Key Responsibilities:Project Initiation, Planning & Delivery· Partner with sponsors and business owners to validate business cases, objectives, expected benefits, scope, estimates, milestones, deliverables, and acceptance criteria against PMO standards.· Develop and maintain integrated project management plans, work breakdown structures, schedules, critical-path dependencies, resource plans, and approved cost and schedule baselines.· Select and tailor predictive, agile, or hybrid delivery practices to project needs while maintaining required PMO controls, documentation, and approvals.· Coordinate applications, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, data, and vendor workstreams as applicable; manage interdependencies and competing priorities across concurrent projects.

PMO Governance, Controls & Audit Readiness· Apply the Project Management Handbook, PMO standards, and applicable systems development life cycle (SDLC) requirements; guide customers and delivery teams through governance processes.· Prepare Category 3 and 4 projects for Stage Gate 2, Approval for Execution; retain approval evidence before proceeding.· Establish project governance, steering committees, decision rights, roles and responsibilities, escalation paths, and documented meeting decisions and actions.· Maintain a controlled project repository containing approved business cases and estimates, project plans, requirements and design documents, status reports, change requests, risk and issue records, and testing and defect-resolution evidence.· Partner with PMO, Quality Assurance, Cybersecurity, and control owners to incorporate applicable security, privacy, compliance, and audit requirements into delivery plans and acceptance reviews.

Financial, Resource & Vendor Management· Establish project financial structures and work breakdown coding in Microsoft Dynamics or the designated financial system; reconcile budgets, actual costs, commitments, forecasts, and estimates to complete.· Monitor financial and schedule variances, evaluate corrective actions, and obtain approval for changes to scope, funding, timelines, or resource commitments.· Secure resource estimates, availability, and management commitments; coordinate onboarding, project orientation, training, tools, access, facilities, and logistical needs.· Coordinate vendor and contractor deliverables, dependencies, milestones, and acceptance with Procurement and technical owners; escalate commercial or delivery issues through appropriate channels.

• Risk, Issue, Dependency & Change Management· Maintain actionable risk, assumption, issue, and dependency (RAID) records with accountable owners, response plans, target dates, and escalation triggers.· Proactively assess delivery risks, cross-project dependencies, resource constraints, and emerging issues; recommend mitigation, contingency, or recovery actions.· Administer project change control, documenting impacts on scope, schedule, cost, quality, benefits, and operational readiness; maintain traceability to approved decisions.