-25% travel post-pandemic
Preferred qualifications:
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience in banking, financial services, and/or software industries
Learn more about Fiserv:
To support the total well-being of our associates, Fiserv takes a broad approach to our benefits. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that provides flexibility and affordability with a variety of medical, dental, vision, life insurance and disability options.
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