Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for managing projects that drive operational excellence. Working with internal and external stakeholders, this position will be responsible for setting the framework required to meet project objectives. The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring projects are completed on-time and within budget.

The Project Manager reports to the Vice President of Program Management. This position works closely with key business partners and leadership, vendors and the balance of the organization to build strong working relationships.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage assigned projects throughout the project lifecycle that support new business initiatives including systems/technology integration; regulatory and legal requirements; testing plans; training; policies and procedures and reporting requirements
• Maintain project documentation including project scope, project management plan documents, project schedule, budget, and change requests
• Guide the business management team throughout the project cycle
• Monitor project budgets and schedules and address any variances
• Manage internal and external vendors responsible for delivering technology and business process services, including participating in contract negotiations, establishing and monitoring service delivery/productivity/quality standards, setting priorities and analyzing costs as required
• Regularly prepare executive updates for project updates to keep leadership and management team informed of progress and roadblocks

Qualifications

Required:

• Leadership Skills – self-starting leader with proven ability to see the vision and drive frequent and continual organizational change and improvement to accomplish world-class service and superior quality; proven ability to formulate and execute strategic and tactical organizational and operational plans to improve operational performance and support corporate goals
• Results Oriented – track record of delivering quantifiable results to the organization (i.e. analyze opportunities/risks, develop and execute related action plans and deliver results), highly organized and disciplined
• Process Management Skills – proven ability to create process maps that document current and future state business practices
• Operations Management Skills – proven ability to identify, collect and analyze operations performance data, market research data, and other related data to improve performance
• Expertise at consensus and relationship building with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent written, presentation and oral communication skills
• Results Oriented – track record of delivering quantifiable results to the organization

Desired:

• A Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or a related field required
• PMP certification and/or training preferred
• Experience managing large-scale projects and service providers
• Operational experience in a mortgage operations environment preferred

RoundPoint’s Employee Value Proposition:
A team where quality is required, hard work is rewarded, and wins happen.

Our mission is to serve our homeowners and all of their homeownership needs. We do this by embracing challenges, executing with excellence, and fostering a positive work culture that encourages personal and professional growth. We are on the fast track to becoming the premier marketplace for all things home, and the National Mortgage News and Best Companies Group just named us one of 2019’s Best Mortgage Companies to Work For! Without a doubt, RoundPointers are what make this company a great place to work! That’s why we hire individuals who share our core values: Energy, Ethics, Execution, Everyone, and Earn it!

As a RoundPointer, we will empower you to innovate, provide meaningful solutions, set goals and crush them, play hard, and give back to the community! Our secret sauce is our mantra, All In. All Win. Together, we can achieve great things!

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job:

• The employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee is required to sit for extended periods of time and is occasionally required to stand and walk.
• The employee must regularly use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects and is regularly required to reach with hands and arms; the employee may occasionally climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate, and no extreme conditions are present.