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Program Manager – Enterprise Change Management – Ecm
Company | Northern Trust |
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Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Salary | $114700 – $194900 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Experience leading complex programs and process with evidence of continuous improvement along the way
- Execution-oriented with an affinity toward setting and achieving targets
- Strong ability to influence and utilize personal courage
- Capable of consulting with senior leaders and leveraging problem solving skills
- Sense of urgency, risk-awareness, and understanding of the ‘why’ behind managing high-stakes initiatives
- Ability to form meaningful relationships with business partners and external vendors
- Ability to accurately plan, manage and forecast budget
- Ability to write and assess strong, metrics-drive business cases and apply prioritization methods
- Experience working in a global, cross-functional environment
Responsibilities
- Responsible for creating, driving, and administering ECM program governance program management standards
- Determine benchmarks and measurements of success for each program; utilize information for continuous improvement toward program goals
- Mobilize teams and drive implementation for designated programs and projects as assigned and as per the appropriate governance standards for the level of complexity and risk
- Conduct program management with initiative planning design, build and transition for the program
- Track scope, schedule, budget and resources via regular documentation, steering committees, reporting, and communication in the designated frameworks
- Proactively manage program/project risks and dependencies within the program and across the organization
- Escalate risks timely and contribute to proposing, deciding, and actioning mitigation strategies
- Hold teams accountable and perform effective decision making
- Collaborate with the Organizational Change Management team to ensure proper communication processes are met prior to, during, and after go-live
- Ensure risk, legal, procurement, compliance and upstream/downstream applications have proper levels of involvement in the program/project
- Facilitate processes and proper documentation / sign-off is completed per the governance standards
- Assess budget, track forecast, actuals and Quarterly allocations
- Proactively escalate observations pertaining to under/over-spending and work to propose mitigation tactics in order to stay within the intended budget
- Collaborate with Productivity Office to ensure proper data is captured, assess and maintained during Annual and Quarterly Planning
- Manage the communication and execution plans to implement new ECM program offerings with broader enterprise
- Contribute to the continuous improvement on ECM processes, standards, and templates
Preferred Qualifications
- BS/BA degree in relevant field preferred
- Experience in global financial services preferred
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a project or program management role at a complex organization
- Experience in organizational, results-driven transformations
- CAPM or PMP is a plus but not required