Program Manager – Facility / Technical Infrastructure Build-out

6 Month Contract Consulting Role

NYC Global Investment Bank

J Harlan Group is currently conducting a search for a Program Manager – Facility / Technical Infrastructure Buildout (6 Month Contract Consulting Role) at a prominent Global Investment Bank in NYC

if you're looking for challenging consulting work experience and the ability to work in a highly collaborative culture, we invite you to explore this opportunity.

The Program Manager will be responsible for the successful management and execution of a facility / technical infrastructure buildout and relocation project, managing cross-functional strategic programs that are of moderate to high risk and complexity. The Program manager working in both New York City and Philadelphia will provide oversight of multiple project / senior project managers assigned to the program and provide overall leadership to ensure that the program stays aligned and coherent in achieving its objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead teams of project management / technical – facilities management / construction professionals to effectively deliver on the expected program outcomes.
• Responsible for planning and strategizing across the projects in scope to ensure adequate resourcing, financial impacts, interdependencies, and roadmaps for strategy planning. Translate roadmaps into actionable interrelated plans.
• Lead collaborative partnerships and dialog across multiple business units and functions.
• Actively promote alignment and compliance with related programs and projects across the Enterprise.
• Demonstrate program management expertise and exercise influence in order to identify, evaluate, and recommend current/potential projects to ensure access to accurate information for consumption by clients, regulators, and other critical stakeholders.
• Develop the strategy for managing the timeline and budget consisting of multiple, concurrent projects with multiple deliverables and components across a multi-year period, in conjunction with the business sponsor and other stakeholders.
• Proactively work with the sponsor/s to identify, approve, and prioritize all projects and deliverables throughout the lifecycle of the program.
• Develop the program schedule consisting of the components, the order in which they must be executed, the amount of time required for each, and the major program level milestones

The ideal candidate would have a background:

• 5+ years of Program / Project Management / Change Manager experience within the facility / technical infrastructure buildout environment
• Experience managing multiple teams of project managers and large matrix teams across facility / technical infrastructure projects
• Strong consulting orientation and outstanding client relationship management skills
• Strong negotiation and influence skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience managing large investment budgets
• Ability to work well with people with varying technical, business and cultural backgrounds
• Comfortable working with executive management
• Experienced in managing people of varying management and skill levels
  

Required Education:

• Strong academic record and a BA/BS
• PMP certification is a plus
  

An individual who loves solving deep and complex technical and business problems and wants to have an outsized impact with the services/ products they deliver. An individual with a passion for program / project / change management in the financial services industry, high level of intellectual curiosity, a commitment to excellence and an unparalleled drive to deliver world-class services.

About the Client:

Our Client is the global investment management arm of a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services operating in more than 70 locations in more than 27 countries. They manage more than $263 billion across 24 independent global investment teams. Their global network of specialist asset management teams strive to deliver superior, sustainable risk-adjusted returns by employing their extensive experience, strong investment convictions, and commitment to in-depth research.

They offer securities investment management capabilities across a number of asset classes including fixed income, currencies, equities, infrastructure securities, hedge funds, and multi-asset allocation solutions. With their strong asset management expertise and strong investment convictions they are dedicated to providing their clients with investment excellence.

The firm’s employees maintain the highest professional and ethical standards. The firm has earned a reputation for honesty, fair dealing, and transparency in a competitive industry. They believe that these standards are the foundation for superior investment performance and are critical to delivering performance to clients

They seek candidates who are high-energy self-starters who want to join an investment management firm on the leading edge of the global markets. The management team needs individuals of the highest professional caliber who are leaders, problem solvers, analytic, detail-oriented, and entrepreneurial. Everyone at the firm works side-by-side with the firm’s senior management in a highly collaborative and charged environment.

Successful candidates are:

• Analytic and relentless in pursuit of the right answer
• Strong communicators who excel at rapid synthesis
• Able to demonstrate sound business judgment
• Able to digest complexity while maintaining an understanding of the “big picture” of business needs
• Team players who are energized by a collaborative enterprise