Ameriprise has an exciting new opportunity for a Project Manager to join our innovative, dynamic Human Resources project management office (PMO) team! This person will apply company and industry standard project management and change management tools and methodologies to develop a comprehensive plan and lead projects of moderate complexity through the project life cycle. This includes obtaining agreement and adoption of project objectives and deliverables by key sponsors, tracking deliverables, and ensuring progress toward completion on time and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the delivery of small to medium scope projects that often represent cross-organizational initiatives. Manage projects within the company's project delivery framework while applying project management and change management methodologies and tools.

• Accountable for project communications and change management, risk assessment and contingency planning and escalation of critical issues to project sponsor/owner, etc.

• Define the overall objectives and key deliverables for the project; identifies and tracks key measures of success. Ensure the development of a comprehensive project plan that incorporates deliverables, accountabilities, and timelines, utilizing the company's project management system (Project Server) for maintaining/tracking project plan and status. Provide regular status reporting on plan progress, as defined by company standards. Some of these activities may be performed under general guidance/direction.

• Provide leadership to project resources in a manner that ensures timely delivery on commitments/tasks in support of broader project deliverables. Align cross-organizational resources to ensure successful delivery of the project. Identifies project resource requirements and works with plan sponsors and project management office/competency center to ensure adequately skilled resources are available to deliver on project commitments.

• Work effectively with business partners, vendors, technology, and project management staff to develop the project agenda and ensure agreement/adoption of project objectives/deliverables by affected constituencies. Provide proactive project communication to project owner. Work to identify cross-organizational interdependencies and ensures appropriate integration to project plan.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• 5 to 7 years proven experience

• Demonstrated understanding of industry-standard project management and change management methodologies and tools

• Proficiency in standard office and project management applications such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Project Workbench

• Demonstrated experience in leading small to medium-scale projects to successful completion and implementation; demonstrates innovation

• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships and effectively communicate and articulate information to others.

• Ability to develop risk mitigation plans in association with assigned projects

• Ability to manage a $5M (annually) program of Annuity Enhancements with monthly releases

• Ability to track status of and successfully deliver on 100 enhancement projects per year

• Ability to work in a hybrid environment with 3 days in the office per week

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial service experience

• Human Resources experience

About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of 2022. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries, advise and manage assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Full timeExemptBusiness Support & OperationsHR Human Resources