Lead Project Manager

About this role:

The Chief Operating Office (COO) is responsible for delivering a more consistent approach to business operations across Wells Fargo, strengthening the company’s risk and control infrastructure, and delivering effective and efficient enterprise services to employees and customers.

The COO group includes Operations supporting five LOB CEOs. Operations functions include payments, contact center operations, Operations regulatory, tax utilities, within our businesses, lending operations, Intelligent Automation, Business Process Modeling and other functions.

In this role, you will:

• Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence success of programs, project performance and prioritization for planning, communications, and engagements across change management
• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring full understanding of project impacts and comprehensive engagement
• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large scale and require planning and progression, financial management, status reporting, effective communication and ongoing risk assessment
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to more experienced leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are companywide to support operations using organizational, strategical, institutional knowledge and navigation to anticipate change impacts
• Engage with key stakeholders, executive leadership, project leads, project team, portfolio sponsors and portfolio leaders to promote success of programs and project performance or prioritization

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:

• Experience working in a fast-paced matrixed environment in Financial Services industry.
• Familiarity with Agile concepts and experience with Agile practice
• Ability to manage large scale products/programs in a complex environment across multiple lines of business.
• Experience with Portfolio Reviews.
• Experience and knowledge of Business Resiliency.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to articulate a complex problem, initiate action, make difficult decisions and generate creative solutions.
• Exceptional facilitation skills to lead discussion that result in consensus and buy-in
• Experience leading highly complex Programs and leading other project managers.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to create/modify operational policies, procedures and/or operating models.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to identify, document, track and lead stakeholders through assessment and/or remediation of multiple risks, issues and impediments simultaneously.
• Exceptional consulting skills and experience
• Change management experience.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills to include executive presence.
• Experience working with ambiguity, changing priorities and deadlines.

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
• Based on applicant volume the posting may come down early

Locations:

• Charlotte, North Carolina (Uptown: Three Wells Fargo Center - 401 S. Tryon St.; CIC -8505 IBM Dr.)
• Chandler, Arizona (A Building - 2700 S. Price Rd.)
• Minneapolis, Minnesota (2701 Wells Fargo Way)
• Saint Louis, Missouri (F&L Building - 2801 Market St.)
• San Antonio, Texas (Wiseman Campus - 4101 Wiseman Blvd.)
• West Des Moines, Iowa (800 S. Jordan Creek Pkwy)

Base Compensation Range:

$96,600 - $171,800 USD Annual

Eligible for discretionary annual bonus

Posting End Date: 

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

Applicants with Disabilities

To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process, visit Disability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.

Drug and Alcohol Policy

Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace.  Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.