Project Manager IV

What You'll Do

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our Retirement and Income Solutions (RIS) team. In this role, you'll organize and lead medium to large initiatives in alignment with strategic goals tied to our Principal Custody Solutions area.

This will be achieved by acting as a consultant for priority projects, including providing an immediate positive impact to a project as well as project recovery for Principal's enterprise strategy and the RIS strategy!

Contribute to the organization learning by leading, mentoring, and coaching less experienced project managers, developing and sharing best practices, and taking action to facilitate improvements.

Conduct reviews to regularly compare results against objectives. Build and sustain relationships through motivation, team building, influence, and empowerment.

Implement strategies to handle organizational change and effectively lead the impact on the culture and individuals involved.

May formally lead project managers or project analysts.

• Demonstrate effective stakeholder management. Provide communication for intended audiences including timely risk awareness, progress updates, and results to the stakeholders and business unit(s).
• Lead activities with outside vendors and suppliers to ensure timely delivery and expected results of systems and services.

Proactively manage the vendor relationship. Participate in negotiations, procurement, and contract administration activities.

• Lead complex, high-risk, high-visibility, strategically aligned initiatives to successful completion. Apply the appropriate project management methodology.
• Identify and manage risks and issues. Leverage the team to research, negotiate, and facilitate the making of cost-effective and timely decisions for meeting objectives.

Engage and partner with leaders. Balance competing demands.

Apply problem-solving techniques to present clear problem definition and provide potential solutions and workarounds with impacts, including cost / benefit analysis.

Partner with leaders to get consensus on direction.

Operating at the intersection of financial services and technology, Principal builds financial tools that help our customers live better lives.

We take pride in being a purpose-led firm, motivated by our mission to make financial security accessible to all. Our mission, integrity, and customer focus have made us a trusted leader for more than 140 years.

As Principal continues to modernize its systems, this role will offer you an exciting opportunity to build solutions that will directly impact our long-term strategy and tech stack, all while ensuring that our products are robust, scalable, and secure!

Who You Are

• This level of knowledge and proficiency is generally acquired through a combination of a college degree or equivalent, plus a minimum of 6+ of project related or leadership experience in business and technology projects with at least 4 of the 6+ years including direct responsibility for project management / leadership
• Demonstrable skills, understanding, and application of project methodologies are essential, including quality and risk control, communication, and HR management and integration
• Excellent leadership, communication, planning, decision making, and negotiation skills
• Ability to work with people at all levels, including external consultants and vendors, and able to influence others without formal authority
• Proven ability to build and maintain relationships and facilitate collaboration and communication
• Must be results oriented and able to adapt and deal with ambiguous situations and manage expectations
• Ability to execute effectively in matrix management environment
• Sound knowledge of information technology and applications to discover opportunities for process improvement
• Advanced knowledge of PC and project planning oriented software
• Broad understanding of products and services affecting the project(s)
• Possess a solid understanding of negotiation and procurement processes for purchase of professional services and / or products
• May be on-call for job responsibilities
• Minimal travel may be required, including overnight stays
• May be required to become an associated person of Principal Securities, Inc., which requires fingerprinting and a full background check.

Skills That Will Help You Stand Out

• Trust & custody business and systems
• Retirement / financial services industry experience
• Brokerage operations
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Salary Range Information

Salary ranges below reflect targeted base salaries. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program.

Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance.

Actual compensation for all roles will be based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and / or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Salary Range (Non-Exempt expressed as hourly; Exempt expressed as yearly)

$95200 - $182400 / year

Time Off Program

Flexible Time Off (FTO) is provided to salaried (exempt) employees and provides the opportunity to take time away from the office with pay for vacation, personal or short-term illness.

Employees don't accrue a bank of time off under FTO and there is no set number of days provided.

Pension Eligible

Additional Information

Our Engineering Culture

Through our product-driven Agile / Lean DevOps environment, we've fostered a culture of innovation and experimentation across our development teams.

As a customer-focused organization, we work closely with our end users and product owners to understand and rapidly respond to emerging business needs.

Collaboration is embedded into everything we do - from the products we develop to the quality service we provide. We're driven by the belief that diversity of thought, background, and perspective is critical to creating the best products and experiences for our customers.

Work Environments

This role offers in-office, hybrid (blending at least three office days in a typical workweek), and remote work arrangements (only if residing more than 30 miles from Des Moines, IA, or Charlotte, NC).

You'll work with your leader to figure out which option may align best based on several factors.

Work Authorization / Sponsorship

At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States.

This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO : F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For additional information around work authorization needs please use the following links.

Nonimmigrant Workers and Green Card for Employment-Based Immigrants

Investment Code of Ethics

For Principal Asset Management positions, you'll need to follow an Investment Code of Ethics related to personal and business conduct as well as personal trading activities for you and members of your household.

These same requirements may also apply to other positions across the organization.

Experience Principal

At Principal, we value connecting on both a personal and professional level. Together, we're imagining a more purpose-led future for financial services - and that starts with you.

Our success depends on the unique experiences, backgrounds, and talents of our employees. And we support our employees the same way we support our customers : with comprehensive, competitive benefit offerings crafted to protect their physical, financial, and social well-being.

Check out our careers site to learn more about our purpose, values and benefits.

Principal is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Posting Window

We will accept applications for 3 full days following the Original Posting Date, after which the posting may remain open or be removed based upon applications received.

If we choose to post the job again, we will accept additional applications for at least 1 full day following the Most Recently Posted Date.

Please submit applications in a timely manner as there is no guarantee the posting will be available beyond the applicable deadline.

Original Posting Date

10 / 31 / 2024

Most Recently Posted Date

10 / 31 / 2024

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