LPL Financial

AVP, Integrated Project Planning, Program Management

LPL Financial

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Austin • South Carolina • Texas • United States

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Salary

💰 $117,806 - $196,344 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Build, own and continuously maintain a master integrated project plan that spans major deliverables across programs and initiatives.
  • Collaborate with program managers and workstream owners to ensure individual plans roll up cleanly into the integrated view.
  • Identify timing collisions, overlapping deliverables, critical-path risks and resource constraints before they impact delivery.
  • Establish a governance process for updating, reviewing and communicating the integrated plan.
  • Provide clear, concise, executive-ready updates, dashboards and timeline summaries for SVPs and executive level leaders.
  • Facilitate dependency review sessions and milestone alignment meetings.
  • Build trusted relationships with stakeholders to ensure planning processes are adopted consistently.
  • Oversee program and portfolio level budget management, including forecasting, tracking spend, ensuring financial alignment to strategic priorities, and optimizing resource allocation across initiatives.
  • Escalates unresolved cross-program issues to the established executive forum for prioritization, funding alignment or timeline decisions.
  • Evaluate, recommend and implement the tool that will serve as the system of record for integrated planning.
  • Develop scalable templates, workflows, and standards for ongoing plan maintenance.
  • Hire, coach and manage a team responsible for ongoing integrated plan as the integrated planning function grows.
  • Define best practices, performance metrics and continuous improvement processes for the team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
  • 5 + years of experience in program management, release management, or Agile delivery leadership within a large enterprise, preferably financial services.
  • Advanced knowledge of JIRA, JQL, Confluence or similar tools and advanced Excel skills
  • Experience in SAFe; Kanban/Scrum/Waterfall
  • Executive presence with demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and provide insight to SVPs and C-level leaders.
Benefits
  • 401K matching
  • health benefits
  • employee stock options
  • paid time off
  • volunteer time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
program managementrelease managementAgile deliveryadvanced ExcelJIRAJQLConfluenceSAFeKanbanScrum
Soft Skills
executive presenceinfluencecommunicationrelationship buildingcoachingteam managementproblem solvingcritical thinkingstakeholder engagementcontinuous improvement