Consumer Lending Strategic Initiatives Program Manager

Truist • Greensboro, NC

3d

About The Position

The Strategic Initiative Program Manager leads initiatives that deliver the Consumer Lending organization’s strategy. Drives strategies and programs that require cross partner collaboration, ensuring holistic implementation. Enables capabilities to deliver holistic client relationships with Truist, business growth, and synergies across lending.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent financial industry education or related training.
• 8+ years of experience in lending and/or financial services.
• Exhibits outstanding presentation skills; both verbal and in presentation material(s) creation.
• Experience in program and project management
• Innovative mindset, strategic thinker with team experience, analytical aptitude, strong organizational and problem-solving skills with distinct ability to gain and use insights to ideate, develop and drive strategic projects.
• Demonstrates executive presence and leadership capabilities to gain consensus and collective decision from Sr. Leadership, disparate and cross function teams in time sensitive situations.
• Develops strong relationships

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of banking industry and innovation trends.
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma, PMP and/or PgMP or similar process improvement, facilitation, and project management methodologies
• Experience with industry technology and platforms
• Working knowledge and understanding of Value Stream Planning/Agile Delivery Strategies.
• Experience in management; leading teammates/leaders directly.

Responsibilities

• Leads and drives strategic initiative(s): Cultivates and implements strategy designed to deliver solutions supporting and achieving Truist mission and strategic objectives
• Conceptualizes ideas and associated benefits; translates ideas into initiative(s) with specifications and functional requirements (supported by research and development)
• Delivers solutions with business case development and approval, sourcing and financial approval processes, Risk model engagement, business and technical functional requirements.
• Interfaces across levels of the organization to design, present, champion and implement.
• Lead change, influence leadership, educate and drive initiatives through multiple channels and levels of teammates/leaders
• Serves as a key contact by providing thought leadership to all levels of organization, partners and execution teams to ideate and develop solutions to achieve strategic objectives.
• Communicates success to senior leadership and others with concise communication style to enhance and manage alignment of strategy intent to optimization.
• Project and Program Management, leading execution teams to ensure strategic programs have a long term sustainable path to deployment and post deployment
• Engages, partners and collaborates across a highly matrixed set of internal cross functional partners, stakeholders, and business partners that are often within a different reporting line of business.
• Ensures effective Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, change management, Sourcing, Risk and quality management

Benefits

• Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.
• Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.
• Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees