Senior Manager, Project Management

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

The Senior Manager, Project Management is a senior leadership role accountable for building high-performing teams, delivery excellence, and the continuous evolution of the Project Management discipline. The role combines line management of experienced Project Managers, active ownership of the firm’s most complex initiatives, and location leadership for the Krakow Project Management population.

• Build and sustain high-performing project management teams, setting and reinforcing a consistently high performance bar
• Manage and coach 6–8 senior Project Managers (typically 10–15 years’ experience)
• Drive continuous upskilling across delivery leadership, financial management, stakeholder engagement, and execution discipline
• Provide structured coaching, feedback, and performance management aligned to enterprise PM standards
• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and delivery excellence
 

• Support project, pod, and portfolio staffing decisions to ensure optimal use of PM capability and capacity
• Actively manage demand versus supply, identifying risks, bottlenecks, and succession gaps
• Serve as escalation point for delivery conflicts, prioritization trade-offs, and performance concerns
• Support hiring, onboarding, and talent planning for the PM population
 

• Act as Lead Project Manager for the most complex, high-risk, and business-critical initiatives
• Demonstrate deep expertise across both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies, applying the right approach for the context
• Own end-to-end delivery including planning, governance, SDLC alignment, financial management, risk, and stakeholder communication
• Model best-in-class project artifacts, controls, and execution discipline
 

• Own and evolve PM standards, SDLC alignment, and delivery governance
• Lead PPM tool enablement, adoption, and effective usage across the PM community
• Ensure consistent use of project artifacts, reporting, and financial controls
• Balance standardization with pragmatism to enable scalable, high-quality delivery
 

• Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve delivery efficiency, insight quality, and execution rigor
• Build AI proficiency across the PM population through practical use cases and applied learning
• Identify, pilot, and scale repeatable AI use cases across planning, reporting, risk, and forecasting
 

• Provide visible leadership for the Krakow Project Management population
• Act as direct line manager and coach for local PMs, aligned to global standards and expectations
• Build a strong local PM community focused on excellence, development, and engagement
• Represent Krakow within the global PM leadership forum
 

• Prior hands-on experience as a Project Manager delivering complex initiatives
• 15+ years of Project / Program Management experience in complex, regulated, or global environments
• Proven expertise across Agile and Waterfall delivery models and SDLC frameworks
• Strong financial management, performance management, hiring, and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and consistently raise the delivery bar
• Credible executive communicator with strong influencing skills
 

• Sustained high performance and engagement across managed PMs
• Improved delivery predictability, quality, and financial outcomes
• Increased maturity and adoption of PM standards, tools, and AI-enabled practices
• Strong bench strength and progression of PM talent
• Successful execution of the firm’s most complex initiatives
 

What we offer:

Hybrid model 3 days per week in the office /2 days for a parent of a child up to 4 years old

• To encourage cultural awareness and philanthropy, BBHers have 1 Culture Celebration Day and 1 Community Service Day in addition to their paid standard vacation allowance

• Task based working system

• Private medical care

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program - offering independent and confidential counselling services for you and your family. You can get support for topics including family, marriage and relationships, finances, and legal issues.

• Professional trainings and qualification support

• Wellbeing Program

• Online Social Fund benefit platform

• Social, sport and integration events

• Onboarding Program for new hires

• Design thinking skills and solutions-oriented mind-set.

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

Go to BBH.com to learn more about our rewards and benefits, philanthropy, approach to sustainability or how we support you to thrive personally, physically and financially.