VP Enterprise Project Managment
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Lead Enterprise Transformation at Achieva Credit Union
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Position Summary:
The Vice President (VP), Enterprise Project Management, strategically leads the Project Management Office (PMO) and advances Achieva Credit Union's ability to execute organizational priorities, leverages technology, drives meaningful change, and delivers measurable business outcomes. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role leads the evolution of the PMO into a strategic enterprise capability that strengthens prioritization, business ownership, accountability, and organizational execution.
While most initiatives involve technology, this position requires a strong technology background and experience leading complex technology-driven initiatives. The VP must understand how technology, business processes, people, and organizational strategy intersect and be capable of evaluating opportunities, challenging assumptions, identifying risks, and helping shape effective solutions.
The VP serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, bringing external perspective, innovative thinking, and practical recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness. Success requires exceptional relationship-building skills, executive presence, sound judgement, and the confidence to constructively challenge leaders, navigate competing priorities, and establish accountability across all levels of the organization.
This role fundamentally focuses on business transformation. The VP partners closely with executive leadership, business owners, and technology leaders to ensure projects are not simply technology implementations, but opportunities to modernize business processes, improve operational efficiency, strengthen accountability, and transform how Achieva operates. This leader challenges traditional ways of working, promotes business ownership of outcomes, and ensures organizational change and adoption are integrated into project success. Success requires exceptional relationship-building skills, sound judgment, executive presence, and the confidence to constructively challenge leaders, navigate competing priorities, and establish accountability across all levels of the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Organizational Transformation
While most initiatives involve technology, this position requires a strong technology background and experience leading complex technology-driven initiatives. The VP must understand how technology, business processes, people, and organizational strategy intersect and be capable of evaluating opportunities, challenging assumptions, identifying risks, and helping shape effective solutions.
The VP serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, bringing external perspective, innovative thinking, and practical recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness. Success requires exceptional relationship-building skills, executive presence, sound judgement, and the confidence to constructively challenge leaders, navigate competing priorities, and establish accountability across all levels of the organization.
This role fundamentally focuses on business transformation. The VP partners closely with executive leadership, business owners, and technology leaders to ensure projects are not simply technology implementations, but opportunities to modernize business processes, improve operational efficiency, strengthen accountability, and transform how Achieva operates. This leader challenges traditional ways of working, promotes business ownership of outcomes, and ensures organizational change and adoption are integrated into project success. Success requires exceptional relationship-building skills, sound judgment, executive presence, and the confidence to constructively challenge leaders, navigate competing priorities, and establish accountability across all levels of the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Organizational Transformation
- Lead the evolution of the PMO, establishing a modern, practical approach to project and portfolio management that supports Achieva’s strategic direction.
- Partner with executive leadership to translate organizational priorities into actionable initiatives with clear ownership, measurable outcomes, and defined accountability.
- Drive a cultural shift toward business-led initiatives, ensuring business owners actively define requirements, make decisions, commit resources, and own operational readiness and results.
- Serve as a strategic advisor and change leader, identifying opportunities to improve how Achieva plans, prioritizes, executes, and adopts organizational change.
- Champion business process transformation through strategic initiatives, challenging existing practices and partnering with business leaders to redesign workflows, eliminate inefficiencies, leverage technology effectively, and achieve meaningful operational improvements and improve member experience.
- Establish the expectations that business leaders own the process, decisions, operational readiness, and outcomes associated with their initiatives, while Technology serves as a strategic partner in delivering enabling solutions.
- Leverage technology leadership experience and knowledge to identify opportunities for business improvement and transformation.
Enterprise Portfolio Management, Strategic Alignment & Execution
- Partner with Executive Leadership to translate organizational strategy into project priorities, portfolio investments, and measurable business outcomes.
- Lead enterprise project intake, prioritization, portfolio governance, and resource planning, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, organizational capacity, regulatory compliance, and member experience goals.
- Provide strategic oversight of complex, high-impact initiatives, ensuring risks, dependencies, competing priorities, and resource constraints are proactively managed.
- Establish clear accountability for executive sponsors, business owners, project managers, Technology teams, and other stakeholders, ensuring ownership of decisions, deliverables, and business outcomes.
- Champion business process transformation through strategic initiatives, challenging existing practices and ensuring projects drive operational improvements rather than simply implementing technology or completing deliverables.
- Partner with business and Technology leaders to ensure business requirements, process redesign, technical delivery, implementation readiness, and organizational adoption are effectively coordinated.
