About the Role
As a Project Manager, you will be accountable for project planning, execution, implementation, readiness, monitoring, and reporting for small to medium-sized projects. You will partner with business sponsors, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver quality solutions that address business needs and drive measurable value. This role requires strong project management capabilities, financial acumen, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to navigate competing priorities in a highly matrixed environment.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary project management lead for small to medium-sized projects with moderate complexity, limited risk, and manageable scope changes.
- Drive project execution and delivery to achieve business objectives, expected benefits, and stakeholder outcomes.
- Develop, manage, monitor, and report on project plans, schedules, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall project health.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities while maintaining focus on business value and successful outcomes.
- Collaborate with business sponsors and stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of project goals, scope, risks, and expected benefits.
- Develop and maintain project budgets, forecasts, actuals, and funding plans while providing accurate project estimates.
- Monitor project financials and understand cost drivers to ensure efficient use of resources and budget adherence.
- Secure, maintain, and actively manage resource plans to support delivery objectives.
- Facilitate effective communication across project teams, leadership, and business partners.
- Balance competing requirements and interests while encouraging collaboration and achieving mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Identify and remove obstacles that may impede project progress or team success.
- Hold project teams accountable for delivering high-value business outcomes.
- Facilitate lessons learned activities and promote knowledge retention for future project success.
- Build strong partnerships and relationships across the enterprise, including with senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Establish credibility as a trusted advisor and leader among project teams, customers, and stakeholders.
- Continuously monitor projects against approved business cases to support benefit realization.
- Collaborate across impacted business and technology teams to drive successful project results.
- Identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and enhance delivery effectiveness.
- Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to evaluate solutions and drive continuous improvement.
- Adhere to and promote Voya delivery methodologies, standards, tools, and best practices.
- Support the growth and development of the project management community through coaching and mentoring opportunities.
- Manage vendor relationships as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or equivalent work experience in a related field.
- Demonstrated experience (typically 1–3 years) managing small to medium-sized projects with defined scope, budget, and delivery goals.
- Proven ability to apply project management methodologies, tools, techniques, and best practices.
- Solid project management financial acumen with experience managing budgets, forecasts, and project funding.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Experience working within highly matrixed teams and environments.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and make informed decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and build consensus across diverse groups.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver under tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
- Ability to adapt quickly to changing business needs, environments, and stakeholder expectations.
- Experience interacting with and influencing senior leadership.
- Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills.
- Experience promoting organizational change and supporting change adoption initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo and develop innovative solutions.
- Experience identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities.
- Exposure to basic program management concepts and practices.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or supporting the development of project management peers.
- Experience managing third-party vendors and external partners.
- Continuous learning mindset with a strong desire to understand business processes, strategies, and organizational goals.
Skills
- Customer Focused
- Critical Thinking
- Team Mentality
- Business Acumen
- Learning Agility
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Fully remote
Experience Level
- 1-3 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000 - $105,000
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
About the Company
- Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.
- We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work.
- Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
Equal Opportunity
- Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
- Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
