Business Program Manager - Ameriprise Advisor Group Novice

Position: Business Program Manager - Ameriprise Advisor Group Novice Recruitment
About Our Company

We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and River Source Insurance and Annuities.

Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Job Description

Provides operational support and analysis to ongoing medium-sized business programs designed to drive results specified in the business strategy. This includes supporting product owners and business analysts in the development, monitoring, and execution of various product strategy and roadmap initiatives, ranging from tool enhancements to medium scale cross functional projects. Act as internal consultants to various parts of the organization, including product owners, business stakeholders, technology, vendors, and more.

This involves building and sustaining relationships with internal business partners to effectively administer the program, resolve issues, track deliverables, measure outcomes, document and communicate program status, and support ongoing program development. Accountable for implementing and sustaining programs as appropriate. Manages internal project management tool, and enhancements and issues. Identifies process efficiencies within and across teams and may assist in documentation and training.

Assists with competitive analysis and insights gathering to stay apprised of trends and emerging capabilities, technology, etc.

Key Responsibilities

* Manage AAG Novice Recruitment program execution design delivery to meet quality, schedule, milestone, and budget commitments. Manage program expectations, scope, risk, and changes. Develops and maintains a work plan at the required level of detail which indicates the key dependencies, resources, the timeframe for completion of the program and the key deliverables.

* Ensure effective program implementation and is accountable for sustaining the assigned programs as needed. Accountable for continual tracking and analysis of program performance against the program plan to ensure program success. Assists leader with competitive analysis and insights gathering to stay apprised of trends and emerging capabilities, technology, etc. Assists in creation of decks and presentations of findings.

* Lead high-level sessions for program plan and schedule development. Ensure the goals, metrics and objectives of the program are understood and agreed upon with the program sponsorship. Work across various teams to coordinate and integrate plans to ensure effective program execution. Assess business needs and propose enhancements to appropriate senior leaders to gain support. Creates close working relationships with teams and their processes to help identify process efficiencies within and across teams.

Assist in documentation and training of new tools and processes. Manages internal project management tool, and enhancements and issues. Creates project management tool enhancement roadmap and creates requirements to share with developers.

* May provide people leadership to the team through effective coaching, feedback, and sound performance management practices. Act as champion for the team and intervene on matters that create roadblocks to individual or organizational success.

* Conduct periodic briefings/status updating executive sponsors and program steering committee. Escalate concerns to executive sponsors as necessary

Required Qualifications

* Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

* 5 to 7 years relevant experience required

* Demonstrated capability in standard office and project management applications - Microsoft Office

* Demonstrated experience in leading small- to medium-scale projects to successful completion and implementation; demonstrates innovative.

Preferred Qualifications

* FINRA Registrations: SIE, Series 7 and Series 66

In-Office Collaboration

We are a client-centric, relationship-based business. Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results. By fostering a culture of face-to-face collaboration, idea sharing, productivity and personal connection, we deliver for our stakeholders - clients, advisors, employees and shareholders. Our employees work in the office at least four (4) days per week, with flexibility to work from home one (1) day per week.

Some roles may require additional in-office time or different in-office expectations, and specific requirements will be discussed during the hiring process.

Visa Sponsorship

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