Project Manager 2

Job Description

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At Wells Fargo, we want to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. We’re looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do. Join our diverse and inclusive team where you’ll feel valued and inspired to contribute your unique skills and experience.

Help us build a better Wells Fargo. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.

Wealth and Investment Management (WIM) businesses build enduring client relationships through sound, thoughtful and objective advice. We help our clients by developing individualized plans for everything from retirement goals to business succession planning, to family legacy intentions. Services include comprehensive planning and advice, investment management, brokerage, private banking, estate planning strategies, trust, and both individual and institutional retirement.

The WIM Portfolio Delivery Group offers process and program management for a variety of initiatives. Primarily, the group provides WIM leadership for enterprise and cross-WIM initiatives and manages project governance for WIM projects.

The Project Manager 2 within the WIM Portfolio Delivery is accountable for direct and independent management of primarily moderate risk projects (occasionally low or high risk), and/or participates as a member of larger effort(s) to independently manage sub-program component(s) of moderate complexity under the purview of a program/project leader.

Responsibilities Include:

• Influences sponsors and stakeholders to promote success of project prioritization and obstacle management.
• Seeks counsel of peers, stakeholders, and/or program/project leads in times of highly unusual or complex ambiguity, and adapts planning, communications, and engagements accordingly.
• Incorporates business organizational/systems knowledge and navigation to anticipate change impacts, ensuring full understanding of project impacts and comprehensive engagement strategies.
• Performs all usual duties of a Project Manager in accordance with policy, methodology, and artifact creation, including needs identification, resource requirements, project dependencies, planning, and progression, financials management; status reporting, prolific and effective communications, ongoing risk assessment and adaptation, and appropriate escalation strategies and implementation.
• Incorporates regular and appropriate consultation with business and other stakeholders to validate project trajectory and project performance feedback throughout the project lifecycle.
• This Project Manager may be responsible for matrix managing other PMs and/or Project Coordinators.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: project management, project delivery, project methodologies, digital product/program management, strategic planning or implementation

Desired Qualifications

• Experience building partnerships and consulting effectively with leadership
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile project methodologies
• Ability to manage complex projects in a large enterprise environment
• Ability to manage full life cycle projects that vary in scope and complexity
• Ability to track project financials
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Knowledge and understanding of financial services industry: wealth management, brokerage, or retirement
• Knowledge and understanding of project management methodologies: creation of business cases, project initiation, development of comprehensive business requirements, and identification of project interdependencies
• Experience communicating with business partners and project managers
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, and Project) skills
• A BS/BA degree or higher

Other Desired Qualifications

• Ability to lead projects/initiatives with high risk and complexity
• Ability to manage complex multiyear projects
• Ability to develop SharePoint project tracking work flows
• Ability to deliver multiple concurrent projects or large scale individual projects
• Expertise with Well Fargo’s Enterprise Project Methodology (EPM) and the Enterprise Project Methodology Tool (EPMT)
• Ability to manage large, complex, cross-matrix organization that includes: multiple business, technology and risk disciplines with direct leadership; the development of the strategy for information security; and implementation of roadmaps for the Enterprise
• Knowledge and understanding of Implementation strategy development and delivery
• Strong leadership, risk management, organization and problem solving skills
• Experience working with third-party vendors

Job Expectations

• Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening

Salary Information

The salary range displayed below is based on a Full-time 40 hour a week schedule.

NC-Charlotte: Min: $78,100 Mid: $110,000
MO-Saint Louis: Min: $78,100 Mid: $110,000
NC-Charlotte: Min: $78,100 Mid: $110,000

Disclaimer

All offers for employment with Wells Fargo are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. Wells Fargo will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state and Federal law, including Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.

Wells Fargo is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.