Manager, Project Management - Network Innovation Engagement Manager
As a Manager Project Manager at Capital One, you will drive strategy and execute on high priority projects for the company. You will work with smart and passionate people to deliver results that have a direct impact on the company’s bottom line. You will take on important and exciting responsibility from day one, working with key stakeholders across the company. You will be challenged to excel and lead alongside the brightest talent in the industry and be rewarded for your achievements.
About the role:
The Network Innovation Team is seeking an Innovation Engagement Manager to uncover problems and opportunities worthy of exploration, evaluate potential implications, develop hypothesis, structure experiments to validate/invalidate hypothesis, execute the full innovation process, and support stakeholders as they ingest the insights and learnings from generated evidence.
The successful candidate is responsible for innovation engagements from inception to execution to implementation. They manage ALL aspects of the engagement over its entire life including: the initiation, design and development of plan, identification and management of stakeholders, execution, controls, implementation, and communications. The Engagement Manager assembles and leads the engagement team – usually consisting of internal and external parties – to ensure engagements are completed on time, within budgets, and produce the learnings required to evaluate the engagement hypothesis. This role also actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within day-to-day management.
General Responsibilities:
- Leading moderate to large complex projects and programs by providing strategic direction to projects, peers, and direct reports.
- Designing, developing, and managing project plans in a complex dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing requirements
- Ensuring projects are being documented appropriately to mitigate risk and to be delivered on time.
- Leveraging problem solving and influencing skills to ensure project plans deliver on intent
- Partnering cross-functionally with project customers to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery
- Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments
- Exhibit outstanding influencing skills to effectively drive project / program efforts
- Demonstrate a proven track record of excellent project management, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment.
- Display a passion for coaching and developing a team of associates through their leadership style
- Have excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the company to manage, inform and influence outcomes
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or Military experience
- At least 7 Years of Project Management experience
- At least 1 Year of People Management experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters of Business Administration
- 8+ years of Project Management experience
- 3+ years of People Management experience
- 2+ years of experience in the payments or Financial Services industry
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
Chicago, IL: $138,100 - $157,700 for Manager, Project Management
Riverwoods, IL: $138,100 - $157,700 for Manager, Project Management
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
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