About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.  

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Job Title: Program Manager - Wealth Management

Job Profile Summary:

Responsible for managing large scale, enterprise-wide Programs with multiple projects and work streams. Programs involve delivery of critical strategic business capabilities or regulatory changes that impact multiple business units or disciplines. The Project Management function manages a BU project or program to successful outcome. This role is responsible for aligning resources, overseeing the budget, creating project plans and tracking key milestones/risks/dependencies. This is the key coordinator to ensure Implementation of critical business capabilities or regulatory change.

Major Duties:

Focus of role is on execution of a program initiated to deliver a change in the strategic direction of business function activities; expansion of critical business capabilities or implementation of cross business unit regulatory change.

Manages implementation of complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues

Ability to lead a variety of projects providing solid leadership, planning, execution, governance and direction

Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with all necessary parts of the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity

Strategic in developing, implementing and administering programs with a focus on flawless project execution

Facilitation of cross discipline (business unit) coordination for decision making regarding scope; prioritization and issue resolution

Manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously

Oversee development of business cases and project documentation, escalating items for attention proactively

Demonstrate excellent communication skills through coordination and execution across initiatives potentially impacting all facets of the business (i.e., front-office, middle-office, operations, IT, Risk, Legal, Compliance, etc.); Communication of program objectives; risks; issues and overall status to multiple levels of the organization.

Display strong attention to detail while managing across programs through preparation for key meetings.

Demonstrate understanding of budgetary and resource impact to projects and active management/issue resolution in both

Display an appropriate sense of urgency and understanding of inherent project risk

Proactively identify potential strategic or execution risks / issues and track them to closure

Ability to partner with key stakeholders to define key success metrics and measure progress against such metrics

Knowledge / Skills:

Excellent analytical, consultative, communication (oral and written) and judgement skills

Ability to excel in ambiguity

Ability to see the big picture and drill down into details, where needed

Brings order to the work

Highly flexible and adaptable to change

Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects in concurrent manner

Motivated and self-driven individual with strong time management skills

Operates independently, but executes projects in partnership with key stakeholders

Leadership and organizational skills are required to determine the Program’s goals, structure, budget and resource need

People Management skills to assess and develop the skills of staff.

Team-work skills to drive execution without direct reporting line responsibilities

Proficient with Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio)

Experience Required:

Seasoned expert with program/project management expertise that has been developed over 12+ years of experience.

A college or university degree is preferred

Related industry knowledge is preferred

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us: 

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater 

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com.

 
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.