Senior Bilingual (Spanish/English) Program Manager to lead a data remediation project with one of our major banking banking clients- 35140

Senior Bilingual (Spanish/English) Program Manager to lead a data remediation project with one of our major banking banking clients- 35140

Location Address: Hybrid - Scarborough - 2 days/week (days set up by project team, currently not specified)

Contract Duration: Approx. 9 months (Possibility of extension)

Schedule Hours: 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: Project Delivery & Support is a centralized project management office that supports various technology teams across the bank, oversees the delivery of large-scale IT projects for a variety of teams. Responsible for ensuring the projects have the proper team to complete effectively.
• Project/Program: International Wealth Management Program that requires an experienced Project Manager fluent in Spanish (oral and written) with data remediation and data migration experience, preferably someone who has worked with local clients in Mexico or Chile.

Typical Day in Role:

• Manage and ensure the successful delivery of complex projects/programs involving multiple teams from different groups across the bank, as well as external vendors when required
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills to develop and maintain high functioning project teams
• Influences business project decisions with direct impact on financials or operating results
• Ability to independently run executive Steerco meetings with Group Heads, EVPs, and SVPs
• Takes a strategic focus aligned to business priorities
• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge Recommends technical strategy within a technical domain, may investigate and evaluate new technologies
• Impacts the technical direction and resource allocation for products, services or platforms supported
• Leads the solution of risks and issues that have a broad impact on the project team - accountability typically spans across multiple products, a line of businesses or with significant enterprise system impact
• Defines and maintains the roadmap and project budget

Must Have Skills:

• Bilingual in English/Spanish
• 10+ years of project management experience in large corporations, with at least 5 of those in program management
• 5+ years experience in Wealth Management
• 10+ years’ experience leading and presenting at Executive leadership steering committee meetings (SVP, EVP+ audience) - must have
• 5+ years’ experience working with multiple countries, technical teams and vendors (ex. Mexico, Chile and/or Peru)
• 10+ years managing large-scale global enterprise-wide application deployments
• Experience with Data Remediation and/or Data Migration

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Financial institution experience
• Previous experience managing projects using Agile project methodologies

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required (Technical fields preferred, although experience is more important)
• PMP required but experience valued over education

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Executive presence is required and crucial to success in this role; as well as experience in Data Remediation and or Data Migration. As well Spanish speakers would be prioritized.

Candidate Review & Selection

• MS Teams Video Interview
• 1st - HM screen interview - 20 minutes
• 2nd panel technical interview - with project sponsor and portfolio directors - 30-45 minutes
• Potential 3rd with executives - 30 minutes

Hiring Manager’s availability to interview: back Jan 2nd and hoping to have HM screen interviews on Jan 3rd 9:30am-12:00pm