Manager, Project Management - Network Innovation Engagement Manager

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.

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.
• 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.

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.