Sr. Manager, Project Manager – Small Business Bank

A large national consumer bank is seeking a Sr. Manager, Project Manager for its Small Business Bank team.

Location: Hybrid — McLean, VA

This role will drive strategy and execute on high priority projects for the company, leading a diverse team of associates in delivering flawlessly executed processes that improve business efficiency and drive results. The position involves creating and modifying processes while collaborating with smart and passionate leaders to influence results that have a direct impact on the company's bottom line and ensure achievement of critical well managed objectives. Responsibilities include helping define process improvements including tool creation and evolution, achieving buy-in, and driving execution across the business. The role will monitor data trends to measure effectiveness and install necessary benchmarks or thresholds to ensure data integrity. The position will educate and partner with key stakeholders concerning the utilization of processes to ensure appropriate execution each time.

General 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

Exhibiting outstanding influencing skills to effectively drive project and program efforts

Demonstrating 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

Displaying a passion for coaching and developing a team of associates through their leadership style

Driving process improvements aligned with desired customer outcomes by decomposing customer needs and defining clear deliverables and timelines

Analyzing, identifying, and correcting data issues with systems used or owned by a department

Having 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

Managing and leading a team of associates

Basic Qualifications:

At least 7 years of Project Management experience

At least 3 years of Process Management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree or Military Experience

PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

At least 8 years of Project Management experience

At least 1 year of People Management experience

At least 5 years of Process Management experience

At least 2 years of experience in Compliance or Risk Management

At this time, a large national consumer bank will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. This role is hybrid meaning associates spend 3 days per week in person at the office. Fridays are enterprise wide virtual work days. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are in person days for associates to spend time together working in beautifully designed team areas.

Compensation: $177,700 – $202,800/yr