Watercress Financial Group LLC is seeking an experienced and organized Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex projects. This role involves coordinating between stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent projects (scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, resources)
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, detailed schedules, resource plans, and budgets
- Create and manage project charters, RACI matrices, communication plans, and change management processes
- Facilitate effective project kick-offs, status meetings, steering committee meetings, and retrospectives
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues — driving timely resolution
- Manage scope change through formal change request processes
- Track and report project health using KPIs, earned value metrics (when applicable), and executive dashboards
- Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, business owners, product managers, engineering, design, marketing, finance, legal, and external partners
- Ensure projects align with company strategic objectives and OKRs
- Drive continuous improvement of project management practices, templates, and governance within the organization
- Mentor and support junior project coordinators / associate project managers (when applicable)
- Lead enterprise-wide projects from initiation through delivery, managing scope, schedule, budget, and quality
- Develop detailed project plans, resource forecasts, and risk mitigation strategies
- Facilitate weekly status meetings and steering committee meetings
- Ensure stakeholder alignment and manage expectations across departments
- Assess requirements to ensure they are complete and contemplate impacts on the entire business application / systems when solutioning
- Build strong relationships with internal teams, vendors, and external partners
- Work with business and IT teams to ensure technical solutions meet business needs
- Maintain project documentation including requirements, status reports, and dashboards
- Track KPIs and success metrics; escalate risks and issues proactively
- Support PMO governance processes and contribute to portfolio prioritization
- Foster a positive and ethical work environment while establishing effective communications of matters and timely resolution of issues
- Champion project management best practices and continuous improvement
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve delivery efficiency
Requirements:
- Experience in leading end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent projects
- Ability to develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, detailed schedules, resource plans, and budgets
- Experience in creating and managing project charters, RACI matrices, communication plans, and change management processes
- Proven ability to facilitate effective project kick-offs, status meetings, steering committee meetings, and retrospectives
- Proactive identification, assessment, and mitigation of project risks and issues
- Experience in managing scope change through formal change request processes
- Ability to track and report project health using KPIs, earned value metrics, and executive dashboards
- Strong relationship-building skills with sponsors, business owners, product managers, engineering, design, marketing, finance, legal, and external partners
- Experience ensuring projects align with company strategic objectives and OKRs
- Ability to drive continuous improvement of project management practices, templates, and governance
- Experience mentoring and supporting junior project coordinators / associate project managers
- Experience leading enterprise-wide projects from initiation through delivery
- Ability to develop detailed project plans, resource forecasts, and risk mitigation strategies
- Experience facilitating weekly status meetings and steering committee meetings
- Ability to ensure stakeholder alignment and manage expectations across departments
- Experience assessing requirements to ensure they are complete and contemplate impacts on the entire business application / systems
- Ability to build strong relationships with internal teams, vendors, and external partners
- Experience working with business and IT teams to ensure technical solutions meet business needs
- Ability to maintain project documentation including requirements, status reports, and dashboards
- Experience tracking KPIs and success metrics; escalating risks and issues proactively
- Experience supporting PMO governance processes and contributing to portfolio prioritization
- Ability to foster a positive and ethical work environment while establishing effective communications of matters and timely resolution of issues
- Experience championing project management best practices and continuous improvement
- Ability to identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve delivery efficiency