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Bank of America

Program Manager

Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28245

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Program Manager

Charlotte, North Carolina

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Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Job Description:

This job is responsible for overseeing programs and projects specific to corporate change initiatives that impact how the bank does business, provides a product or service, or executes a function. Key responsibilities include serving as the primary contact to department managers for critical change initiatives and communicating, influencing, and negotiating vertically and horizontally to obtain or leverage resources. Job expectations include delivering regulatory and executive material and ensuring results align to program strategy, simplification, and new capabilities.

The candidate will support the governance and oversight of critical Global Technology program execution and issues resolution that have significant impact on how the company does business, provides a product or service, or executes a function. A key requirement is to have the intellectual stamina for delivery of regulatory and executive material and ensure delivery of the results aligned to our multi-year delivery efforts for program strategy, simplification and new risk management capabilities. Strong business centric mindset with ability to utilize sound judgment and tailor approach to drive optimal outcomes. Communicates, influences and negotiates both vertically and horizontally to obtain or leverage necessary resources. Build positive give and take relationships with stakeholders and uses the right questions and tools to uncover root causes to challenges, identifies opportunities, and make recommendations.

Ideal candidate will possess knowledge and experience with GT Issues and Risk Management.

Responsibilities:

Defines program controls, processes, procedures, reporting cadence, decision governance structures, and ways of working with key stakeholders

Works closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to develop the scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new change initiatives

Monitors the execution of defined tasks through tracking of program milestones and their statuses, developing program plans, and measuring progress against ongoing key performance indicators

Analyzes, evaluates, and overcomes program risks, and produces program reports for managers and stakeholders

Identifies key requirements for cross-functional teams and external vendors to perform in alignment with the program objectives

Works with other program managers to identify risks and opportunities across multiple projects within the department, leading them to negotiate decision making for efficient and effective resolution

Meets with stakeholders to provide transparency into project issues and decisions on services, builds positive relationships, asks questions, and uses tools to uncover root causes to challenges, identify opportunities, and make recommendations

Required Qualification:

10+ Years of Project/Program Management Experience

Agile experience

Establish and maintain relationships with relevant client stakeholders, providing day-to-day contact on project status and changes

Self-starter with ability to work independently as well as leading or participating in a cross-functional team environment

Hands on ability leading projects from requirements definition through deployment, identifying schedules, scopes, budget estimations, and implementation plans, including risk mitigation

Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

Able to lead cross-functional teams in the execution of program objectives

Cultivates a positive team culture and ensures broader collaboration across the enterprise

Analyze project status and, when necessary, revise the scope, schedule, or budget to ensure that project requirements can be met

Establish and maintain processes for managing scope during the project lifecycle, setting quality and performance standards and assessing risks

High level of integrity and professionalism in dealing with sensitive audit and regulatory matters

Practical knowledge of Backup and Resiliency technical capabilities and policies

Advanced/Expert MS Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint

Proven presentation skills (written and oral): ability to present key messages, recommendations and information in a clear, concise and insightful way and synthesize information key to relevant points to Senior Executives across the Enterprise

Proven executive presence, horizontal and strategic thinker with the ability to influence effectively at all levels within the organization

Demonstrates a good sense of judgment, knows when to escalate and how to manage expectations

Considers a diverse set of data points and inputs and is decisive in solutioning

Desired Qualification:

Global Technology experience

Business & Risk Management experience

Regulatory experience

Audit experience

Working knowledge of bank policies, programs and procedures

Prior experience handling multiple facets of an end-to-end business: financial management, project management, governance, operations and technology management, and strategy initiatives

Skills:

Program Management

Project Management

Reporting

Consulting

Problem Solving

Leadership Development

Performance Management

Collaboration

Presentation Skills

Prioritization

Issue Management

Risk Management

Process Design

Process Performance Management

Oral Communications

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. Should you be offered a role with Bank of America, your hiring manager will provide you with information on the in-office expectations associated with your role. These expectations are subject to change at any time and at the sole discretion of the Company. To the extent you have a disability or sincerely held religious belief for which you believe you need a reasonable accommodation from this requirement, you must seek an accommodation through the Bank's required accommodation request process before your first day of work.

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