Executive Program Manager Job Description
Executive program manager
provides thought leadership around the use of industry standard tools and models (including commercially available models and tools) by leveraging experience and current industry trends.
Executive Program Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Managing the program level deliverables including navigating solutions across a number of cross-line of business and functional stakeholders
Leading and supporting the PMO team (six project managers across a number of functions) to ensure a consistent approach and that workstreams are interlinking appropriately
Liaising with Technology partners on technical aspects of the implementation plan
Managing a key workstream with potentially significant global impact
Facilitating various project and steering group meetings
Appropriately escalating and recording issues and risks and their resolution
Quality assurance disciplines for completion of project milestones
Negotiation of solutions
Provide governance and oversight into the controls design and testing of the firm’s IT General Controls (ITGCs) as related to the corporate SOX program
Lead a forum of the firm’s IT SOX testing community to ensure consistent testing practices and discussion of best practices
Executive Program Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Executive Program Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, EMT, ITIL, DAWIA, FAC-P/PM, LOB, III, DAU
Education for Executive Program Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the executive program manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Education, Management, MBA, Public Administration, Marketing, Graduate, Communications, Business/Administration, Engineering
Skills for Executive Program Manager
Desired skills for executive program manager include:
Commercial operations and service teams
Communication plans
Consulting and education businesses
Financial and accounting mechanisms
If possible
Industry tools
Medical device technology and related clinical use models
Philips sales
Preferably with direct experience in systems currently used by Philips
Project and program management tools
Desired experience for executive program manager includes:
Publish monthly reports, or more frequently as needed, on the IT SOX program, including attainment of firmwide testing targets, analysis of deficiencies
Develop relationship with both Internal Audit and the external audit technology lead partner
Work with the SCO to publish annual official IT SOX Program memorandum
Provide thought leadership on Data initiatives
Partner with key business and technology representatives globally in order to drive business requirements, testing and overall delivery
Provide prompt, accurate and tailored status updates to core team and senior managers
Executive Program Manager Examples
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Executive Program Manager Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an executive program manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for executive program manager
- Develop and deploy Key Risk training curriculum
- Carry out Controls Awareness training for all levels within the Business and Operations team
- Responsible for establishing, refining and enforcing processes, policies and reporting related to governance and oversight of the Global Technology portfolio of projects
- Design and implement governance best practices, guidelines and repeatable processes
- Utilize Firmwide reporting tools and applications to consolidate and streamline metrics and reporting across Global technology and Lines of Business
- Ensure the Global Technology Lines of Business PMO organizations are coached/trained on standards, policies, and tools
- Producing detailed plans for the all phases of projects utilizing Microsoft Project that will form the base document to define roles, responsibilities and milestones
- Ownership of unified, consolidated work plan for DWM program across all relevant areas for the initiative including Product, Technology, Design, Operations, Client Service, Marketing, Strategy and other areas
- Responsible for continuously driving the DWM program forward including the development and deployment of brand new digital capabilities, the refinement and expansion of existing digital capabilities
- Establishing universally consistent project standards for entire DWM project portfolio in building and overseeing regular, robust reporting of program progress across a timeline and other dimensions
Qualifications for executive program manager
- 15+ years in financial services across multiple business lines
- 15+ years managing complex projects and programs
- 15+ years building and managing teams within financial services
- 15+ years designing and building solutions for complex business problems
- Proven track record of delivering results on time and within budget
- Broad and deep understanding of business and technology topics
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Our growing company is hiring for an executive program manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for executive program manager
- Work with executive director and faculty/co-director to pursue opportunities for Change.X and engage in the implementation of proposal and partnership activities
- Support network building, learning and knowledge sharing
- Support the Change.X content development
- Work with the School’s Marketing and Communications staff to support Change.X marketing
- Support degree program development and approval, and (with student services staff) operation of Master’s degree once approved
- Work with Student Services Coordinator to build and curate a space for the Change.X community
- Ownership of unified, consolidated work plan for DWM Thought Leadership program across all relevant areas for the initiative including GWM, CWM, Marketing, Technology, Design, Operations, and other areas
- Responsible for continuously driving the DWM Thought Leadership program forward including the development and deployment of brand new digital capabilities, the refinement and expansion of existing digital capabilities
- Establishing universally consistent project standards for entire Thought Leadership project portfolio in building and overseeing regular, robust reporting of program progress across a timeline and other dimensions
- Ground all stakeholders in a centralized source of detailed and up-to-date information about the DWM Thought Leadership initiative, and serve as primary point of contact for all detailed inquiries into program scope
Qualifications for executive program manager
- 6+ years of strong PMO experience (specifically governance)
- Experience in a highly performance metrics, analytical, fast-paced business where technology delivery is critical to success of the business
