: Business Strategy & Initiative Project / Program Manager
About The Position
The Business Strategy & Initiative Project Manager will be reporting to the Private Bank Strategy, Controls & Transformation Executive and serve as a member of an integrated leadership team dedicated to executing critical initiatives. The role supports the PB Supervision and Controls team by leading and managing complex initiatives while also driving strategic thinking to identify innovative, practical solutions to business challenges. In addition to executing projects, this role is expected to proactively assess opportunities, challenge conventional approaches, and introduce forward-thinking ideas that enhance efficiency, scalability, and risk reduction. In addition to executing projects, this role is expected to leverage emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify innovative, scalable solutions. The candidate will proactively assess opportunities to apply AI and data-driven approaches to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and risk management across initiatives. The position requires strong project management and initiatives experience. Successful candidate will have the ability to coordinate, influence, and collaborate closely with all levels of the organization. Strong communication and understanding of Private Bank platforms / processes and regulatory project management will be helpful in effectively navigating the organization and influencing partners to achieve outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years managing formal projects / programs (relevant project / program / change management work experience)
- Experience with and strong knowledge of business process management methodology
- Strong and effective communication and presentations skills, verbal and written.
- Solutions oriented - utilize critical thinking skills / business & technical acumen and resources to make sound business decisions and reduce risk.
- Strong strategic mindset with the ability to connect project execution to broader business objectives and long-term outcomes.
- Proven ability to think creatively and challenge the status quo to develop innovative solutions.
- Advanced problem-solving skills, leveraging both analytical rigor and business intuition to address complex challenges.
- Ability to operate at both a strategic and tactical level—translating vision into execution.
- A team player, high on collaboration and partnership with peers, partners, and stakeholders
- Strategic thinking with strong influencing and persuasive skills, ability to obtaining favorable outcomes.
- Effective navigation skill to source required information by engaging with relevant stakeholders.
- Ability to manage various project timelines with multiple competing priorities with tight deadlines while working in a flexible environment.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering results.
- Proficient Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
- Strong attention to details and organizational skills
- Self-starter with excellent anticipation skills, problem solving; follow-up.
- Demonstrate dependability and ability to act with a sense of urgency.
- Ability to engage and collaborate with people in all levels of the organization.
- Ability to work well under pressure in a fast paced / complex environment, adapt to unexpected events, prioritize and multi-task in a deadline driven environment.
Nice To Haves
- Understanding of Private Bank platforms / processes and regulatory project management will be helpful in effectively navigating the organization and influencing partners to achieve outcomes.
- Leverage emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify innovative, scalable solutions.
- Apply AI and data-driven approaches to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and risk management across initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Drives strategic problem-solving by identifying root causes, challenging existing processes, and developing solutions to help solve complex business and operational challenges.
- Partners with stakeholders to translate broad objectives into actionable strategies and innovative execution plans.
- Proactively identifies opportunities for process optimization, automation, transformation and leveraging AI beyond defined project scope to improve decision-making and drive operational efficiencies.
- Manages design or redesign of processes or projects, incorporating strategic insights and innovative approaches to drive continuous improvement.
- Balances tactical project execution with strategic foresight to anticipate risks, dependencies, and evolving business needs.
- Execute defined project tasks while leveraging data analytics and AI-assisted tools through tracking deliverables and their statuses, developing project plans, and measuring progress against ongoing key performance indicators.
- Reports on an overall integrated delivery plan, raising any risks, developing a mitigation plan, and escalating issues appropriately to respective stakeholders.
- Effectively communicates with leaders, managers, peers and business partners on deliverables, timelines and support needed.
- Enthusiastic, energetic, determined, and positive work ethic.
Benefits
- Access to paid time off
- Resources and support to our employees
- Discretionary incentive eligible
- Annual discretionary award based on individual performance, line of business performance, and overall company success.
- Industry-leading benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
