Ameriprise Financial has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Program Manager to join our team! This newly created role will work with top financial advisors seeking financing to grow their businesses through practice acquisitions and to plan for succession. The individual in this role will contribute to the overall success of our Advisor Lending business by providing financial and operational support and leadership; responsibilities include program execution and ongoing program development involving financial analysis, relationship building across the organization, issue resolution, report development, identification and mitigation of risks and process refinement.
Responsibilities
- Manage program execution delivery to meet quality, schedule and milestone commitments. Manage program expectations, scope, risk and changes ensuring deliverables are met in an accurate and timely fashion.
- Lead and support business results and relationships by developing and communicating in depth, complex analysis used to determine future implications of potential business decisions.
- Perform end-to-end business case analysis looking at quantitative and qualitative aspects of a decision. Provide preliminary recommendation based on these analyses.
- Accountable for continual tracking and analysis of program performance through report development. This includes development of new reporting and analysis, used to proactively identify issues that are worthy of further root cause analysis. Partner with team and leadership to deal with them. Review results with VP level business partners to collaboratively resolve critical issues.
- Partner across organizations to ensure dependent processes are performing effectively and issues addressed proactively. Provide direct leadership to a program manager including coaching, development and sharing of expertise to drive team results.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 7-10 years of experience
- Possess skills to write to different audiences (including corporate and field) in a way that clearly ties initiatives to how those employees conduct business, resulting in effective and lasting uptake
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including networking, conflict resolution, negotiating, and influencing.
- Proven ability to lead, build, influence and maintain strong relationships with key business partners to drive initiatives.
- Demonstrated project management skills with results.
- Ability to assimilate information and connect the dots on varying firm-wide initiatives that affect teaming.
- Strong Microsoft Office knowledge.
- Ability to work independently with high initiative and comfortable working in a team environment.
- Ability and desire to learn new skills and shift priorities/responsibilities to meet the needs of the business.
About Our Company
At Ameriprise Financial, we're not just in the business of helping clients with their financial goals - we also help our advisors and employees reach their true potential by embracing an inclusive and collaborative culture. We celebrate the unique qualities and reward the contributions of our talented, passionate employees. If you're motivated and want to work for a strong, ethical company that cares about you and your community, take the next step with Ameriprise Financial.
Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law. |
