SVP of Product – Projects and Corporate Real Estate

SVP of Product – Projects and Corporate Real Estate

Requirements

• Excellent detail, organizational, multi-tasking, facilitation, influence, and prioritization skills.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal with experience writing memos to an executive team/board.
• Strong knowledge and demonstrated skills in product development and product positioning strategies, efforts, and methods.
• Deep experience encouraging collaboration between cross-functional teams to deliver effective and efficient solutions to the business lines.
• Ability to work effectively and influence stakeholders across all levels in the organization.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Ability to proactively identify issues and inter-dependencies, and to devise effective solutions.
• Track record of success analyzing people processes, data and trends to make recommendations to business units and Senior Leadership to drive continuous improvement.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and direct team members.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a diverse group of people including Members, team members, officials/directors, community leaders and groups, vendors, and other individuals and groups.
• Excellent project management skills including: planning, organizing and execution of project deliverables, leading, organizing, and motivating project teams to work collectively to deliver results in a timely and effective manner, developing and maintaining effective working relationships with project teams, internal clients, and external vendors, ensuring projects are completed as cost-effectively as possible while meeting business objectives, effectively communicating progress and escalating issues in a proactive manner, maintaining thorough documentation and organization of project activities and files.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of the Senior Leadership Team providing leadership and direction for the Credit Union.
• Plan, develop, implement, and monitor budgets, plans, policies, procedures, and short- and long-term strategies for areas of responsibility including product and service innovation, project management, corporate real estate, and facilities.
• Serve on and/or direct a variety of committees to ensure effective interface of all key areas of responsibility with other areas of the organization and to ensure policies, programs, objectives, and goals are effectively communicated.
• Attend and actively participate in Board of Directors meetings, Senior Leadership meetings, ALCO meetings, Board and SLT strategic planning sessions, Human Resource Committee, etc.
• Assume an active, positive, and visible leadership role within RCU through regular dialogue with staff and management throughout the organization.
• Represent RCU to outside entities, as appropriate, such as examiners, auditors, vendors and support companies.
• Participate in and represent Redwood at various internal and community functions and events, and actively serve in community leadership roles in civic, professional association, charitable and other local organizations.
• Develop and implement plans and policies to attain goals and objectives, measure progress, and implement adjustments as appropriate.
• Develop and regularly evaluate procedures and programs and ensure effective implementation and communication.
• Develop department staffing strategies and implement plans to identify talent within and outside RCU for current and future talent needs.
• Continually assess the competitiveness of programs, processes and practices against relevant comparable companies, industries, and markets to ensure use of best practices.
• Establish strong synergies and process flow between the various areas to optimize efficient and effective work outcomes.
• Review and identify cost effective and efficient utilization of Redwood Credit Union resources.
• Play an integral role in the development of annual projects and budget to support strategies, corporate real estate, and facilities.
• Responsible for overseeing the implementation of project management excellence across the organization.
• Ability to coach and provide constructive insight and guidance to the project management team.
• Support the execution of best practices within the Project Management Department for achieving business goals and the smooth running of projects undertaken by the team.
• Lead and/or support key committees including Project Governance, Strategic Committees, ALCO, etc.
• Participate in the development of common project management processes, tools, and governance to be leveraged on corporate projects.
• Ensure the effective administration of the corporate real estate portfolio.
• Lead the corporate real estate and facilities teams.
• Oversee strategies and processes related to real estate leases, facilities renovations, premises management, team member movement and roll-out of corporate programs and initiatives.
• Support the relationships between key stakeholders involved in the construction process to ensure coordination, communication and problem resolution amongst contractor, regulatory agencies, vendors, and Redwood occur in a timely, cost-efficient manner for each project.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key contacts in the community including volunteer centers and non-profit organizations.
• Participate in community events, community volunteer boards and associations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in business administration, or closely related field.
• Minimum of twelve years’ experience in product development and project management.
• Minimum of five years of progressive leadership experience.