at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Job Title: Program Manager - Global Family Office (GFO)
Job Description 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:
1. 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.
2. Manages implementation of complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues
3. Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business and technology to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity
4. Communication of program objectives; risks; issues and overall status to multiple levels of the organization.
5. Facilitation of cross discipline (business unit) coordination for decision making regarding scope; prioritization and issue resolution.
Knowledge:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are required
- In-depth Functional; Technical and/or Industry Knowledge
- Highly flexible and adaptable to change
- 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 without direct reporting line responsibilities
Experience:
- Seasoned expert with program/project management expertise that has been developed over 10+ years of experience.
- Technical and/or business knowledge developed through previous industry experience.
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
