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As a Project Manager within the Change Strategy team, you will play a pivotal role in driving the successful execution of projects and initiatives across various business units. Leveraging your broad knowledge of project management principles and practices, you will transform strategic plans into actionable programs, ensuring alignment with business strategy and vision. Your role will involve analyzing and interpreting data to inform decision-making, managing dependencies, and mitigating risks. You will also be responsible for fostering cross-functional collaboration, building diverse teams, and effectively delegating tasks to ensure efficient project delivery. Your ability to think strategically, coupled with your developing digital proficiency and customer service skills, will be key in delivering results that have a meaningful impact on our department and stakeholders.
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Job responsibilities
- Support the transformation of strategic plans into actionable programs, ensuring alignment with business strategy and vision
- Analyze and interpret data to inform decision-making, contributing to the successful execution of projects and initiatives
- Foster cross-functional collaboration, coordinating efforts with individuals from different departments to achieve common project goals
- Assist in building diverse project teams, leveraging your developing team building and delegation skills to ensure efficient project delivery
- Contribute to risk mitigation efforts, identifying potential issues and proposing solutions to ensure project success
- Create outstanding visual and verbal stories to help articulate this journey at all levels of the organization, including securing approval from senior leaders and communicating new processes to operations teams
- Manage your own book of work and ensure you meet project deadlines
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proven skills in managing or leading projects or initiatives from idea to execution
- Demonstrated ability to transform strategic plans into programs and projects, including initiating, planning, executing, and monitoring
- Proven experience in data analytics, with the ability to develop and interpret models to offer continuous insight
- Proficiency in using software applications, digital platforms, and other technological tools to solve problems and improve processes.
- Experience in fostering cross-functional collaboration and building diverse teams with varied experiences, skills, and backgrounds.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to succinctly communicate complex issues to audiences at all levels
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Experience with our Intelligent Automation toolkit: Alteryx, Tableau, Xceptor, UiPath
- Capability of presenting to an ED level audience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Integrate artificial intelligence solutions to enhance project outcomes and drive data-driven decision-making
- Implement automation to streamline project workflows and increase operational efficiency
- Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging creative problem-solving and the adoption of new technologies
- Experience of working in a project management team
- A strong knowledge of Fund Accounting
- A track record of delivering projects making use of Alteryx and Tableau or similar citizen developer tools
ABOUT US
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
ABOUT THE TEAM
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.