What We Are Looking For
Charles River Development, A State Street company, is seeking a Managing Director, Project Management to provide executive leadership for large-scale, multi-year enterprise initiatives. The role requires accountability for delivery outcomes across multiple workstreams, teams, and stakeholders.
Why this job is important to us
This role is essential to ensuring the successful execution and delivery of strategic Front and Middle Office solutions that directly impact our valued clients. The successful candidate will help ensure timely delivery to meet our commitments.
What You Are Responsible For
- Own end-to-end accountability for the delivery of complex, multi-workstream programs from initiation through client go-live.
- Act as overall solution lead on the CRD Product development items.
- Establish delivery strategy, sequencing, governance, and success metrics across the program.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for delivery risks, issues, and cross-organizational dependencies.
Program Delivery and Governance
- Establish and oversee enterprise delivery governance, ensuring alignment with business priorities and regulatory commitments.
- Lead and develop program and project management leaders responsible for day-to-day execution.
- Ensure accurate, executive-level reporting on delivery status, risks, and decision points.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and client scrum teams to define deliverables and ensure delivery commitments are met.
- Build and manage Jira/Confluence sites to track development sprints.
Education And Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Minimum 10 years financial services experience.
- Proven institutional investment operations depth with subject matter expertise in one or more of the following core areas: trading, reconciliations, corporate actions, performance measurement and attribution, derivatives, bank loans and collateral management.
- Process re-engineering certifications and experience (Lean, Six Sigma Black Belt).
- Professional consulting experience is a plus.
- Proven leadership and program management skills.
- Proven effective communication, interpersonal, decision-making and negotiation skills.
- Proven ability to work effectively on global scale with all levels of management.
- Ability to influence and work collaboratively across multiple (matrixed) organizations to reach common goals.
- Organized with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- PMO Certified a plus but not required.
Benefits
We offer competitive medical care, insurance and savings plans, a flexible work program to help you match your needs, and a wealth of development programs and educational support to help you reach your full potential.
Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility
We believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality.
Equal Opportunity Employer
State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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