The Global Banking Finance & Business Management team is seeking a business management professional to support the Global Banking Chief Product Officer and Product Owners.  This role will implement portfolio management practices and work across Product, Design and Tech organizations to ensure collaboration and alignment on product strategy, roadmaps, deliverables and outcomes.

This is a high-impact opportunity on our Finance & Business Management team ensuring senior management across Global Banking also have visibility into major initiatives and business outcomes that support strategic objectives.

Job Summary
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Business Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding the product strategy, high-level roadmaps and initiatives and ensuring Product, Design and Technology groups have clearly articulated deliverables to support these objectives.

Additionally, this role will be accountable for ad-hoc projects in support of Global Banking objectives and business strategy. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter, with excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. 

Job responsibilities

Partner with product, design, technology and finance leaders to define, govern and report on the linkage between product strategy, technology execution and the achievement of business outcomes. Attend Pi / Quarterly planning events to understand the high-level initiatives and work with product and technology stakeholders to ensure comprehensive roadmaps are defined with key initiatives and related deliverables.  Collaborate with Product, Design and Tech to ensure initiatives and deliverables are reflected in project and task management systems such as JIRA and Pi (internal PPM system). Coordinate and manage cross-product dependencies to ensure seamless integration and alignment across multiple teams and projects. Support the Quarterly Product Review (QPR) process ensuring each Product Line accurately depicts their respective roadmap, progress against outcomes and status of underlying deliveries. As initiatives are defined, work closely with other members of Finance & Business Management to assign product, design and technology resources to projects for financial tracking purposes. Identify and track/report on key risks and issues across the portfolio. Ensure mitigation plans are well defined and tracked through completion. Ensure deliverables and milestones are well framed and demonstrate a progressive realization of Objectives and Key Results.  Work with Global Banking Product Office to ensure adherence to investment governance standards, product taxonomy changes and overall product hygiene/attributes. Ensure that dependencies across the portfolio are owned, tracked and managed with clear relationships defined. Coach/Train individuals on proper usage of investment governance tools and how to define milestones in a clear, concise, and outcome-based manner.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or other related area 10+ years of prior business management, product management and/or finance experience 10+ years of Commercial or Investment Banking experience Experience with firmwide project portfolio management (PPM) systems Working knowledge of Agile development methodologies / standards. Good understanding of agile product development lifecycle Strong interpersonal, influencing and listening skills – ability to interact with colleagues at all levels and achieve goals without direct control over resources Exceptional written and verbal communications and ability to tailor message and style to different audiences  Advanced skills in Excel (synthesizing large data sets), ability to present conclusions concisely in PowerPoint able to both define and deliver to conclusion a strategic agenda across multiple groups Have a strong business acumen and a strategic mindset that can unpack complex problems, build solutions for them, and manage their execution. Ability to multi-task in fast paced environment while meeting objectives and deadlines Strong judgment and ability to handle confidential/sensitive information IT Strategy and/or Program Management Office (PMO) experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience in the technology business management within the financial services industry Proven ability to operate within the product development life cycle and agile methodologies  Experience with tracking and reporting on Key Metrics