Manager, Project Management - Network Innovation Engagement Manager

Capital One•Chicago, IL

About The Position

The Network Innovation Team is seeking an Innovation Engagement Manager to uncover problems and opportunities worthy of exploration, evaluate potential implications, develop hypothesis, structure experiments to validate/invalidate hypothesis, execute the full innovation process, and support stakeholders as they ingest the insights and learnings from generated evidence. The successful candidate is responsible for innovation engagements from inception to execution to implementation. They manage ALL aspects of the engagement over its entire life including: the initiation, design and development of plan, identification and management of stakeholders, execution, controls, implementation, and communications. The Engagement Manager assembles and leads the engagement team – usually consisting of internal and external parties – to ensure engagements are completed on time, within budgets, and produce the learnings required to evaluate the engagement hypothesis. This role also actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within day-to-day management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or Military experience
At least 7 Years of Project Management experience
At least 1 Year of People Management experience

Nice To Haves

Masters of Business Administration
8+ years of Project Management experience
3+ years of People Management experience
2+ years of experience in the payments or Financial Services industry

Responsibilities

Leading moderate to large complex projects and programs by providing strategic direction to projects, peers, and direct reports.
Designing, developing, and managing project plans in a complex dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing requirements
Ensuring projects are being documented appropriately to mitigate risk and to be delivered on time.
Leveraging problem solving and influencing skills to ensure project plans deliver on intent
Partnering cross-functionally with project customers to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery
Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments
Exhibit outstanding influencing skills to effectively drive project / program efforts
Demonstrate a proven track record of excellent project management, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment.
Display a passion for coaching and developing a team of associates through their leadership style
Have excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the company to manage, inform and influence outcomes