- Strong sense of prioritization and ability to execute against deliverables
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint, and the ability to develop and deliver presentations to all levels of management
- Self-organized team player
- 10+ years of program management experience, or equivalent project oversight and coordination role
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an executive program manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for executive program manager
- Proactively identifying key program risks and opportunities, and contributing innovative suggestions for improving Thought Leadership program and increasing its efficiency
- Consistently synchronize with working teams on detailed roadmaps of future content development, roll-outs and releases, the overall long-term strategic vision for thought leadership and it’s integration into the end-to-end DWM offering and experience
- Serve as a cross-functional leader to collaborate with design, engineering and marketing teams to drive digital transformation initiatives
- Recommend improvements across all aspects of an operating model - redesign of organizational structure, process efficiencies and technology enhancements
- Lead the implementation and adoption across various business lines in response to the digital roadmap
- Partner with senior leaders across Legal, Compliance, Risk, Technology and various business units to assess cross-border regulatory and operational implications
- Represent the online executive education program to internal and external constituencies
- Create and maintain a unified, consolidated work plan/roadmap for the DWM program across all relevant areas for the initiative including Product, Technology, Design, Operations, Client Service, Marketing, Strategy and other areas
- Help to define and establish universally consistent project standards for entire DWM project portfolio
- Create and maintain robust reporting of program progress tailored as needed for specific stakeholders
Qualifications for executive program manager
- Expertise in defining and building out rich project plans, and ideally their associated operating models
- Experience working within or advanced understand of an agile product development framework including continuous integration philosophies and other practices to increase speed to market
- Thorough understanding of the service/support infrastructure required to maintain a scalable online platform
- Working understanding of financial services regulatory environment and required control infrastructure
- 10 plus years of experience in or related to financial services and financial technology with demonstrated appreciation and aptitude for leading disciplined, complex projects within a business to business environment with sophisticated parties
- Experience with financial industry regulators a plus
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of executive program manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for executive program manager
- Develop tracking tools to manage issues, risks, cross dependencies, open items, resources and matters requiring escalation
- Create visual timelines and calendars needed to manage overall delivery
- Manage a change control / prioritization process for existing and new asks/requirements
- Prepare ad hoc analysis and presentations as needed on various elements of the program as needed
- Prepare all materials for frequent, recurring project meetings with appropriate stakeholders to ensure tight connectivity and directional alignment across the DWM program
- CFO Enablement including executive presentations, ad-hoc quantitative analysis, project execution, and organizational strategy
- Management of the F&BM workforce strategy, governance and reporting, including execution of productivity actions
- Program Management and execution of CAO specific initiatives
- CAO program management (PMO) governance and reporting
- Act as the deputy to the CFO, and a senior front office face off
Qualifications for executive program manager
- Excellent computer skills and proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Familiarity with integration of various digital, visual platforms and tools for communications effectiveness is desired
- 10+ years of strategic consulting, management consulting, project management, process improvement, business re-engineering experience, preferably within digital product development
- Financial services/business consultancy preferably in Wealth Management Advanced business degree preferred
- Proven ability to manage, develop, recruit and motivate international teams in through complex high priority initiatives
- Track record of a leadership style that fosters teamwork and collaboration
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for an executive program manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for executive program manager
- Develop strategic program roadmaps and plans, with oversight of planning, analytics, and implementation team responsible for a multi-workstream program agenda
- Scope problems, identify existing and prospective issues, and proactively remediate problems using a fact-based approach to solutioning
- Manage organizational change and development of operational models to support effective and impactful implementations from onset through to completion
- Engage, advise, and influence senior leaders and stakeholders throughout project lifecycles
- Build and maintain strategic relationship with key senior leaders and program stakeholders across GWM and Investment Management
- Provide leadership to and management of team members, including serving in a mentoring capacity
- Supports the CEO on a wide variety of strategic projects and initiatives
- Responsible for project risk, financial and issue monitoring, including weekly tracking, communication, and escalation
- Updates CEO, executives and private equity owners on key projects and initiatives
- Develops, standardizes and implements status reporting and communications to internal and external stakeholders
Qualifications for executive program manager
- Build a new standardized approach and process for tracking and collecting important start-up/VC activities and events across EMEA
- Ability to Think Big and translate broad visions and ambiguous concepts into structured plans and measureable metrics, then execute on those plans
- Understand the Agile product development framework
- Ability to manage tight delivery timelines and execute with calmness under pressure
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy required
- 5-10+ years of related experience including 2-4 years of experience in wealth management or a closely-related financial services organization