Program Manager, Wealth Management

About Northern Trust As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions. Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide. With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Summary:  Responsible for managing large scale, enterprise-wide Programs with multiple projects and work streams. Programs involve delivery of critical strategic business capabilities or regulatory changes that impact multiple business units or disciplines. The Project Management function manages a BU project or program to successful outcome. This role is responsible for aligning resources, overseeing the budget, creating project plans and tracking key milestones/risks/dependencies. This is the key coordinator to ensure Implementation of critical business capabilities or regulatory change.   Major Duties: Focus of role is on execution of a program initiated to deliver a change in the strategic direction of business function activities; expansion of critical business capabilities or implementation of cross business unit regulatory change. Manages implementation of complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues Ability to lead a variety of projects providing solid leadership, planning, execution, governance and direction Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with all necessary parts of the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs with a focus on flawless project execution Facilitation of cross discipline (business unit) coordination for decision making regarding scope; prioritization and issue resolution Manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously Oversee development of business cases and project documentation, escalating items for attention proactively Demonstrate excellent communication skills through coordination and execution across initiatives potentially impacting all facets of the business (i.e., front-office, middle-office, operations, IT, Risk, Legal, Compliance, etc.); Communication of program objectives; risks; issues and overall status to multiple levels of the organization. Display strong attention to detail while managing across programs through preparation for key meetings. Demonstrate understanding of budgetary and resource impact to projects and active management/issue resolution in both Display an appropriate sense of urgency and understanding of inherent project risk Proactively identify potential strategic or execution risks / issues and track them to closure Ability to partner with key stakeholders to define key success metrics and measure progress against such metrics   Necessary Knowledge / Skills: Excellent analytical, consultative, communication (oral and written) and judgement skills Ability to excel in ambiguity Ability to see the big picture and drill down into details, where needed Brings order to the work Highly flexible and adaptable to change Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects in concurrent manner Motivated and self-driven individual with strong time management skills Operates independently, but executes projects in partnership with key stakeholders Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Program’s goals, structure, budget and resource need People Management skills to assess and develop the skills of staff. Team-work skills to drive execution