Strategic Initiatives Manager

About This Role

Lead high-visibility strategic initiatives, focusing on increasing productivity, reducing costs, and ensuring timely project completion for U.S. Bank's Digital Operations. This role oversees a team of direct reports, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with direct reports to U.S. Bank’s Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer on confidential and high-visibility initiatives
• Properly sequence projects to increase productivity, reduce cost, and ensure timely completion
• Oversee a team of seven direct reports, fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment
• Lead with heightened emotional intelligence and demonstrate strong advocacy for technology-enabled efficiency
• Champion automation and AI to help shape and execute the future-state operating model
• Design, develop, and implement solutions to optimize processes, including mapping and designing workflows
• Interface with internal and external contributors to prioritize resources and ensure successful integration
• Mitigate operational conditions that have cost, risk, or customer impact

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant work experience
• 3+ years of management experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop teams
• Maturity and organizational discipline
• Elevated ability to foster psychological safety and employ a high level of emotional intelligence
• Well-developed leadership abilities and strategic management skills
• Strong coaching capabilities and a collaborative leadership approach
• Meaningful exposure to and understanding of AI and Automation
• Passion for operational transformation, including automation and AI-enabled efficiencies
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Considerable tact, diplomacy, and people skills
• Well-developed analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage sensitive, confidential, and high-visibility projects
• Comfort with quarterly to monthly travel as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree, or relevant work experience
• 10 or more years of relevant work experience and 3 or more years of management experience

Nice to Have

• Banking experience
• Thorough knowledge of the current business or regulatory environment, with the ability to anticipate changes

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits