Purpose/Objective: The Strategic Project Manager is a key role within
the Strategic Projects Management Office responsible for delivering
complex and strategic projects on time, on budget, and that the original
business value is realized. This role requires a project management
professional with an understanding of Banking Operations and IT. The
Strategic Project Manager will provide overall direction and project
leadership by defining the scope, setting critical successful factors,
assigning necessary resources, assessing, and controlling risk,
communicating with stakeholders, executing against an agreed plan,
delivering the technology, product, or service, and assessing the
success of the project overall. Key Accountabilities: Function as a
strategic partner to senior stakeholders to advance business topics
pertaining to strategy. Support strategic initiative development from
ideation through implementation pertaining to key strategic initiatives,
including project management responsibilities, as needed. Facilitate the
definition of project missions, goals, tasks, and resource requirements
for strategic projects. Participate in the management of the strategic
project portfolio, ensuring on-time, to-budget, and to-specification
delivery of prioritized IT initiatives aligned with business priorities.
Build and maintain strong relationships with business representatives
and stakeholders. Understand who the client is and what their needs are.
Provide realistic expectations and help establish specific customer
satisfaction standards and actively monitor client satisfaction. Enhance
project management knowledge, skills, tools and techniques, including
scope definition, requirements capture, plan development, risk
management, effective communication, decision making, and problem
solving. Understand Corporate and Department goals and translate into
effective enterprise initiatives, services and capabilities. Establish
robust performance measurement frameworks including key performance
indicators, milestones, and any other relevant metrics. Monitor project
progress and performance, identifying issues, and opportunities for
improvement. Prepare executive and board level presentations and project
status reports to executive leadership providing recommendations for
course corrections as needed. Ensures compliance Education: Minimum
Bachelor?s degree or equivalent work experience required MBA or PMI-PMP
preferred Experience: 8 years? experience managing complex strategic
projects or initiatives across the banking or consulting industry
Demonstrated experience and understanding of the project lifecycle,
defining, planning, controlling, monitoring executing, and familiarity
with established project management tools and techniques Strong
experience working with waterfall and agile methodologies Experience
working with third party vendors / implementation providers and
navigating through SOW in partnership with Procurement, Legal, and
Third-Party Risk Management Ability to present complex data analysis in
a simplified manner to drive action and results Skills & Knowledge:
Process-oriented; analytical, quality-oriented thought process and
execution Excellent written, communications and presentation skills
Ability to create business cases with supporting analysis and prepare
board and executive level presentations Knowledge in analyzing and
creating Business Requirements, Project Plans, Project Schedules, and
associated project materials Hands-on experience with tools relating to
project management and portfolio reporting (Microsoft Project,
collaboration software, etc.) ServiceNow knowledge a plus Project
Server, Excel, PowerPoint skills required Ability to work cooperatively
and effectively with all levels of staff Agile and amenable to change
and shifting priorities Works well under tight timelines without
sacrificing quality of work