Strategic Initiatives, Product Portfolio Delivery Manager - Vice President

Embrace the challenge of adapting to shifting priorities and resources while contributing to a dynamic team and applying your expertise, strategic thinking skills, and operational excellence across product lines.   As Strategic Initiatives, Product Portfolio Operations Manager in Payments’ Acquiring Platform and Rails (APR), you are a foundational member of a team responsible for implementing connectivity strategies across the product space, while being directly responsible for creating structures that enhance coordination in our product line.
The Strategic Initiatives Vice President is responsible for ensuring leaders and teams across Acquiring Platform & Rails’ (APR) are fully connected and aligned to the business’ vision.  They support leaders in communicating the direction and progress of APR to key internal stakeholders, building and organizing materials for internal stakeholders while managing communications and meetings at the executive level.  They own key governance forums, using strong interpersonal skills and thought leadership to drive results and effectively deliver key decisions and outcomes. To accomplish all this, the successful candidate will be a self-starter that can achieve results in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple engagements simultaneously.     Job responsibilities

• Works across products to help ensure delivery against business objectives while coordinating reporting and communications plans for portfolio management operations and change initiatives
• Enables operational efficiency by supporting training, maturation, needs assessments, and continuous improvement practices
• Drives adaptation and modification of our product-line framework to ensure cross-product priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs are realized
• Implements a product-level collection strategy consisting of controls, financials, and resourcing needs
• Serve as advisor and program manager to Strategy Execution and Delivery leadership (MD & ED level), supporting their work across the business' top tier priorities
• Maintain recurring meetings to review and discuss business outcomes at the leadership and APR level, managing agendas, building executive-level presentations and communicating results
• Effectively manage junior and senior stakeholders, understanding their needs and keeping them aligned to the program’s goals
• Lead ad hoc projects and initiatives with a range of product, operations and strategy objectives
• Own the program's Governance framework, providing oversight and ensuring it is effectively planned, executed, monitored and controlled
• Partner with Product Owners, Program Managers, Business/Product Controls, and the APR Portfolio Office to manage and control status and progress reporting, ensuring it is maintained and communicated consistently across internal teams, external stakeholders, and executive leadership 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in program management or performance optimization
• Proven ability to manage and implement operational effectiveness initiatives
• Proven ability to operate within the product development life cycle and agile methodologies
• Highly organized - simultaneously manage, prioritize, and deliver multiple projects and streams of communication with great attention to detail, while also understanding how tasks fit into the broader goals of the program 
• Cross Functional collaboration skills - ability to comfortably and effectively communicate and influence senior management 
• Communicating program change – identify and develop the key message for the target audience, both internal and external to APR
• Critical thinking/creative problem-solving – adapt approach based on new insights and identify the appropriate alternative to pursue
• PowerPoint design – design and build presentation materials that effectively communicate key messages through text, charts, and visualization

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree with graduate degree in business or communications preferred
• Tech delivery knowledge – familiarity and/or understanding of modern technology delivery processes and methodologies

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards