Capital One Principal Associate Project Management 

United States, Virginia, Arlington 

503233817

Principal Associate, Project Management

Role Expectations

You will use your expertise to create, manage and execute vendor management plans to ensure delivery. You will leverage your problem-solving skills to implement and improve contractual controls and governance processes in order to ensure accuracy and vendor compliance.

General Responsibilities:

• Manage vendor relationships and licenses, implementing improved vendor management processes for the Research Operations and XD Tools team

• Conduct contract renewals, with usage and budget review/monitoring

• Establish, monitor, and present Third-Party Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other relevant reporting to ensure business needs are met.

• Monitor vendor product roadmaps, coordinating closely with XD Tool team for updates and feature rollouts

• Partner on RFP/RFI engagements for onboarding new vendors for participant recruiting, research, and other capabilities

• Collaborate/partner cross-functionally with Enterprise Supplier Management, Technology, business stakeholders, and others to provide strategic and tactical support.

• Identify ways to improve and streamline business process

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, internal partners and vendors to ensure expectation understanding and alignment.

• Ensure controls and governance processes are properly documented and maintained.

• Support monthly reporting and analysis presentations (e.g. MBR) and other ad-hoc requests

• Participate and contribute to larger organization meetings, summits, etc.

• Ad-hoc requests and special projects.

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

Project Management Expertise:Foundational knowledge and proficiency in executing all phases of the project management life cycle.

Problem-Solving:Deals with ambiguous situations and can provide a sense of clarity to drive toward a solution. Identifies gaps and seeks to solve them with subject matter experts.

Communication:Demonstrate outstanding communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders across all levels to manage, inform, and influence outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or Military experience

• At least 2 Years of Project Management

• At least 1 year of Vendor Management experience

• Ability to multi-task across multiple pieces of business and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment

• Collaborative and team-oriented with strong interpersonal and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 3 years of Project Management experience

• At least 2 years of vendor management experience

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Strong problem solving and influencing skills

• PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

McLean, VA: $117,300 - $133,900 for Principal Project Manager New York, NY: $128,000 - $146,100 for Principal Project Manager Richmond, VA: $106,700 - $121,700 for Principal Project ManagerThis role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

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