Dealer Services Project Manager
U.S. Bank
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Earth City • Minnesota • Montana • United States
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Salary
💰 $98,175 - $115,500 per year
About the role
- Provides senior-level project leadership for complex, cross-functional initiatives supporting Dealer Services collateral and/or auto lending (including indirect lending) programs
- Owns delivery from intake through implementation, aligning stakeholders across business, operations, compliance/risk, and technology to drive measurable outcomes
- Leads large and/or highly complex initiatives with multiple workstreams; develops integrated project plans, resource alignment, dependency management, and governance to meet commitments
- Drives end-to-end stakeholder alignment across Dealer Services, Product, Sales/Field, Operations, Technology, Compliance/Legal, Risk, and vendor/partner teams; escalates and resolves issues to keep delivery on track
- Leads project initiation sessions and facilitates working forums; ensures clear scope, requirements, acceptance criteria, and decisioning throughout the lifecycle
- Partners with content owners and control functions to deliver compliant collateral and communications; manages versioning, approvals, controlled distribution, and change impacts
- Develops and maintains project artifacts (charters, RAID logs, status reporting, cutover/runbooks, readiness checklists) and provides executive-ready communications and recommendations
- Coordinates implementation readiness (training, job aids, dealer enablement, operational procedures) and validates operational adoption post-launch; identifies opportunities to improve processes and reduce cycle time
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Eight to ten years of experience in project management activities
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- Advanced knowledge of project management
- Ability to identify and resolve exceptions and to analyze data
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Dealer Services collateral (dealer enablement materials, program guides, disclosures, job aids) and content governance/controls (versioning, approvals, controlled distribution)
- Auto lending knowledge, including indirect lending and dealer channel operations
- Experience delivering initiatives in a regulated environment with Compliance/Legal/Risk review and approval workflows
- Proficiency with JIRA/Confluence (or similar) and writing requirements (user stories, acceptance criteria)
- Hybrid Agile/Waterfall delivery experience; ability to lead across multiple workstreams and drive dependency management
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementanalytical skillsorganizational skillsdata analysisproject planningdependency managementcompliance reviewcontent governanceAgile methodologyWaterfall methodology
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder alignmentcommunicationproblem-solvingfacilitation