Strategic Initiatives Program Manager

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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Strategic Initiative Program Manager leads initiatives that deliver the Consumer Lending organization’s strategy. Drives strategies and programs that require cross partner collaboration, ensuring holistic implementation. Enables capabilities to deliver holistic client relationships with Truist, business growth, and synergies across lending.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Leads and drives strategic initiative(s): Cultivates and implements strategy designed to deliver solutions supporting and achieving Truist mission and strategic objectives
• Conceptualizes ideas and associated benefits; translates ideas into initiative(s) with specifications and functional requirements (supported by research and development)
• Delivers solutions with business case development and approval, sourcing and financial approval processes, Risk model engagement, business and technical functional requirements.
• Interfaces across levels of the organization to design, present, champion and implement.
• Lead change, influence leadership, educate and drive initiatives through multiple channels and levels of teammates/leaders
• Serves as a key contact by providing thought leadership to all levels of organization, partners and execution teams to ideate and develop solutions to achieve strategic objectives.
• Communicates success to senior leadership and others with concise communication style to enhance and manage alignment of strategy intent to optimization.
• Project and Program Management, leading execution teams to ensure strategic programs have a long term sustainable path to deployment and post deployment
• Engages, partners and collaborates across a highly matrixed set of internal cross functional partners, stakeholders, and business partners that are often within a different reporting line of business.
• Ensures effective Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, change management, Sourcing, Risk and quality management
  
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent financial industry education or related training.
• 8+ years of experience in lending and/or financial services.
• Exhibits outstanding presentation skills; both verbal and in presentation material(s) creation.
• Experience in program and project management
• Innovative mindset, strategic thinker with team experience, analytical aptitude, strong organizational and problem-solving skills with distinct ability to gain and use insights to ideate, develop and drive strategic projects.
• Demonstrates executive presence and leadership capabilities to gain consensus and collective decision from Sr. Leadership, disparate and cross function teams in time sensitive situations.
• Develops strong relationships
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of banking industry and innovation trends.
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma, PMP and/or PgMP or similar process improvement, facilitation, and project management methodologies
• Experience with industry technology and platforms
• Working knowledge and understanding of Value Stream Planning/Agile Delivery Strategies.
• Experience in management; leading teammates/leaders directly.
  
  
  

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

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