Consumer Lending Strategic Initiatives Program Manager

Overview

The Strategic Initiative Program Manager leads initiatives that deliver the Consumer Lending organization’s strategy. Drives strategies and programs that require cross partner collaboration, ensuring holistic implementation. Enables capabilities to deliver holistic client relationships with Truist, business growth, and synergies across lending.

Regular or Temporary: Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description: The Strategic Initiative Program Manager leads initiatives that deliver the Consumer Lending organization’s strategy. Drives strategies and programs that require cross partner collaboration, ensuring holistic implementation. Enables capabilities to deliver holistic client relationships with Truist, business growth, and synergies across lending.

• Leads and drives strategic initiative(s):
  Cultivates and implements strategy designed to deliver solutions supporting and achieving Truist mission and strategic objectives.
• Conceptualizes ideas and associated benefits; translates ideas into initiative(s) with specifications and functional requirements (supported by research and development).
• Delivers solutions with business case development and approval, sourcing and financial approval processes, Risk model engagement, and business and technical functional requirements.
• Interfaces across levels of the organization to design, present, champion and implement.
• Leads change, influences leadership, educates and drives initiatives through multiple channels and levels of teammates/leaders.
• Serves as a key contact by providing thought leadership to all levels of the organization, partners and execution teams to ideate and develop solutions to achieve strategic objectives.
• Communicates success to senior leadership and others with concise communication to enhance and manage alignment of strategy intent to optimization.
• Project and Program Management: lead execution teams to ensure strategic programs have a long-term sustainable path to deployment and post-deployment.
• Engages, partners and collaborates across a highly matrixed set of internal cross-functional partners, stakeholders, and business partners that are often within a different reporting line of business.
• Ensures effective Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, change management, Sourcing, Risk and quality management.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent financial industry education or related training.
• 8+ years of experience in lending and/or financial services.
• Exhibits outstanding presentation skills; both verbal and in presentation material creation.
• Experience in program and project management.
• Innovative mindset, strategic thinker with team experience, analytical aptitude, strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to gain and use insights to ideate, develop and drive strategic projects.
• Demonstrates executive presence and leadership capabilities to gain consensus from Sr. Leadership and cross-functional teams in time-sensitive situations.
• Develops strong relationships.

• Knowledge of banking industry and innovation trends.
• Certification in Lean Six Sigma, PMP and/or PgMP or similar process improvement, facilitation, and project management methodologies.
• Experience with industry technology and platforms.
• Working knowledge and understanding of Value Stream Planning/Agile Delivery Strategies.
• Experience in management; leading teammates/leaders directly.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation:
All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their…