Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Project Manage in Des Moines, IA or Charlotte, NC (Hybrid).
Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.
Contract Duration: 9 Months + extensions/conversion to FTE
Seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead wave-based migrations as part of a high-profile Contact Center Modernization Initiative—one of the largest and most strategic programs at the company. This multi-year effort aims to consolidate contact center applications and transition customer-facing agents to a modern cloud platform by the end of 2027.
Required Skills & Experience
- 7+ years of Project Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
- Extensive experience in project management, change delivery, and change management within the financial services industry.
- Strong understanding of contact center operations and consumer banking.
- Proven ability to manage projects using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
- Familiarity with technology integrations impacting agent performance and scheduling.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment with shifting priorities.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience with cloud platform migrations, especially involving customer service agents.
- Experience with Monday.com or similar project management tools.
- Understanding of cloud technologies and their impact on contact center functionality.
What You Will Be Doing
- Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Project Management.
- Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking.
- Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Project Management business solutions.
- Strategically engage with client personnel.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of wave migrations, from discovery and development through deployment.
- Collaborate with business unit leaders and contact center partners to ensure successful migration and adoption.
- Influence executive stakeholders to prioritize and support migration efforts.
- Coordinate with a team of 16 project managers, ensuring alignment and shared learnings across the initiative.
- Manage complex scheduling demands, including potential overtime and on-site presence during critical migration phases.
- Drive change management and delivery strategies tailored to contact center operations and cloud platform transitions.
- Oversee integration of technologies such as IVR systems and agent scheduling tools.