Strategic Initiatives Lead

Bank of America

Strategic Initiatives Lead at Bank of America managing diverse projects and driving strategic transformations. Partnering across business and technology teams to ensure strategies align with goals.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timePennington • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders to drive strategic transformation
Design and implement transformational strategies to ensure adoption of new processes and technologies
Partner across business and technology teams to ensure the strategy is insight-driven, business-aligned, and future-ready
Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in governance and AI/ML; provide recommendations to inform strategic planning
Build and/or execute business initiatives and/or processes, while partnering with stakeholders and partners
Solve complex problems and deliver on business initiatives and processes by applying subject matter expertise and technical knowledge of the business
Engage with key stakeholders, partners, and business leadership to deliver on business objectives
Perform analytics, assessments, and/or interpretation of data and/or information to identify business opportunities, derive insights, and measure outcomes
Develop strategic and tactical plans to drive progress towards business goals and objectives

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8 years of experience in Process Engineering, Business Analytics, and Project Management & Support
Proven ability to develop strategic objectives aligned to business goals and data priorities
Experience developing content that enables C-suite leadership alignment and decision making
Engineers solutions to complex problems in support of performance plan objectives to resolve issues and risks, optimize efficiency, reduce variability, and improve controls, effectiveness, quality, and sustainability
Demonstrates intellectual curiosity with the ability to read and understand complex matters, anticipate risks, and summarize key information
Ability to overcome obstacles and solve problems quickly and efficiently, self-starter with excellent anticipation skills
Strong communication skills and executive presence: able to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally, and deliver insights and recommendations to senior management
Ability to transform complex information and data into clear, concise, and visually engaging slides
Strong data visualization, design, and storytelling abilities
Ability to manage multiple projects while meeting deadlines and quality standards
High attention to detail and strong organizational skills
Demonstrated dependability and sense of urgency; comfortable working with people at all organizational levels
Ability to work well under pressure, adapt to unexpected events, prioritize, and multi-task in a deadline-driven environment
Ability to navigate in a highly matrixed environment
Comfortable taking initiative and being resourceful/entrepreneurial.

Benefits

Comp & perks

access to paid time off
resources and support to employees

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Hard Skills & Tools

Process EngineeringBusiness AnalyticsProject ManagementData VisualizationStrategic PlanningPerformance OptimizationRisk ManagementComplex Problem SolvingData InterpretationContent Development

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationExecutive PresenceIntellectual CuriosityAnticipation SkillsOrganizational SkillsDependabilitySense of UrgencyAdaptabilityResourcefulnessMulti-tasking