Program Manager / Training Lead
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Executive Director, Program Manager – Business Transformation Services
Morgan Stanley
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Dallas • New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Provide program management support for select strategic initiatives, regulatory change, or integration efforts
- Coordinate across a multi-disciplinary team with a key focus on program delivery, risk monitoring, scope management, budgetary tracking and management reporting
- Working with all functional disciplines impacted by the project to ensure ‘end to end’ planning is comprehensive and results in a project plan that will achieve stated goals of project
- Create a governance structure for managing complex programs that involve multiple business, technology and control partners
- Working with key business partners, build and maintain a program roadmap that can be used to drive delivery priorities
- Manage dependencies with legal, risk and compliance partners
- Provide transparency to stakeholders into progress towards project goals
- Ensure comprehensive documentation of requirements, assumptions, changes in scope etc. associated with project and establish an audit trail to demonstrate these activities have been addressed
- Provide mechanisms to capture & monitor remediation of any potential risks
- Monitor project costs and resource allocations to ensure investment is used in the best interests of Firm
- Ensure accurate and consistent reporting of activity, across all governance forums outside of direct control
- Manage project managers and consultants to deliver against firm priorities
Requirements
- BS/BA degree required
- Advanced degrees a plus
- A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in project management, product management or technology
- Professional experience in the financial services industry, Wealth Management, FinTech, or management consulting
- Occasional travel may be required
- Proven ability to manage delivery/execution of a wide range of tasks and initiatives
- Proven experience developing partnerships with and successfully coordinating across various Business, Technology, Operations and Control partners and stakeholders
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams where there is no direct reporting chain
- Strong written and verbal communications skills, ability to interact at all levels of the organization and tailor messages appropriately
- Strong presentation skills, including ability to create polished PowerPoint presentations for various levels of management
- Independent self-starter who can manage multiple activities to aggressive deadlines
- Eagerness to learn the business and understand detailed technical requirements
- Experience managing major organizational change programs, such as merger integrations or corporate restructure
- Experience working with cross functional teams, including product management, UX, technology, analytics, marketing, risk and compliance.
- Highly skilled in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and SharePoint
Benefits
- opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest
- supported and empowered environment
- attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementprogram managementrisk monitoringscope managementbudgetary trackingrequirements documentationremediation monitoringorganizational change managementcross-functional team leadershipstakeholder management
Soft skills
strong written communicationstrong verbal communicationpresentation skillsindependent self-starterability to manage multiple activitiesability to influence teamseagerness to learninterpersonal skillsorganizational skillstailoring messages