Project Manager Strategic Initiatives

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At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. We’re a purpose-driven company, and our beliefs are the foundation of how we conduct business every day. We’re guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Collectively, these values inspire us to work together as One Team with our customers at the center of everything we do, and to take care of ourselves, each other, and the communities in which we live and work. We challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. Join us as we enable the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of millions of people around the world.

 

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Job Description Summary:

At PayPal, the Risk and Platforms organization encompasses the front-line risk, core platforms, and entity management and oversight teams. Within Risk and Platforms, the Global Entity Management and Oversight (GEM&O) team serves as the consolidated second line of defense for the company, oversees international legal entities, and is responsible for the development and maintenance of a governance infrastructure to meet business priorities and regulatory expectations in all the jurisdictions in which PayPal does business.

The Risk and Platforms Project Management Office (PMO) reports into the leadership of the GEM&O team and is responsible for initiatives supporting PayPal’s risk, compliance, and regulatory strategies and obligations. This includes a portfolio of Risk and Platforms strategic initiatives, targeted at enabling the continued growth and evolution of PayPal and delivery of the company’s strategic objectives. Initiatives will typically span multiple teams and geographic locations globally.

As a Project Manager for Strategic Initiatives, you are responsible for coordinating project resources engaged with select initiatives within a broader portfolio. The project manager is a primary resource to project-related steering committees and reports to the Sr. Portfolio Program Manager of a functional area portfolio. The position is responsible for cross-functional engagement and reporting on the state and performance of specific projects.

This role supports PMO leadership in their efforts at overseeing, managing programs and projects across the entire life cycle of Strategic Initiatives to optimally achieve enterprise goals and objectives.

Job Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drives the coordinated management of large, complex programs over a finite period to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Ensures the timely delivery of business requirements and the efficient use of resources.
• Creates and maintains relationships with business and technology stakeholders to facilitate timely and accurate delivery, identification of risks, issues and dependencies, and trade-off discussions to manage resource constraints.
• Program/project execution:
  • Manages program and project-level decomposition of work across multiple stakeholders and teams, working across organizational boundaries to define portfolio and program interdependencies and plans.
  • Develops detailed project plans, including setting targets for milestones, and adjusting schedules and targets on the project as needed.
  • Leads planning sessions, monitors and tracks progress, and conducts regular reviews at the program and project level, to demonstrate strong oversight. Manages changes using appropriate governance techniques.
  • Identifies, tracks, and prioritizes program-level risks, issues, and dependencies, proactively addressing impediments and actively collaborating with leaders to resolve roadblocks and enable successful execution, leveraging lessons learned from prior experience and working to address and mitigate systemic issues.
  • Ensures projects meet or exceed performance targets, documenting the accurate status of the program, projects within the program(s), or external projects that have dependencies.  Ensures successful completion of program exit criteria.
  • Communicates and collaborates with stakeholders, to provide executive-level reporting, communications, and presentations on progress against projects outcomes, and communicates timely and accurate status to appropriate levels and stakeholders.
  • Makes effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with a program or project.
  • Gains an understanding of the functional area supported, including their purpose, business priorities, and objectives, to effectively support discussions/decisions around prioritization and delivery challenges.
  • Accepts responsibility for deliverables and timeline commitments.

Expected Behaviors:

• Quickly builds trust and fosters relationships with senior leaders, stakeholders, and partners. 
• Ensures adherence to plans and expectations, holds teams and individuals accountable for milestones and deliverables, and escalates to leadership when needed.
• Ensures appropriate stakeholders are identified and engaged and that plans adequately address the requirements, including accurately depicting the activities and timing related to processes, people, systems, and external events.
• Follows established change management processes and ensures appropriate documentation is maintained to evidence completion.
• Operates with strong integrity and the ability to handle projects of a sensitive and confidential nature.

Qualifications:

• Theoretical and practical knowledge of project management processes, workflows, and terminology, including understanding of the Project Management Institute (PMI) framework.

• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Ability to influence outcomes and minimize and address conflict.

• Ability to work across multiple lines of business managing large scale, complex project initiatives and various project elements simultaneously, with high attention to detail and accuracy, meeting deadlines despite competing priorities.
• Possesses solid analytical, problem solving, and critical / creative thinking skills.
• Strong communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills, and ability to build and maintain relationships with peers and business support partners.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills with experience presenting to senior leaders and key stakeholders
• Ability to operate in ambiguous environments and exhibit agility in navigating from current state to proposed solutions.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office; knowledge of Clarizen is beneficial.
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in large-scale project management.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• PMP® certification (including PGMP or PMI-RMP) is preferred but not required.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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For more than 20 years, PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 400 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying, or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].