Vice President - Project Manager

LPL Financial-posted about 16 hours ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Charlotte, NC
5,001-10,000 employees
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What if you could build a career where ambition meets innovation? At LPL Financial, we empower professionals to shape their success while helping clients pursue their financial goals with confidence. What if you could have access to cutting-edge resources, a collaborative environment, and the freedom to make an impact? If you're ready to take the next step, discover what’s possible with LPL Financial. Job Overview: We are currently searching for a new VP Project Manager to join our Frontline Program Management team (FPM). This role with focus on delivering large, complex bodies of work and can require sophisticated analysis, resourcefulness and skill to drive successful delivery of firm priorities. The person in this role will be seen as a thought leader across the firm and sought after for strategic initiatives.

  • Contributes to the continued enhancement of the FPM project/program management function in partnership with the Head of FPM and the broader Transformation and Delivery organization
  • Accountable for all aspects of project management for FPM initiatives – whether through direct delivery or oversight of immediate team deliverables.
  • Focuses on client centricity, champions firm ideals in all aspects of work interaction and delivery.
  • Establish cross-functional teams through resource planning, governance structure development, work breakdown and scope management to ensure the overall delivery strategy and target outcomes are realized.
  • Understand and manage project/program inter-dependencies to achieve program milestones/deliverables.
  • Actively collaborate with business, product and technology stakeholders, work closely with vendor partners at all levels throughout the lifecycle of a project/program to maximize benefits realization.
  • Identify, mitigate, and manage project risks; know when to escalate issues to move concerns forward and, when faced with ambiguity, step into the void to find solutions.
  • Provide ongoing communications and reporting to executive leaders and stakeholders; deliver guidance to the project team on feedback integration and recommendations.
  • Establish and implement formalized change management approach including business readiness measurement, communications and training.
  • Four-year college degree or higher required, or equivalent work experience. Business / finance / analytic discipline is a plus.
  • 10+ years of professional experience in project management
  • Experience successfully leading large cross functional projects and programs; Possess extensive knowledge and expertise in project management techniques and systems development methodologies with demonstrated success at achieving results and keeping initiatives on track.
  • Experience with project management tools such as Teams, Smartsheet, MS Project, Miro, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Suite, Jira, and Confluence.
  • Established track record of successfully organizing, managing and delivering large projects/programs under various project management frameworks including, but not limited to, SAFe. Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall, with demonstrated success at achieving results.
  • Maintains organizational knowledge and successfully utilizes experience in key domains to align with leadership and demonstrate effectiveness in organizing work and leading others.
  • Possesses high degree of financial services / banking industry knowledge with an emphasis on finance, operations and risk domains. Experienced with financial services and banking platform solutions, operations processes & procedures, and technology / product solutions & implementations.
  • Operates with honesty and integrity - known for "doing what you say you’ll do" - and has a reputation for principled leadership in the face of adversity.
  • Highly adaptable team player; comfortable with fast paced, changing environment and ambiguity
  • Financial Services / Banking experience preferred
  • Experience leading large enterprise-wide change initiatives and technology solution implementations is preferred
  • Experience with large business and/or technology transformation programs is a plus
  • 401K matching
  • health benefits
  • employee stock options
  • paid time off
  • volunteer time off
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