Lead Project Manager | COO Change Delivery | Wholesale Operations

at  Wells Fargo

JOB EXPECTATIONS:

Locations: Charlotte, NC; Saint Louis, MO; Chandler, AZ. Only posted locations will be considered.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Willingness to work on-site in one of the listed locations
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time

Note: Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

APPLICANTS WITH DISABILITIES

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WELLS FARGO RECRUITMENT AND HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Project Management and Methodologies, Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, educatio

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience and a proven ability to drive transformation/change initiatives across a wide range of functions
• Direct experience working within financial services industry, specifically in Corporate and Investment Banking, Markets or Institutional Operations.
• Knowledge and understanding of audit, regulatory compliance, risk management and control automation
• Prior experience leading across global team and guiding junior project managers
• Ability to operate effectively in a geographically and functional dispersed organization
• Ability to gain consensus and agreement across disparate functions, stakeholders, and technologists
• Knowledge and understanding of product or program management: development of roadmaps, strategies, and management of products ranging from concepts in ideation through to market delivery
• Experience managing projects in a large enterprise environment
• Experience with Agile delivery
• Experience communicating in both written and verbal formats with senior executive-level leaders
• Ability to present results of analyses and recommendations to senior leaders
• Must be able to quickly create concise, informative executive summaries for stakeholders that convey a well-developed “story” and advocate for a well-reasoned point of view.
• Ability to articulate issues, risks, and proposed solutions to various levels of staff and management
• Ability to influence, partner, and negotiate with senior business leaders to gain commitment to accomplish business goals
• A self-starter with ability to independently manage work and drive multiple deliverables concurrently

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Project Manager responsible for leading a transformation program within Wholesale operations. This position is an individual contributor with an opportunity to guide and lead Project Managers within the team.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives managing all activities in a project life-cycle such as initiation, planning, executing, controlling, risk/impediment/dependencies management and closing associated with projects that are long-term and cross functional with broad impact, scope and complexity
• Act as key participant in large-scale project planning and capacity management for change delivery
• Review, analyze and initiate complex multi-faceted enterprise support operations, organizational systems knowledge and navigation to anticipate change impacts that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
• Ensure full understanding of project impacts that translate into comprehensive engagement strategies
• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted situations, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end while developing and implementing program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics
• Demonstrate understanding of policy, methodology and artifact creation that influence and lead change management to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Strategically collaborate and consult with stakeholders, project leads, mid-level to senior managers sponsors and business partners to clarify and define project requirements and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Project Management and Methodologies, Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience and a proven ability to drive transformation/change initiatives across a wide range of functions
• Direct experience working within financial services industry, specifically in Corporate and Investment Banking, Markets or Institutional Operations.
• Knowledge and understanding of audit, regulatory compliance, risk management and control automation
• Prior experience leading across global team and guiding junior project managers
• Ability to operate effectively in a geographically and functional dispersed organization
• Ability to gain consensus and agreement across disparate functions, stakeholders, and technologists
• Knowledge and understanding of product or program management: development of roadmaps, strategies, and management of products ranging from concepts in ideation through to market delivery
• Experience managing projects in a large enterprise environment
• Experience with Agile delivery
• Experience communicating in both written and verbal formats with senior executive-level leaders
• Ability to present results of analyses and recommendations to senior leaders
• Must be able to quickly create concise, informative executive summaries for stakeholders that convey a well-developed “story” and advocate for a well-reasoned point of view.
• Ability to articulate issues, risks, and proposed solutions to various levels of staff and management
• Ability to influence, partner, and negotiate with senior business leaders to gain commitment to accomplish business goals
• A self-starter with ability to independently manage work and drive multiple deliverables concurrently.