Senior Program Manager

Senior Program ManagerLocation: Irving, 75039 Job Type: ContractPosted 1 day agoApply NowFunction: Project / Program Management Job Ref: 234134 Grow your career as a Senior Program Manager with an innovative global bank. Long-term contract with excellent growth potential. Will be required to be onsite 2-3 days per week.Responsibilities: Serve as example of Program Management excellence by aligning programs to the PM Practices. Establish and execute governance aligned to PM Taxonomy for assigned work efforts; continually adapts governance based on evolving program requirements. Provide challenge to statuses reported to highlight risk. Maintain alignment to the approved engagement strategy. Manage resources within the program to ensure appropriate workload within the team; continually assesses the programs resourcing strategy and escalates to the EL for enterprise or strategic resources when necessary. Provide the benefit of your experience and network to clients and assigned initiatives and programs. Drive accountability and engagement by holding oneself and the team accountable for deliverables and performance of the program. Demonstrate advanced judgment and conduct in-depth quantitative or qualitative analysis to structure and solve problems and develop new, innovative solutions. Manage, mentor and coach team members to elicit their best performance while partnering with the EL and people managers to build out skills and/or identify high performing individuals. Actively build and manage the relationship with the client. Works as a partner to build strong relationships with senior project and program stakeholders. Implement and leverage the enhanced PM practices to drive value to your clients and stakeholders, work as a partner and deliver results. Maintain 100% compliance. Proactively identify and act on opportunities to manage risk through streamlining, simplifying and eliminated redundancies. Act strategically by anticipating and designing changes to business systems, processes, templates, and tools in response to initiative/program needs. Employ excellent communication skills to negotiate and to articulate complex recommendations and build organizational competency in the use of updated methods and models. Set direction and tone of the work by driving the pace and providing clear effective communication. Capture and document lessons learned, sharing experiences across the organization. Identify best practice work product examples and communicate same to the administrators of best practice repository. Increase the value proposition of engagements by providing domain expertise in program management while maintaining focus on the program benefit realization.Qualifications: Bachelor''s degree is required, preferably in a Business related field. 10+ years of business side Program Management experience supporting complex business projects from conception through rollout and ongoing support. 7+ years of experience applying a structured project management approach/methodology to project management, tracking, planning, monitoring and reporting of concurrent, multiple financial services projects spanning broad geographies and organizations. PMP certification (or ability to acquire PMP within 1 year) Excellent influencing, facilitation, and partnering skills. Experience and ease in interfacing with Senior Management. Project management experience in a large global corporation. Must have technical proficiency in MS Project, Word, and PowerPoint. Must have advanced MS Excel skills, including macros, pivot tables, Vlookup, etc. Experience with enterprise program management tools. Prefer financial services experience. Prefer experience in a business office or similar capacityAbout our client Our client stands as one of the worlds most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services. Its teams provide unique insights to more than 200 million clients and enable progress all over the world. While growing your career, you will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you. Apply NowCandidates will be responsible for following the client''s COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics. About Us At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. Its why were consistently in the top 25 of all U.S. IT staffing firms and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average, earning us ClearlyRated''s Best of Staffing awards year after year. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care. MATRIX is and Equal Employment Opportunity employer including disability and veteran and provides reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable. If you are a qualified individual you may request a reasonable accommodation under the American Disability Act (ADA). If you are a person with a disability needing assistance applying, or at any point in the hiring process, please email us at [Click Here to Email Your Resumé] . To ensure a quick response to your request, please use the words Accommodation request as the subject line of your email. For hourly W2 contract roles MATRIX offers a highly competitive benefit package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, HSA, and 401(k) with pre and post-tax options. Please see /Benefits for more information. For direct hire placement with our clients, benefits would be offered in accordance with that particular clients offerings. This may include PTO, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other pre and post-tax options.

Created: 2026-04-04