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Corporate Real Estate and Location Strategy Project Management Office, Vice President
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group
Tempe, AZ, United States
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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), the 5th largest financial group in the world with total assets of over $2.4 trillion (as ranked by SNL Financial, April 2016) and 140,000 colleagues in nearly 50 countries. In the U.S., we’re 13,000 strong, working together to positively impact every customer, organization, and community we serve. We achieve this by delivering on our values, putting people first, fostering long-term relationships built on honesty and mutual understanding, and inspiring the best in each other. This is all part of our inclusive, high-performing culture supported by Total Rewards that include our cash balance pension plan. Join a team that’s working to fulfill its vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group.
Job Summary:
The CRE and Location Strategy PMO, Vice President drives a culture of business excellence by providing guidance, vision, and organization to the cross-functional team responsible for the disposition of work requests for the CRE and Location Strategy team. Key inputs decision inputs include understanding business drivers, financial benefits and/or improved customer satisfaction in addition to prioritizing the execution of corporate strategy. This role will provide the vision, expertise, and leadership required to ensure a rigorous due diligence process is followed to enable a successful fulfillment process across multiple disciplines. This role will serve as the change agent, internal consultant, and mentor by working closely across multiple channel managers. This role will report to the Director, Location Strategy Governance, and be located in the Phoenix Metro location.
Major Responsibilities:
• Lead and direct the PMO and advance the culture at all levels of the organization, from leadership levels to the individual contributor level. Serve as a change agent.
• Partner and engage with stakeholders to build a culture of continuous improvement. Utilizing the PM Skillset, guide MUFG stakeholders and functional teams and identify sustainable approaches to measure and monitor the organization’s progress to enable disposition of requests and engagement of resources.
• Responsible for supporting MUFG initiatives through a prioritization process to ensure projects are aligned to and fully support the financial plan and strategic goals
• Partner and engage with IT, Business Continuity, and stakeholders to facilitate the identification, prioritization, sequencing, and balancing of work requests for both the Location Strategy and CRE teams to ensure alignment with the corporate strategy and business objectives
• Provide IT and business management with timely, ongoing assessments of PMO book of work
• Support Senior leaders in Location Strategy and CRE through the review and intake of new requests in addition to the sourcing of Strategic initiatives
• Proactively plan for allocation of appropriate due diligence to meet timely disposition of business units’ initiatives
• Provide guidance and management oversight to the PMO Business Analyst to ensure proactive planning for sourcing of business units’ objectives and in alignment with various Strategic priorities
• Work collaboratively with peers in IT, BCMP, CRE, HR, Corp Security and Location Strategy for awareness and planning. Ensure collaboration with the IT teams to address all points of integration and consider costs / resources in alignment with request due diligence
• Ensure adherence to processes and methodologies for new project requests and business analysis based on industry best practices while driving process improvements and innovations within the department
• Keep stakeholders (and initiators) apprised of request status and Risks/Issues
• Ability to work effectively in a complex environment involving rapidly changing priorities and provide teams with guidance and direction
• Facilitate direct reports’ performance reviews, identifying training and development requirements and plans
• Help enforce the change management process to achieve targets and act as a change agent within the organization
• Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
• BS/BA degree
• PMP Certified
• Minimum 4 years of project management experience, with at least five years of relevant industry / functional experience
• 3 years people management experience and/or proven leadership experience in a matrixed organization
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with cross-functional teams and manage differing points of view
• Ability to effectively manage conflict
• Demonstrated knowledge and practice of project management principles, methodologies, and terminology, including project life-cycle
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Strong collaboration skills and experience building relationships in a cross functional work environment
• Lead: Inspire others to work collaboratively to set and achieve aggressive goals, facilitate timely and relevant decision making, resolve conflict, deliver tough messages, and execute with limited information and ambiguity
• Adapt and influence: Acute situational awareness, comfortable under pressure, frequent change or unpredictability, strong influencing and negotiation skills, as well as the ability to navigate a matrixed organization/situation
• Solve problems and think independently: Ability to identify and structure complex problems, prioritize issues and solution development, plan and conduct work, process information quickly, and place information in to an intuitive context or framework
• Communicate effectively: Deliver clear and concise written and verbal messages in a structured manner, manage differing points of view, and tailor communications/style to audience, and craft presentations with quality expected for senior leaders
• Utilize project management tools: Ability to build and maintain project schedules using Microsoft Project; advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated characteristics of a change agent to include: patient yet persistent, asks tough questions, spots opportunities for growth, prioritizes and deliver results, builds strong relationships built on trust, exhibits ownership, responsibility, and effective listening skills
• Advanced level of competency with office productivity tools such as MS Office and process mapping tools such as Visio
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
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