Senior Project Manager

Neuberger Berman Group LLC

$185K — $225K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 15+ years of experience in project/program management and business analysis
  • Proven success in delivering complex, cross-functional change initiatives
  • Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills
  • Experience in asset management or financial services with a focus on managing change

Responsibilities

  • Lead discovery to define problem statements, objectives, and success metrics
  • Document and manage solution design with subject matter experts
  • Evaluate solution options and assess impacts and risks
  • Execute quality and readiness activities including testing and go-live planning
  • Lead end-to-end project delivery and benefits realization
  • Establish governance frameworks and manage cross-functional teams
  • Drive adoption of changes through communications and trainings

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in office
  • Opportunities for professional development and certification
  • Engagement in diverse cross-functional projects
  • Collaboration with senior and junior partners within the organization
  • Focus on delivering high-impact initiatives across various business lines
Full Job Description
Business Execution Partners is a centralized team of change agents partnering across regions, business lines, and functions to deliver high-impact initiatives. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager, with a solution design focus who can partner well with senior and junior partners, to deliver thoughtful strategic change. Depending on the initiative, you will lead end-to-end execution, lead discovery and requirements, or own both-driving solutions from problem definition through implementation and measurable outcomes.

Initiatives may include software builds, vendor onboarding, process improvement, operating model and organizational change, outsourcing, and other cross-functional programs spanning operations, legal and compliance, risk, sales, and marketing.

Key Responsibilities:

Discovery, analysis, and solution definition
  • Lead discovery to define the problem statement, objectives, scope (in/out), stakeholders, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and success metrics.
  • Elicit, document, and manage solution design, alongside key subject matter experts, industry forums and external consultants when appropriate.
  • Partner with business and technology teams to evaluate solution options (build/buy), assess impacts, risks, dependencies, and operating model/process changes.
  • Define and execute quality and readiness activities including test strategy, test scenarios, UAT planning and coordination, defect triage, and go-live readiness.


Delivery leadership, governance, and execution (Project/Program Management)
  • Lead end-to-end delivery from initiation through implementation and benefits realization, managing scope, plan, timeline, resourcing, dependencies, risks/issues, and outcomes (including budget where applicable).
  • Establish governance and operating cadence (status reporting, steering committees, decision logs, RAID), driving timely escalation and resolution.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and align business and technology work into an integrated delivery roadmap; manage interdependencies across workstreams.
  • Manage vendors when applicable, including milestones, deliverables, and performance against commitments.
  • Drive adoption and change outcomes through communications, training, rollout planning, and post-launch stabilization; measure adoption and results against baseline/targets.
  • Track and report benefits realization and lessons learned to continuously improve delivery outcomes.


Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 15+ years of experience across project/program management and business analysis, with meaningful depth in both disciplines.
  • Demonstrated success delivering complex, cross-functional change initiatives end-to-end - with the ability to multi-task.
  • Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills; ability to influence decisions and drive alignment.
  • Experience in asset management or financial services, working in BAU functional teams, as well as managing change.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience operating in hybrid delivery environments (Agile and Waterfall), adapting approach to initiative type and risk profile.
  • Strong analytical and process skills (process mapping, requirements definition, structured problem solving).
  • Process improvement background (Lean, Six Sigma, BPM).
  • PMP, Agile, or Scrum certifications.

Location: New York City; hybrid with a minimum of three days per week in office.

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Compensation Details

The salary range for this role is $185,000-$225,000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in the job posting location. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, business sector, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, market benchmarking data, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, production, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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