- Drive timely decisions, remove organizational barriers, and hold stakeholders accountable for commitments, escalating issues when necessary to maintain strategic momentum.
- Provide executive leadership with meaningful portfolio visibility, performance measures, and recommendations that support informed decisions, prioritization, and accountability.
- Partner with Technology leadership to understand technical complexity, architecture considerations, resource requirements, and delivery risks while ensuring business owners remain accountable for business decisions and outcomes.
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, mentor, coach, and develop high-performing PMO team, establishing clear performance expectations and a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Establish a culture of shared accountability across the organization, building strong relationships while confidently challenging assumptions, addressing missed commitments, and holding executive sponsors, business owners, and project teams accountable for decisions, deliverables, and outcomes.
- Facilitate difficult conversations, resolve conflicts, and influence decisions across departments and leadership levels.
- Serve as a bridge between business and Technology leaders, translating business objectives and technical considerations into a shared understanding, practical decisions, and coordinated execution.
- Strengthen organizational project management capabilities through coaching, practical governance, and consistent execution standards.
- Support the professional growth of team members through coaching, development planning, training, and feedback.
- Build project management competencies and leadership capabilities across the PMO team, contract project managers and within business units.
Governance, Risk & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and continuously improve scalable project management methodologies, tools, processes, and performance measures.
- Promote effective change management, stakeholder engagement, testing, implementation readiness, and adoption.
- Ensure appropriate project governance, risk management, documentation, and compliance with applicable organizational and regulatory requirements.
- Develop mitigation strategies and escalate concerns appropriately.
- Ensure project documentation and governance records meet retention, audit, and compliance standards.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Information Security teams as needed.
- Evaluate portfolio and PMO performance, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, execution discipline, and organizational effectiveness.
- Capture and institutionalize lessons learned and best practices.
Organizational Engagement
- Represent the credit union with professionalism and courtesy in all interactions.
- Uphold the highest ethical standards in all interactions and responsibilities.
- Represent and uphold Achieva’s Strategic Compass and the Achieva Brand Frame.
- Champion initiatives that position the credit union as a top employer through leadership, integrity and service excellence.
- Participate in annual training or as required by BSA and the Privacy Act.
- Perform other essential functions as needed or assigned.
- Travel may be required on occasion.
- Work flexible hours including weekends and holidays to meet member and business demands.
Requirements:
Education and Experience
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, project management, information technology, finance, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years’ progressive project, program, or portfolio management experience and vendor management.
- 5+ years’ leadership experience managing teams and complex organizational initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience building, transforming, or maturing a Project Management Office.
- Experience leading enterprise-wide strategic initiatives involving multiple business units.
- Experience with project portfolio management, governance frameworks, resource planning, and organizational change management.
- Financial institution experience strongly preferred.
Certifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) required.
- Program Management Professional (PgMP), Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP), Agile, Lean Six Sigma, Change Management, or related certifications preferred.
Skills and Attributes
- Strategic leadership and business acumen.
- Strong project, program, and portfolio management expertise.
- Executive presence and ability to influence across all organizational levels.
- Strong governance, prioritization, and decision-making capabilities.
- Exceptional coaching, mentoring, and people leadership skills.
- Organizational change management knowledge and experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to evaluate project metrics, portfolio performance, and organizational impact.
- Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Financial management and resource planning experience.
- Risk management and issue resolution expertise.
- Strong relationship-building and collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, project management platforms, and portfolio reporting tools.
- High emotional intelligence and conflict resolution skills
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
Achieva Credit Union is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
This role operates in a flexible environment and may include hybrid work, in-field visits, and time in an office setting at Corporate Headquarter and/or Achieva Branch. The role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and virtual meeting platforms. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and communicate effectively via phone, video, and electronic messaging. The position may require extended periods of sitting or standing and occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds. Occasional travel to company offices or events may be required.
EEO Statement:
Achieva Credit Union is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status. Achieva participates in E-Verify.
Achieva Credit Union is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
This role operates in a flexible environment and may include hybrid work, in-field visits, and time in an office setting at Corporate Headquarter and/or Achieva Branch. The role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and virtual meeting platforms. The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and communicate effectively via phone, video, and electronic messaging. The position may require extended periods of sitting or standing and occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds. Occasional travel to company offices or events may be required.
EEO Statement:
Achieva Credit Union is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status. Achieva participates in E-Verify.
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