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Job Overview

The Project Lead is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Manages a large multi-faceted project/account/campaign or multiple projects at the same time.
• Owns project goals leveraging expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team.
• Organizes new challenges and drive business results.
• Uses best practice PMO methodology to create a project plan to fit the stakeholders/customers needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes.
• Drives end results of the project as a representative of the business.
• Works closely with the Customer, Sales Team, Engineering and Manufacturing to define a project scope and objectives for project members.
• Prepares, maintains, and submits clear and concise activity/progress reports and time recording/management reports.
• Assesses project risk potentials and discover potential problems before they occur.
• Applies a proactive approach in routinely tracking the project participant progress against project goals.
• Defines, teaches, and enforces the use of good project management practices such as techniques in resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled.
• Identifies and where required amends the approach to the context and constraints of each project.
• Constantly improving their own and their teams' skills through lessons-learned reviews at project completion.
• Possess the knowledge, skills and experience to be able to recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming.
• Articulates problems, bring the right people together to solve problems and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed.
• Promotes partner involvement through effectively communicating project status upward and to the Client.
• Applies lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.
• Communicates to all concerned parties project milestones, status updates, as well as any existing or potential customer escalation issues.
• Proactively follows escalation and change control processes.
• Owns all management reports on a given engagement.
• Promotes good working relationships across a project, cultivating the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders: its sponsors, those who will make use of the project's results, those who command the resources needed, and the project team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of project management experience preferably from a mortgage or financial services environment
• PMP certification strongly preferred, Six Sigma a plus.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk.
• Manage client expectations, anticipates operational and tactical risks and tracks them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues, remove barriers, resolve minor project issues and escalate to immediate manager where required.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, MS Project, VISIO, Adobe Acrobat Professional.
• Stays abreast of current industry trends and new technology through professional associations, trade journals, networking, and associated training and seminars.

Education:

• Bachelors/University degree, Masters degree preferred

Manager Strategic Transformation & Value Creation

Oficina de Modernizacin

Propsito del Rol

Buscamos un lder analtico y estratgico que impulse iniciativas de transformacin con impacto transversal en la organizacin, identificando oportunidades de creacin de valor, liderando anlisis complejos y movilizando a diferentes reas para convertir las recomendaciones en resultados tangibles.

Este rol tiene una alta exposicin con la Alta Direccin y requiere una combinacin excepcional de pensamiento estratgico, juicio de negocio, capacidad de influencia y ejecucin.

La persona ser responsable no solo de analizar informacin, sino de definir qu preguntas deben responderse, construir una perspectiva propia y liderar iniciativas que generen impacto material en la organizacin.

Responsabilidades Principales

Liderazgo de Iniciativas Estratgicas

• Liderar anlisis estratgicos y financieros relacionados con productividad, eficiencia y transformacin organizacional.
• Identificar oportunidades de creacin de valor y construir casos de negocio para sustentar decisiones.
• Definir lneas de anlisis, metodologas e hiptesis de trabajo.

Gestin de Stakeholders

• Interactuar con lderes de negocio, Finanzas, Recursos Humanos y reas corporativas.
• Facilitar la alineacin entre reas para asegurar la implementacin de iniciativas.
• Influir en la toma de decisiones a distintos niveles de la organizacin.

Creacin de Valor y Transformacin

• Disear y supervisar iniciativas de optimizacin de costos y productividad.
• Evaluar riesgos, dependencias y capacidades organizacionales necesarias para la ejecucin.
• Monitorear el cumplimiento de beneficios y objetivos comprometidos.

Comunicacin y Exposicin Ejecutiva

• Preparar materiales para Comits Ejecutivos, Direccin General y foros de decisin.
• Presentar recomendaciones complejas de forma clara, ejecutiva y persuasiva.
• Traducir anlisis cuantitativos en implicaciones estratgicas para el negocio.

Desarrollo del Equipo

• Coordinar y desarrollar analistas y consultores internos.
• Revisar y elevar la calidad de anlisis, modelos y materiales ejecutivos.
• Promover una cultura de pensamiento crtico, rigor analtico y orientacin a resultados.

Experiencia y Formacin

Experiencia

• 7 a 12 aos de experiencia en:
  • Consultora estratgica.
  • Corporate Strategy.
  • Transformation Office.
  • FP&A estratgico.
  • Corporate Finance.
  • M&A o Corporate Development.

Experiencia deseable en:

• Big 4 Strategy.
• Bain, BCG, McKinsey.
• Boutiques de consultora estratgica.
• Oficinas de transformacin o valor.

Formacin Acadmica

• Ingeniera Industrial.
• Actuara.
• Economa.
• Finanzas.
• Matemticas Aplicadas.
• MBA o posgrado relevante (deseable).

Competencias Clave

• Pensamiento estratgico.
• Juicio de negocio.
• Influencia y manejo de stakeholders.
• Liderazgo sin autoridad formal.
• Capacidad para navegar entornos ambiguos.
• Comunicacin ejecutiva.
• Mentalidad de dueo.
• Orientacin a impacto.

Conocimientos Tcnicos

• Modelado financiero avanzado.
• Anlisis de escenarios.
• Visualizacin de datos.
• Storytelling ejecutivo.
• PowerPoint y Excel avanzados.

Deseable:

• Power BI.
• SQL.
• Python.
• Herramientas de IA aplicadas al anlisis estratgico.

Lo que valoraremos

• Capacidad para formular hiptesis y definir agendas de anlisis.
• Habilidad para conectar datos con decisiones de negocio.
• Capacidad para convertir recomendaciones en resultados.
• Historial demostrable liderando iniciativas con impacto medible.

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Job Family Group:

Project and Program Management

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Job Family:

Project Management

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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