Vice President of Enterprise Project Management

Job Description

VP, Enterprise Project Management | Confidential Employer

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Wintrust, located in Rosemont, Illinois. Wintrust delivers community and commercial banking, specialty finance, and wealth management services through its various bank charters and non-bank businesses. This role is crucial for leading the organization’s project management function, ensuring strategic initiatives are prioritized, governed, and successfully delivered. The Vice President of Enterprise Project Management partners with executive leadership to translate strategy into executable programs, ensuring investments align with business priorities and deliver measurable results.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – Rosemont, Illinois, USA
• Pay: $141000–$190000 yearly
• Team: Small, high-performing, tight-knit group of peers.
• Mission: Lead the organization’s project management function, ensuring strategic initiatives are prioritized, governed, and successfully delivered.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Lead enterprise projects and programs, ensuring delivery aligns with strategic priorities and achieves results on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Partner with executive sponsors and business leaders to prioritize initiatives, manage dependencies, resolve barriers, and drive timely decisions.
• Establish and maintain project governance, delivery standards, and consistent practices for planning, reporting, risk management, and change control.
• Provide executive dashboards and portfolio reporting that highlight delivery progress, financial performance, resource capacity, and risks requiring escalation.
• Lead, coach, and develop project management professionals, fostering accountability, collaboration, employee engagement, and career growth.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Executive leadership in project management with a Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience: 10+ years of related experience; proven success in managing large-scale projects and programs across the Enterprise; experience developing, optimizing, and executing Enterprise-wide project management strategies, methodologies, frameworks, and governance practices; experience in leading and managing teams and driving employee engagement.
• Skills: Project leadership, executive communication and influence, project governance, risk management, change control, portfolio reporting.
• Bonus: PMP Certification; financial services or regulated industry experience; prior ePMO leadership.