Project Management Director

Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against:
We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work.

Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

This position will have primary responsible as an individual contributor for the management of a strategic initiative who has primary accountability to business partners and other parties for project planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, readiness, and reporting of several large and significant project or medium to large programs (typically up to $25M) where scope is subject to change, contains significant complexity, and significant risk, substantial number of resources, and complex organizational change issues that support complex enterprise or strategic corporate goals.

May partner with the business to develop road maps, in every case, project/program objectives address complex business goals or accountable for the proper prioritization, funding and sequencing of projects/programs. The projects/programs will span multiple IT and/or business areas and will likely require the integral involvement of a solutions provider. Accountable to manage and monitor project tasks and controls during portfolio planning, project planning, and delivery activities to ensure on-time and quality outcomes are met within scope and budget.

Work with a high degree of autonomy and apply expert/leading project and program management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, presentations to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.

• Responsible for shaping, leading, developing and maintaining program/project strategies to support business objectives and drive growth, ensuring alignment of initiatives to strategic goals and objectives
• Drive execution and achievement of milestones in highly matrixed organization without direct control of resource management responsibilities
• Address business challenges by bridging the gap between strategy and execution and identifying scalable solutions designed to reduce the complexities.
• Act with strong personal and situational awareness; understands what motivates stakeholders; learns their concerns, takes them seriously and addresses them.
• Partners with Finance to support and provide insight to leadership on portfolio and/or program financials and forecast; understands what is driving the costs and what is needed to achieve desired outcomes.
• Responsible for financial management of respective programs/projects. Accountable for understanding financial trends, insights and recommendations.
• Responsible for effective vendor management including being able to manage effectively the sourcing process within context of the role, managing vendor deliverables, understanding dependencies both for individual vendors and between multiple vendors, managing risk mitigation and understanding where the vendor supports a critical path item
• Act as a trusted advisor / leader with team, customers, and stakeholders at all levels of the organization (up to and including SLT/EC); solid executive…