Portfolio Delivery Manager

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for leading a team to maximize the value delivered through multiple programs and/or value streams within a small, less complex delivery portfolio. Key responsibilities include managing and developing the team through coaching, mentoring and feedback, aligning strategy, and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy, investment funding, portfolio operations, and governance. Job expectations include managing the portfolio, ensuring compliance to standards, and driving continuous improvement to operations and governance.

Position Summary

This job is responsible for driving the execution of the GMT Operating Model. This requires an understanding of Trading and Technology capabilities for train setup across multiple functional areas. Key responsibilities include communicating work objectives, coordinating delivery, facilitating sync points across teams, providing end-to-end visibility into the health of the deliverables, and managing program risk and compliance to standards. Job expectations include ensuring designed trains meet Enterprise/GMT Operating Model and can deliver in terms of functionality, quality, timeline, and cost.

Partner with Business and Technology teams to define delivery trains for Programs, LOB Verticals and Technology Horizontals. Perform analysis to determine team fungibility and AIT alignment to value stream capabilities. Align roles to Op Model definitions with efficiencies found in separating execution-based roles from Agile operation roles. There are multiple trading capabilities across technology teams within GMT across Front Office, QSG, Qz Core, Finance, Operations, Market Risk and enterprise teams; this role must be able to understand and enable train design with these functional interdependencies. Responsible for establishing stakeholder relationships, tracking, and delivery execution of all GMT train design. Coordinates and facilitates routines to support delivery – e.g. kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, tollgates, etc. Plans and coordinates delivery and dependencies with across multiple teams. Facilitates dependency management/risk management/impediment removal for the defined deliverables. Promotes/facilitates communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline. Gathers/facilitates status updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to delivery, risks/issues, and schedule. Ensures that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the sponsor/stakeholders. Ensures deliverables comply with Enterprise Change Management standards. Supports resource planning for delivery/execution. Individual Contributor.

Responsibilities:

• Directs and leads a delivery team aligned to a portfolio and mentors Delivery Leads
• Manages and improves portfolio operations and governance processes, ensuring risks and roadblocks are escalated and resolved quickly
• Builds relationships with business and technology executives across multiple organizations, as well as Compliance and Risk
• Partners with the key stakeholders and leaders to define the vision and creating the portfolio roadmap aligned to strategic goals
• Provides status updates and reporting for the portfolio to stakeholders and leadership pertaining to the desired outcomes, delivery, risks, issues, and schedule
• Manages overall portfolio financials, Profit and Loss (P&L), and performance
• Ensures adherence with Enterprise Change Management standards

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 10+ years of experience supporting Trading Desks, Functional Partners such as Finance, Ops, Market Risk, and associated technology systems
• The individual demonstrates an understanding of customer’s goals and effectively participates in the development and implementation of business solutions.
• Effectively manages project risk. Coordinates the work efforts of multiple functional teams through a project plan.
• Manages basic scope control procedures.
• Develops documentation; monitors and reports project status; assesses the effectiveness and accuracy of documentation.
• Initiates and maintains reporting relationships with project stakeholders.
• Analyzes and reports project status. Monitors project performance to maintain the quality of services, deliverables, and content.
• Effectively assists in directing both internal and external resources to achieve business solutions within project guidelines.
• Collaborates and communicates with other project managers and development leaders to coordinate cross-project initiatives and activities.
• Identify and eliminate obstacles to solution plans, business goals or implementation.
• Assists in the development and implementation of contingency plans.

Desired Qualifications

• Strong Business analysis skill set
• Presentation/Audience awareness,
• Possesses a commanding presence
• Ability to provide effective status update
• Recent Global Technology experience

Skills:

• Collaboration
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Risk Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Data Management
• Financial Management
• Solution Delivery Process
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)Pay and benefits informationPay range$142,000.00 - $204,300.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.BenefitsThis role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.