Position Overview

At PNC, our people are our greatest differentiator and competitive advantage in the markets we serve. We are all united in delivering the best experience for our customers. We work together each day to foster an inclusive workplace culture where all of our employees feel respected, valued and have an opportunity to contribute to the company’s success. As a Strategy & Planning Director you will join PNC's Enterprise Change Office. This position is based in Pittsburgh, PA. Open to considering candidates willing to travel and/or relocate for the position.

This position is primarily based in a PNC location. Responsibilities require time in the office or in the field on a regular basis. Some responsibilities may be performed remotely, at manager’s discretion.

The Enterprise Change Office provides a comprehensive approach to planning, managing and promoting the end-to-end change process which enables transparency of the risk and value of change using consistent tools, standard processes and performance metrics.

The Strategy and Planning Director will be responsible for leading PNC’s Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) function and the processes, business capabilities, and outcomes that aid in ensuring alignment of investments/initiatives to and value delivery towards PNC’s strategic goals. The Director of SPM, and the SPM team, work directly with PNC leadership to ensure that funded and prioritized initiatives, programs, or projects are aligned to our long-term strategic goals and capability roadmaps. The Director of SPM ensures strategy-to-execution alignment of annual operating plans and multi-year roadmaps across the various PNC business units. The SPM team provides frameworks for standardizing, measuring, and reporting on initiatives, programs, and projects ensuring they tie to PNC’s broader strategic goals. The SPM Director coordinates with the other business level and product level Portfolio/Program/Project Management teams in PNC to help standardize practices, methods, and processes ensuring efficient portfolio operations and overall aligned governance to best practices. The Director of SPM ensures a ‘single source of truth’ for updates to PNC Executive Leadership and the PNC Board, as requested.

Primary Responsibilities:
•Thought leader and change agent in the establishment of enterprise-wide strategy for unified portfolio, initiative, program, and project management across PNC.
•Designs, implements and manages processes and policies related to strategic portfolio management. Advises on tool development.
•Implements standards and structures to support portfolio development and execution, including cross-functional reviews to give line of sight and support coordination across the portfolio of initiatives.
•Establishes processes to support and communicate initiative status and progress towards established goals. Provides regular updates on portfolio performance, status, and value delivery.
•Continuously improves portfolio processes to support nimbleness (more timely adjustments, improved pace from opportunity identification to action). Establish a rolling model of Demand intake and approval.
•Applies best practices for portfolio execution and management and actively demonstrates expertise in enterprise level strategic portfolio and program/project management systems, software, and aligned tools.
•Leads the coordination, execution, and reporting of portfolio status during the annual operations planning process.
•Coordination and alignment with the other portfolio and project management teams to ensure governance through agreement on standards and practices.
•Executes change management as needed on transformation work executed by the team.

Job Description

• Leads strategic planning group to execute initiatives, including analysis, oversight and support for solution development. Works closely with senior leadership to formulate and execute business strategic plans.
• Sets vision to identify strategic plan and/or specific initiatives to achieve business goals.
• Defines, monitors and uses metrics to assess performance and continuously improve the line of business. Monitors progress towards goals and recommends modifications to the plan