Senior Program Manager - Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Senior Program Manager - Bilingual (English / Spanish)

Location Address : Hybrid Scarborough 2 days / week

Contract Duration : ASAP to Oct 31, 2024, approx. 9 months

Possibility of extension- YES

Business group : Project Delivery & Support is a centralized project management office that supports various technology teams across the bank, oversees the delivery of large-scale IT projects for a variety of teams.

Responsible for ensuring the projects have the proper team to complete effectively.

Project / Program : International Wealth Management Program that requires an experienced Project Manager fluent in Spanish (oral and written) with data remediation and data migration experience, preferably someone who has worked with local clients in Mexico or Chile.

Responsibilities :

• Manage and ensure the successful delivery of complex projects / programs involving multiple teams from different groups across the bank, as well as external vendors when required
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills to develop and maintain high functioning project teams
• Influences business project decisions with direct impact on financials or operating results
• Ability to independently run executive Steerco meetings with Group Heads, EVPs, and SVPs
• Takes a strategic focus aligned to business priorities
• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge Recommends technical strategy within a technical domain, may investigate and evaluate new technologies
• Impacts the technical direction and resource allocation for products, services or platforms supported
• Leads the solution of risks and issues that have a broad impact on the project team accountability typically spans across multiple products, a line of businesses or with significant enterprise system impact
• Defines and maintains the roadmap and project budget

Must - Have Skills :

1) Bilingual in English / Spanish

2) 10+ years of project management experience in large corporations, with at least 5 of those in program management

3) 5+ years experience in Wealth Management

4) 10+ years’ experience leading and presenting at Executive leadership steering committee meetings (SVP, EVP+ audience) must have

5) 5+ years’ experience working with multiple countries, technical teams and vendors (ex. Mexico, Chile and / or Peru)

6) 10+ years managing large-scale global enterprise-wide application deployments

7) Experience with Data Remediation and / or Data Migration

Nice-To-Have Skills :

1) Financial institution experience

2) Previous experience managing projects using Agile project methodologies

Best VS. Average Candidate :

Executive presence is required and crucial to success in this role; as well as experience in Data Remediation and or Data Migration.

As well Spanish speakers would be prioritized.