Project Manager - BU

BECU is a financial institution with a commitment to serving its members and communities. The Project Manager will lead high-impact projects in enterprise analytics, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivering expected outcomes through effective project planning and execution.

Responsibilities:

• You’ll lead complex, mid- to large-scale projects from planning through execution and closure, ensuring alignment with business goals and delivering measurable outcomes
• You’ll partner with cross-functional teams across the enterprise, aligning priorities, managing expectations, and ensuring seamless communication throughout the project lifecycle
• You’ll provide weekly updates to executive leadership, clearly outlining progress, risks, roadblocks, and recommended solutions
• You’ll draft scopes of work, define deliverables, and ensure all project activities are clearly documented and aligned with expectations
• You’ll manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, balancing priorities while maintaining quality and timeliness
• You’ll proactively identify risks, manage dependencies, and drive resolution strategies to keep projects on track
• You’ll apply and enhance project management methodologies, ensuring consistency, structure, and operational excellence
• Develop and implement project management practices, governance standards, and metrics specific to the business unit
• Develop detailed work plans for complex projects and assign project team members to support business objectives
• Conduct regular meetings with stakeholders to align on project status, issue resolution, and tactic development for the project team
• Track key project milestones and recommend adjustments to project team members, business partners, and stakeholders
• Manage the activities of partners and outside resources working on assigned projects
• Ensure consistent and timely communication for executive sponsors, project sponsors, stakeholders, and team members regarding project status, issues, and risks
• Define, report on, and measure expected business outcomes for all projects upon completion
• Incorporate effective change and risk management controls to ensure project success
• May manage project budget including the creation of a budget forecast and reconciliation of actual spend against forecast
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related discipline or equivalent work and educational experience required
• 5+ years of experience leading projects, with a demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously, effectively solve problems, analyze data, and confidently present insights to executive-level stakeholders
• Advanced degree preferred
• Project Management or Scrum Master certification preferred
• Experience operating in an Agile Framework
• Experience with Enterprise Analytics and Azure DevOps