Manager, Project Management - Network Innovation Engagement Manager

Manager, Project Management - Network Innovation Engagement Manager

Capital One, a Fortune 500 company and one of the nation's top 10 banks, offers a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. Our goal is to create one of the nation's great banks, and we have the necessary ingredients: a strong balance sheet, resilient businesses, a massive customer franchise, strong analytical capabilities, and great people.

We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, guided by our shared values, come together to make Capital One a great company - and a great place to work.

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 / MBA degree

* 8+ years of Project Management experience

* 3+ years of People Management experience

* PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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