First Merchants Corporation

Project Manager

• Manage projects through effective initiation, planning, execution and closure to delivering with quality, speed and value.
• Own and drive successful large-scale project execution with the ability to work simultaneously on multiple projects.
• Lead project teams to ensure all projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget.
• Provide end-to-end project management for complex projects and/or programs.
• Guide the project team through tradeoff, risk-based decisions involving project scope, schedule and costs.
• Ensure organizational needs for the execution and implementation of solutions are documented.
• Track project progress, monitor and modify project schedules and provide status updates to Senior and Executive Management.
• Know when escalation is required, and prepare data-based recommendations for management action.
• Coach and mentor junior PMO project managers and functional project leads.
• Utilize project management software to facilitate the planning, organization and tracking of project activities across the bank.

Senior Project Manager

Analyst

• Eliciting needs of the stakeholders
• Analyzing business requirements
• Identifying business opportunities
• Preparing documentation
• Evaluating risk for assigned applications
• Ensuring assigned applications work reliably for the business.
• Maintaining, troubleshooting, and supporting systems daily.
• Performing business process review and analyses to drive efficiency and utilization gains.
• Actively seeking ways to improve the client experience.
• Evaluating product offerings and potential enhancements, making recommendations to the team
• Leading and/or participating in projects (system upgrades, bank integrations, etc.)
• Collaborating with other departments for implementation proposals
• Maintaining reporting systems for actionable information
• Managing Disaster Recovery plans and models.
• Ensuring all application changes follow standard processes with minimal exceptions.

Senior Project Manager

Senior Applications Analyst