Program Manager

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Project/Program Manager in Charlotte, NC, New York / Newark / Jersey City, NY-NJ; Dallas / Fort Worth / Arlington, TX, or Minneapolis / St. Paul / Bloomington, MN (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• This is a highly experienced program management professional with strong experience in cloud transformation, infrastructure buildout, executive communications, and Agile tools expertise for highly complex, enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Will act as a Business Execution Leader to implement cloud technologies, migrate/modernized LOB applications, and build the required infrastructure in four new data centers to support the WF strategy to move to cloud.
• Will also strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to leadership.
• This role will also take over responsibilities for a second DISP Program Manager vacancy due to transition away from DISP due to MTL of WXPS. Also, Change Delivery demand exceed capacity; and we cannot effectively support new requests (e.g., Always On, Accelerate MIM, CCP, and Cloud).

What You Will Be Doing

• Responsible for leading project teams and managing all activities in a project life-cycle (initiation planning, executing/controlling, and closing) associated with high visibility projects that are long-term, across one or more lines of business and carry a substantial impact to the relevant businesses.
• Interacts with senior leadership and major stakeholders to establish strategic plans and objectives for programs or projects.
• Consults with business partners to clarify and define complex project requirements, budgets and business cases, including statements of work.
• Creates and delivers presentations on program or project goals and plans, including progress reports.
• Responsible for end-to-end program or project management, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end.
• Develops and implements program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics.
• Lead cross functional teams to strategize, plan, and execute a variety of programs, services and initiatives.
• Drive accountability for assigned initiatives, limit risk exposure, and create efficiencies as appropriate.
• Review strategic approaches and effectiveness of support function and business performance.
• Perform assessments through fact finding and data requiring creative approaches to solving complex issues and develop appropriate solutions or recommendations.
• Make decisions in highly complex and multifaceted situations requiring solid understanding of business group's functional area or products, facilitate decision making and issue resolution, and support implementation of developed solutions and plans.
• Collaborate and consult with members of the Business Execution team and team leaders to drive strategic initiatives.
• Influence, guide and lead less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group.