Sr Project Manager

| Minneapolis, MN, USA
Employer Provided Salary: 105,700-132,120 Annually
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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 that 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.

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Get to know the Opportunity:

Primary point of accountability to business partners and other parties for project planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, readiness, and reporting of medium to large projects and/or small programs (typically $2M-$4M) often with varying scope, high complexity, and non-contained risk that support simple to moderately complex business unit or corporate goals. Project/program objectives address complex business goals. The projects/programs will typically span multiple IT and/or business areas. 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 independently and apply expert/leading project management and advanced program management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, presentations in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations. Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools

What You Will Contribute:

  • Accountable to business sponsor(s) and management to drive delivery of quality solutions tied to clearly understood business problem(s) and benefit(s)
  • Deliver project/program objectives on-time, with quality, within scope and budget in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations
  • Develop, manage, monitor, and report on all project, program, and/ or portfolio tasks, activities, controls, deliverables, and reports
  • Promote early awareness, communication, transparency and mitigation planning of critical dependencies, risks and issues within project
  • Demonstrate proven capability to be disciplined and flexible at the same time
  • Supply accurate project estimates and tightly manage project budget, approved funding, forecasts, and actuals
  • Secure and maintain project resources and actively manage resource plan
  • Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools
  • Look for and champion opportunities to reduce cost and improve efficiency while delivering on all commitments
  • Facilitate & drive simplified solutions to complex problems to enable positive outcomes
  • Naturally lead and command authority, influence and inspire without control
  • Proven ability to create open environments conducive to freely share information and ideas; listen and effectively communicate with clarity and precision
  • Exercise independent and fair consensus building skills when conflicts arise
  • Anticipate and head off problems that can jeopardize delivery, budget, customer readiness, and customer acceptance
  • Demonstrate team building skills by developing high performing project teams, setting a positive tone and leading by example
  • Hold self and project team accountable for valued business outcomes
  • Remove barriers to enable project team to complete objectives no matter how difficult
  • Actively coach and mentor members of the PM community
  • Effectively operate with limited information and ambiguity
  • Effectively negotiate priorities and solutions
  • Manage vendor relationships as required
  • Drive lessons learned and knowledge retention for future use
  • Coordinate and facilitate meetings and capture clear and actionable minutes
  • Coordinate and execute consistent time entry processes and reporting for all project team members

Minimum Knowledge & Experience:

  • 4 year college degree or equivalent work experience preferred
  • Proven ability to apply judgement in all scenarios
  • Success of building partnerships and alliances across the enterprise and at all levels
  • Tailors the communications language, method and frequency based on the intended audience; embeds escalation wording to add emphasis to key updates and decision points
  • Expert understanding of project management principles
  • Proven ability to apply expert/leading project management and advanced program management skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, and presentations
  • Expert knowledge of a project lifecycle
  • Efficiently utilize current project and/or portfolio planning, reporting, and support tools
  • Efficiently develop, manage, monitor, and appropriately report on programs, projects, portfolio and/or project tasks and controls
  • Continuous learner; quickly adapt to changing environment and personalities
  • Develop business case, understand it thoroughly, and continually monitor projects or programs against it to ensure benefit realization
  • Experience interacting with and influencing senior members of management
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills required

Preferred Knowledge & Experience:

  • 8-10 years experience
  • Health Solutions experience
  • Planview

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Compensation Pay Disclosure:

Voya is committed to pay that's fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.

The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate's geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

$105,700 - $132,120 USD

Be Well. Stay Well.

Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That's why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.

What We Offer

  • Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
  • 401(k) Savings plan - with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
  • Voya Retirement Plan - employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
  • Paid time off - including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
  • Paid volunteer time - 40 hours per calendar year

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Critical Skills

At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

  • Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
  • Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
  • Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
  • Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
  • Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.

Reasonable Accommodations

Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.

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More Information on Voya Financial
Voya Financial operates in the Financial Services industry. The company is located in New York, NY, Braintree, MA, Windsor, CT, Atlanta, GA, Jacksonville, FL, Minneapolis, MN and Tempe, AZ. Voya Financial was founded in 2014. It has 5463 total employees. It offers perks and benefits such as Health insurance, 401(K), Remote work program. To see all 39 open jobs at Voya Financial, click here.
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