Program Management Advisory and Execution SVP

Program Management Advisory and Execution SVP

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience managing complex programs and projects with internal and external resources following a structured methodology.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Technical proficiencies in MS Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead program managers on complex programs managing all activities in lifecycle associated with projects/programs that are long-term, cross lines of business, and high in risk, scope and complexity with a broad impact.
• Must be able to work at designated Citi location in 3 days / week.
• PMP or PRINCE2 certification. Or the ability to obtain certification within 1 year of employment.

Responsibilities

• Be the example of program management excellence by aligning your programs to the PM Practices.
• Establish and execute governance aligned to PM Taxonomy for your assigned work efforts; continually adapts governance based on evolving program requirements.
• Provide challenge to status’s reported to highlight risk.
• Maintain alignment to the approved engagement strategy.
• Manage resources within the program to ensure appropriate workload within the team; continually assesses the program’s resourcing strategy and escalates to the EL for enterprise or strategic resources when necessary.
• Provide the benefit of your experience and network to our clients and assigned initiatives and programs.
• Drive accountability and engagement by holding oneself and the team accountable for deliverables and performance of the program.
• Demonstrate advanced judgment and conduct in-depth quantitative or qualitative analysis to structure and solve problems and develop new, innovative solutions.
• Manage, mentor and coach team members to elicit their best performance while partnering with the Engagement Lead and people managers to build out skills and/or identify high performing individuals.
• Actively build and manage the PMAE relationship with the client. Works as a partner to build strong relationships with senior project and program stakeholders.
• Implement and leverage the enhanced PM practices to drive value to your clients and stakeholders, work as a partner and deliver results. Maintain 100% compliance.
• Proactively identify and act on opportunities to manage risk through streamlining, simplifying and eliminated redundancies.
• Act strategically by anticipating and designing changes to business systems, processes, templates, and tools in response to initiative/program needs.
• Employ excellent communication skills to negotiate and to articulate complex recommendations and build organizational competency in the use of updated methods and models.
• Set direction and tone of the work by driving the pace and providing clear effective communication.
• Capture and document lessons learned, sharing experiences across PMAE. Identify best practice work product examples and communicate same to the administrators of Sophy (PMAE best practice repository).
• Increase the value proposition of PMAE engagements by providing domain expertise in program management while maintaining focus on the program benefit realization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience in a large corporation, within the financial sector is a plus.
• Finance or accounting experience as a plus.
• Experience with enterprise program management tools.