Senior Portfolio Manager advising on Strategic Enterprise Initiative governance at M&T Bank. Leading transformational changes and supporting enterprise-level initiatives across multiple locations.
Responsibilities
Responsible for overseeing and driving teams in the adoption and implementation of an evolving Strategic Enterprise Initiative Governance framework aimed at achieving alignment across the bank and its strategy, including providing transparency to senior leadership of progress of initiatives.
Develop and tailor communications content and artifacts used across various levels in the organization on our Strategic Enterprise Initiative Portfolio of highly complex business initiatives with high attention to detail and quality.
Independently guide multi-disciplinary teams through large-scale complex transformational changes focused on Strategic Enterprise Initiatives, or strategically important short-term engagements that deliver business outcomes.
Ensures follow up on all critical items and drives accountability through documentation and governance framework and/or assessments.
Build and leverage relationships across the organization to break down silos, stay connected to changes going on in the bank; Encourage collaboration to support an environment of information sharing to effectively deliver outcomes; Responsible for sharing and leveraging deep institutional and/or industry knowledge, business processes/workflows, products, and technologies to help shape strategy, and deliver desired outcomes for M&T.
Lead work groups and individuals with different perspectives to develop and provide strategic recommendations, encourage innovation, and embrace a culture of transformational change.
Provide execution certainty by setting pace and driving accountability, working alongside senior leaders to drive decisions.
Support Governance practices and our business partners by influencing the level of defined outcomes and key measures of success for Strategic transformation initiatives.
Encourage a culture of how to challenge status quo by consistently pushing for innovation, continuous improvement, and recommend solutions for adoption across the organization.
Mentor and coach Enterprise Transformation Portfolio and/or Delivery team members to take ownership of their development and career path.
Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite.
Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.
Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
7+ years’ related work experience
Minimum of 5 years’ project, program or portfolio management experience, specifically with large-scale transformation projects
Dedicated senior leader that can leverage large scale, complex, enterprise-wide Portfolio Management, and Delivery experience
Ability to navigate at pace to address enterprise-wide opportunities, and lead simultaneous priorities at any given time
Robust Program and Portfolio Management experience, leading cross-functional teams through all life cycles of work
Scaled agile experience and ability to formulate and activate hypothesis to execution a plus
Experience in Banking Mergers and Acquisitions
Experience developing and building enterprise standards around program management
Portfolio management governance reporting
Vendor and Resource Management experience a plus
Must demonstrate Executive presence, and ability to influence communication strategies for all levels
Well versed in Change Management principles and avid Change agent
Ability to navigate varying depths of inspection in order to analyze and provide summarization for ease of decision making
Prior experience leading organizational change
MBA or MS preferred
PMP, PMFP, Agile, SAFe, Certified BA and/or ScrumMaster Certification
Prior management consulting or comparable client service experience a plus
Proven intellectual curiosity
Relevant financial services industry experience preferred.
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