Project Manager - AVP
Business Overview:
Change & Solutions works closely with BNPP’s executive management and senior leadership to design and implement high-level, and strategically important projects for the Bank in Brazil. The team delivers value across the bank’s platforms through an integrated approach with deep international interconnectivity across departments, and a strong focus on servicing internal clients.
Change & Solutions delivers change-the-bank initiatives including strategic planning, business development, operational excellence, resilience, and remediation. These initiatives cover the full change management value chain from strategy to implementation.
As a member in the Change & Solutions team, you will have significant autonomy and be expected to play an instrumental role in the design and execution of the Bank’s transformation and regulatory strategy.
Candidate Success Factors:
Candidates will be measured on the following four performance drivers which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the platform:
- Results and Impact
- Able to influence peers and team.
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
- Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
- Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
- Leadership and Collaboration
- Creates trust with colleagues.
- Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
- Is comfortable to lead teams / programs through uncertainty.
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus
- Builds relationships with stakeholders across various domains and seniority levels.
- Demonstrates outstanding listening skills / ability to understand different perspectives to inform problem solving.
- Builds own convictions; can influence senior managers and guide them through the resolution of complex challenges.
- Compliance Culture and Conduct
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.
Responsibilities:
Project management and thought leadership:
- Leads transformation projects (Target operating model, value chain proposition, automation), including overall project plan, timeframe, stakeholder relationships, and quality of deliverables.
- Pro-actively identifies risks / anticipate roadblocks and apply problem solving structures on initiatives and drives resolution.
- Manage day-to-day stakeholder relationships and deliverables.
- Stimulate creative problem solving for clients and project teams.
- When needed, prepares, and leads workshops with senior stakeholders to build consensus / resolve issues.
- When needed, directly contributes to the preparation of projects’ deliverables.
- Maintain familiarity with financial services industry trends (regulatory, innovation, etc) via desk research, ongoing training, etc.
Client leadership
- Develop advisory relationships with Executive management and their management teams across BNPP.
- Work with C&S and COO senior leads to scope, staff, and deliver projects in alignment with emerging client needs.
- Effectively influence key stakeholder client involvement and decision making on projects.
- Lead and manage presentations for executive management.
Team leadership
- When needed, supervises C&S team members, acts as a coach to support their personal development and career aspirations.
- Foster connectivity between change-oriented teams across the firm and provide visibility to executive management.
- Maintain strong personal mentorship and guidance relationships with senior and junior teams
Position Requirements:
- Relevant experience in the Banking / Financial Services Industry
- Excellent project management skills (including ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadline and work collaboratively within a team), project management methods (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid and Lean) and tools (VSM, Value Chain Analysis, Swin Lane Diagram, etc.)
- Excellent communication across verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
- Fluency in English and Portuguese.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Why join BNP Paribas?
BNP Paribas is an international bank with leading positions in the European market. It is present in more than 60 countries and employs more than 190,000 people. The Group occupies key positions in its three main areas of operation: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking and financial services network is part of Retail Banking & Services), as well as Corporate & Institutional Banking, which offers services to corporate and institutional clients.
Our presence in Brazil
BNP Paribas has been officially operating in Brazil since 1996. Since 2010, when the Securities Services area began operating, the Brazilian unit has the largest number of business lines in Latin America, making it one of the Group's largest operations in emerging markets. Today, in Brazil, the Group is present with the areas of Corporate and Institutional Banking, Asset Management, Insurance (Cardif) and Fleet Management (Arval).
Currently, the BNP Paribas Group has around 1400 employees in the country. In Brazil, it is among the largest international investment banks in total assets (R$ 112.5 billion, Jun/23, Prudential Conglomerate, Central Bank), offering a diversity of products and multiple solutions to its clients.
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally
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