Lead Project Manager- Consumer Lending Shared Services

About this role:

Wells Fargo’s Consumer Lending Shared Services organization is seeking a Lead Project Manager to​​​ partner with Product teams and Business Sponsors to facilitate initiative and/or Product delivery in an Agile environment.  In this role you will support product teams in delivering value by connecting the right people and planning aspects of feature and story refinement, testing and release needs.  As a Lead Project Manager, you will play a critical role in supporting the product team’s evolution to a sustainable state by facilitating the creation of trusted relationships across product teams, identifying connection opportunities, and driving collaboration so teams can deliver effectively together.

The Consumer Lending Shared Services (CLSS) team is responsible for delivering common services across the Consumer Lending organization. CLSS does that by leading cross-business initiatives that enhance customer experiences, strengthen risk management, and increase our overall efficiency across the Consumer Lending group.

In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives managing all activities in a project life cycle such as initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing associated with projects that are long-term and cross functional with broad impact, scope and complexity

• Act as key participant in large-scale project planning and budgets for change management

• Review, analyze and initiate complex multi-faceted enterprise support operations, organizational systems knowledge and navigation to anticipate change impacts that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors

• Ensure full understanding of project impacts that translate into comprehensive engagement strategies

• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted situations, demonstrating ownership of the entire process from beginning to end while developing and implementing program and project level processes, procedures and performance metrics

• Demonstrate understanding of policy, methodology and artifact creation that influence and lead change management to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives

• Strategically collaborate and consult with stakeholders, project leads, mid-level to senior managers sponsors and business partners to clarify and define project requirements and achieve goals

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Project Management and Methodologies, Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Tableau, SharePoint, and Confluence

• Experience leading large planning efforts across multiple product teams in Agile Methodology

• Proven ability to drive matrixed teams to achieve results in an agile environment

• Experience identifying strategic solutions to improve agile delivery

• Experience with change management

• Experience with Agile transformation including moving teams and organizations from Waterfall to Agile methodologies

• Ability to make timely and independent judgment decisions while working in a fast-paced and results driven environment

• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important

• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• 3 + years’ experience with Agile

• 3 + years’ experience with Jira

• Experience with strategy development and implementation

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

• Experience in Consumer Lending

• Ability to communicate effectively, in both written and verbal formats, with senior executive level leaders.

• Financial Services experience

Job Expectations:

• Hybrid work schedule

• Candidate must reside within a commutable distance of one of the locations listed on the posting

• No visa sponsorship is available for this position

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position

Posting End Date: 

12 Apr 2025

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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