Western Alliance Bank
Program Manager
Phoenix, AZ · Senior
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About the role
- This entails capturing the strategic vision of business heads and helping to distill and organize the strategic goals and objectives in executable programs and projects.
- You'll consistently keep the overall goal of supporting a growing back at the forefront of all their planning and analysis while managing business strategic road maps as programs.
- You'll have exposure to and influence with senior members of departments relative to programs and will prepare appropriate consumable documentation for meetings with various audiences.
Responsibilities
- Develop trust with your assigned business lines and help draft their strategic plan in line with the organization's objectives through collaborative discussions with business partners, shared services, and risk management.
- Manage and utilize change management techniques to execute according to defined timelines keeping in mind time and expense usage.
- Help manage and track the Program Portfolio.
- Provide program-level metrics to assess and track financials, risk, resources and other key Program Management functions to the businesses you support as well as leadership.
- Identify, document, and resolve dependencies related to people, product, and processes across all WAB Program efforts.
- Document and drive continuous process improvement for Program Management as well as other maturity opportunities as outlined in the strategic plan.
- May lead and develop a team; responsible for hiring, coaching, performance management, training and development.
- As a Program Manager in the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) you'll help lines of business develop and execute strategic roadmaps.
- You'll establish trust with the lines of business you support and manage the budget, initiatives, resource maximization and introducing enterprise changes due to strategic visions through planning and executing on people change management plans.
- You may manage a small team of Project Managers, and other EPMO resources assigned to support their programs.
Requirements
- 7+ years of related experience in Project Management or similar field.
- Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
- Advanced experience in various EPMO functions including governance, resource capacity management, talent development and technology program management.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in related field required
- Masters or MBA in related field preferred.
- Previous leadership experience preferred.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of general banking operations, including deposit operations, loan administration, treasury management and/or other commercial banking products and services preferred.
- Advanced financial industry experience preferred.
- Project Management Professional preferred.
- ADKAR certification preferred.
Benefits
- Help direct and evaluate Program Management vision and build out of executable projects for inclusion in the master plan/schedule of Enterprise Programs/Projects the EPMO maintains and manages.
Company info
- Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation.
- Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
- If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488.
- When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue.
- We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.
- Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands - Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank - that remain part of the company's heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company.
- Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information.
- © Western Alliance Bancorporation
- Advanced influencing skills and ability to gain buy-in across multiple customers/stakeholders.
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