Description

Key Responsibilities
Program Execution & Delivery

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps across all workstreams.
• Coordinate multiple workstream owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment and timely execution.
• Keep action logs current, follow up proactively with owners, and surface blockers early.
• Drive issue resolution, escalation management, and risk mitigation.
• Track progress against milestones and clearly communicate status to leadership on a regular cadence.

Executive Reporting & Governance

• Prepare executive-level status reports, decision-support materials, and governance updates that are clear, concise, and action-oriented.
• Facilitate governance forums, working groups, and executive steering meetings.
• Ensure deliverables, owners, and timelines are explicit and visible across all workstreams at all times.
• Manage dependencies across business, technology, risk, compliance, and operational teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7 years of project or program management experience.
• Proven track record delivering large, cross-functional initiatives in complex organizations.
• Strong experience developing project plans, managing dependencies, tracking milestones, and driving execution.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and lead work across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Experience preparing executive-level presentations, reporting, and governance materials.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
• Experience managing programs involving business, technology, risk, compliance, or operational stakeholders.
• Proficiency with standard project management methodologies and tools.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience within financial services, insurance, banking, or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred.
• Exposure to enterprise resilience, operational resilience, crisis management, global security, business continuity, risk management, or governance programs.
• Experience working in global security, intelligence, or fusion center environments.
• Familiarity with crisis simulation exercises, incident response coordination, or real-event support.

Key Competencies

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a bias toward action.
• Solution-focused: identifies problems and brings options, not just issues.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.
• Comfortable operating independently in fast-moving, high-pressure environments.
• Confident communicating with and presenting to senior executives.

Strong backgrounds include:

• Senior Project Manager or Program Manager roles leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives involving business, technology, risk, compliance, and operations.
• Enterprise PMO leadership roles within large financial institutions, insurance companies, or other regulated organizations.
• Operational Resilience, Risk, Governance, Regulatory Remediation, or Enterprise Change Management programs in a project/program management capacity.
• Consulting engagements focused on program delivery, transformation execution, or large-scale change initiatives

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree