Lead Project Manager

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Project Manager to lead cross-functional product and business initiatives from planning through implementation and post-production support. This role partners closely with Product Owners, Scrum teams, Technology, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Release Management teams to drive successful project delivery, manage risks, coordinate UAT and incident resolution activities, and ensure business objectives are met.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives managing all activities in a project life-cycle such as initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing associated with projects that are long-term and cross functional with broad impact, scope and complexity
• Act as key participant in large-scale project planning and budgets for change management
• Review, analyze and initiate complex multi-faceted enterprise support operations, organizational systems knowledge and navigation to anticipate change impacts that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
• Ensure full understanding of project impacts that translate into comprehensive engagement strategies
• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted situations, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end while developing and implementing program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics
• Demonstrate understanding of policy, methodology and artifact creation that influence and lead change management to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Strategically collaborate and consult with stakeholders, project leads, mid-level to senior managers sponsors and business partners to clarify and define project requirements and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Project Management and Methodologies, Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree holder (4-year course) in Business or any related program.
• 7+ years of project management experience with superior project management skills.
• Experience managing product and/or project delivery in an Agile environment, with strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, Jira, and Confluence, and experience working with and coordinating Scrum teams.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or other Agile-related certifications are preferred, along with experience supporting post-implementation activities, incident management, and production support processes.
• Ability to manage in a matrixed organizational environment.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, along with strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills.
• Strong understanding of core enterprise functions and capabilities.
• Experience working on large-scale organizational change initiatives while partnering closely with senior leaders across the enterprise.
• Ability to present and discuss information in a manner that persuades, educates, and enhances understanding at all levels.
• Demonstrated leadership through high energy, transparency, relationship management, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive change.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, combined with a strategic business mindset, vision, and process-oriented approach.

Job Expectations:

• Support a regular work schedule of 8:00 PM to 5:00 AM Manila time.
• Follow a hybrid work arrangement, with onsite work from Monday to Wednesday and remote work on Thursday and Friday.
• Observe fixed rest days on Saturdays and Sundays.
• Follow the Philippine holiday calendar.
• Demonstrate flexibility to attend meetings during holidays or outside regular working hours, as business needs require.

Posting End Date:

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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