Central Project Manager

Central Project Manager

Corporate Title: Assistant Vice President

MUST be local to New York City, Hybrid Schedule

Salary up to $120k

No Sponsorship Available, No Third-Party Resumes

The Central Project Manager supports enterprise infrastructure initiatives by providing governance, coordination, and portfolio-level project management services across multiple infrastructure towers. This role focuses on project intake, initiation, dependency management, risk oversight, and standardized reporting rather than day-to-day task execution. The position operates within the Infrastructure PMO and ensures projects align with established governance, documentation, and delivery standards.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with infrastructure tower leads, project sponsors, and technical owners to support project intake, qualification, and tiering
• Lead or contribute to the development of standardized initiation artifacts, including project charters, business requirements (where applicable), high-level scope definitions, ROM cost estimates, and initial risk assessments
• Ensure projects meet defined readiness criteria prior to execution, including required documentation, stakeholder alignment, and funding/resource visibility
• Maintain visibility of project-level risks, issues, and dependencies, contributing to infrastructure-wide RAID and change logs
• Support project change assessments by coordinating impact analysis on scope, schedule, cost, and risk, and facilitating required governance approvalsn
• Produce standardized weekly and monthly project and portfolio systems of record
• Present consolidated views of project health, schedule variance, budget posture, and execution risks for leadership consumption. Incorporate stakeholder and leadership feedback into ongoing reporting and project oversight

Non-Negotiable Skills :

• Strong foundational skills, including organizational ability and leadership
  • Able to hold PMO members and stakeholders accountable for key governance activities (e.g., regular updates, project charter creation, change log management, reporting deadlines)
• Experience with reporting tools, including at least basic proficiency in Power BI
• Maintain PMO standards in compliance with internal policies
• Responsible for maintaining and updating the internal Confluence site to ensure accuracy and alignment with processes
• Partner with the team to develop and refine processes
• Drive continuous year-over-year process improvement
• Professional presence: confident in communicating with leadership, presenting to group/tower leads, and demonstrating strong accountability and self-discipline

Biggest Non-Negotiable Skills:

• Must have prior experience in an IT Infrastructure PMO within a regulated industry

Nice to Have:

• Experience in finance
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI and data visualization
• Experience leveraging AI tools in day-to-day work , including collaborating with hiring managers or teams to build or use AI-driven solutions

Types of work styles and personality traits align best with the team and are conducive to success:

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Proactive, self-disciplined, and process-driven
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and engaging with senior stakeholders

Must have 4-year college degree and experience in a financial firm