Director, Strategic Program Management
skillventory - A Leading Talent Research Firm
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Smithfield • New Hampshire, Rhode Island • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Responsible for leading activities associated with the delivery, readiness and overall execution of FI programs and FI and IWMS projects.
- Work closely with the executive sponsors, Product Areas and Stakeholders to ensure that the initiative stays on track and delivers value to our customers.
- Champion standard tools and agile ways of working to run program activities, track dependencies, create qualitative and quantitative executive reporting.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience collaborating and building positive relationships within a sophisticated agile organization, ideally in financial services.
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with specific strengths in communicating with senior leaders.
- Ability to enable and drive synchronization and partnership between squads and program team for clear communication and effective execution.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think through problems, assess a variety of factors and recommend solutions.
- Flexibility and the skill to both lead and contribute to workstreams are a must.
- Consistent track record leading sophisticated programs by balancing execution, priorities, dependencies, risk factors, compliance to regulatory and internal controls while meeting client expectations.
- Strong attention to detail as well as effective time management abilities
- Demonstrated self-starter that thrives in an independent environment
- Relevant program management and technology leadership focus is significantly beneficial.
- Demonstrated ability working within a product management, project management team or relevant experience is preferred.
- Assimilate business needs with operational, technical and readiness requirements of a program.
- Drive and enable strategic programs within Fidelity Institutional and across Fidelity within our agile framework.
- Partner with business unit partners, domains, product areas, business owner(s), and technology teams to develop scope and project tasks.
- Developing realistic, workable iterative plans, identifying dependencies and risks and providing transparency to leadership around progress.
- Provide leadership and oversight associated with balancing customer expectations during iterative development, coordinating customer communications, and implementing effective governance.
- Liaise with legal, risk, compliance, and audit as required.
- Champion standard tools and agile ways of working (e.g., JIRA Align) to run program activities, track dependencies, create qualitative and quantitative executive reporting.
- Liaise with initiative executive sponsors to ensure continued alignment with initiative’s objectives.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
program managementproject managementagile methodologiesiterative planningrisk managementcomplianceexecutive reportingdependency trackingproblem-solvingtechnology leadership
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillspresentation skillsflexibilityattention to detailtime managementself-startercollaborationleadershiprelationship building