Sr Manager, IT Program Management

About This Role

This Senior Project Manager (Sr. Manager) plays a key leadership role, directing the end-to-end planning, execution, and closure of complex, high-impact projects within the Corporate Functions portfolio. This role requires operating with limited direction, serving as the primary liaison between project teams, stakeholders, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design effective processes to analyzing project requirements and constraints
• Guide peers and/or teams to develop effective strategies for successful project execution while managing intangible factors related to project management
• Collaborate across teams, facilitate partnerships, and support cooperative efforts
• Ensure the scope of work aligns with the project objectives and prevent scope creep
• Create a baselined schedule and monitor progress against it, with key milestones aligned to MVP and business outcomes
• Update TPS forecasts, monitor variances in actuals/forecast for spend and capacity
• Identify, analyze, and document risks and response plans; monitor progress of risk response plans
• Identify all internal and external dependencies required to complete project work and actively work to remove project blockers
• Create and leverage a communication plan for each project that considers stakeholder analysis, channels, frequency, meeting cadences, reporting
• Create and maintain all required artifacts for the project to meet CPMO guidelines

Requirements

• Current working experience with Schwab systems and processes
• Ability to collaborate across teams, facilitate partnerships, and support cooperative efforts
• Experience ensuring scope alignment, preventing scope creep, and managing project risks/issues related to scope
• Experience creating and monitoring baselined schedules with key milestones
• Proficiency in updating TPS forecasts, monitoring spend/capacity variances, and managing project finances
• Skill in identifying, analyzing, and documenting risks and response plans, and driving issues to resolution
• Ability to identify and manage internal and external dependencies and remove project blockers
• Aptitude for creating and maintaining project communication plans
• Experience creating and maintaining project artifacts to meet CPMO guidelines

Nice to Have

• Ability to refine strategies and workflows for adaptability
• Skill in synthesizing complex data, managing resources, and developing strategic insights
• Experience providing thought leadership and independently driving strategic initiatives
• Capacity to support peers in technical areas to refine their knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Aptitude for influencing best practices and championing innovative solutions to improve efficiency
• Ability to influence decisions that drive functional success and operational improvements
• Skill in verbal articulation of ideas impactfully and inspiring confidence
• Experience presenting compelling arguments to inspire action
• Ability to set performance-driven goals and drive continuous improvement
• Experience leveraging diverse expertise to develop strategies in cross-functional projects or programs
• Skill in creating clear, persuasive, and professional written documents

Benefits