Project Manager

About the role

At Cambridge Savings Bank, our purpose is to have a positive impact on our customers, employees, and community's financial well-being. The Project Manager leads and delivers strategic, operational, digital, regulatory, and merger-related initiatives across the Bank, ensuring projects are successfully completed on time, within scope, within budget, and in accordance with regulatory and governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent projects supporting strategic and operational objectives.
• Develop and maintain project charters, work plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and status reporting in accordance with organizational standards.
• Facilitate project meetings, steering committees, and executive updates.
• Manage project scope and ensure alignment with business requirements and strategic goals.
• Drive project execution through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Partner with project sponsors, business leaders, and subject matter experts to define objectives and success criteria.
• Communicate project status, milestones, risks, issues, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Identify, assess, and manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Ensure projects comply with bank policies, regulatory requirements, audit expectations, and governance standards.
• Escalate significant risks and issues to appropriate stakeholders and governance committees.
• Coordinate with third-party vendors and implementation partners; monitor vendor deliverables, timelines, and contractual obligations.
• Support system implementations, digital banking initiatives, process improvements, and technology modernization efforts.
• Track project performance using established PMO methodologies and tools; prepare executive-level dashboards and reporting.
• Manage project documentation and maintain accurate project records.
• Measure project outcomes and support post-implementation benefit realization reviews.
• Promote project management best practices throughout the organization; contribute to PMO standards, templates, methodologies, and governance processes.
• Participate in lessons-learned and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform additional duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field.
• PMP, CAPM, Agile/Scrum, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
• 5+ years of project management experience.
• Banking, financial services, fintech, or regulated industry experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving operations, digital banking, technology, compliance, or business process transformation.
• Experience managing third-party vendors and implementation partners.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and governance frameworks.
• Knowledge of banking operations, risk management, compliance, and regulatory expectations is a plus.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and communication abilities.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and lead without direct authority.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Planner, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and other project/portfolio management tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Pay

The reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $93,600 to $125,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on the successful candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for full-time roles, including healthcare, parental planning, and mental health benefits.
• Performance bonus opportunities.
• 401(k) plan and match.
• Flexible time off.

About Cambridge Savings Bank

Cambridge Savings Bank is a full-service banking institution with over $7 billion in assets. As a mutual bank, CSB is committed to improving the quality of life of our employees, customers, and the communities we serve. One of the oldest and largest community banks in Massachusetts, Cambridge Savings Bank offers a full line of individual and business banking services across a robust Massachusetts-based branch network and through digital banking solutions for commercial, small business, and consumer customers.