LEAD STRATEGY CONSULTANT - Product Owner

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

This role drives the delivery of large scale, enterprise-wide initiatives and provides active direction to achieve organizational strategy through a variety of means including, but not limited to advising on strategic opportunities and alignment, strategic planning, and driving cross-functional execution. This leader will work with workstream and initiative leaders across the organization to ensure plans, product designs, and product roadmaps are well thought out and deliver an outstanding set of results and experiences for our clients, partners, colleagues. On an on-going basis, this leader may also be called upon to identify, diagnose and assess areas across the organization where there is a specific need to define or align strategy, address blockers (process, planning, structure, etc.), and capture unique opportunities.

What you will do

• Leads large scale, enterprise-wide initiatives throughout the product lifecycle, from initiation through prioritization, design, and delivery.
• Overarchingly support executive leadership and key leaders to ensure strategic alignment and movement with speed on prioritized areas of focus.
• Lead cross-functional teams to address strategic questions, diagnose issues, develop plans, ultimately enabling initiatives to fully align to corporate strategy and direction, and more aggressively execute to realize success and expected business outcomes.
• Drive, direct, monitor and contribute to critical strategic initiatives—enterprise onboarding, servicing through Salesforce, data governance, progressive core modernization, controls and compliance process transformation, among others.
• Lead cross functional teams in managing and resolving key initiatives or projects that are critical to strategy success, including addressing risk, regulatory requirements, and blockers to strategy attainment.
• Influence key stakeholders and act as a strategic advisor on key areas of focus to enable CNB’s strategy.
• Balance and influence multiple competing priorities and teams by providing oversight and guidance to actions of high importance; and creating and maintaining cross-organizational relationships to enable success.
• Influence, implement, and promote the adoption of the data governance operating model and related requirements in alignment with CNB’s overall data strategy.
• All City National products, financial solutions and services are to be provided ethically and with integrity in a manner that is consistent with the client-first culture and values embodied in City National’s PRIDE statement.

Must-Have*

• Minimum 8 years of experience managing complex, large scale projects involving cross functional disciplines and/or geographical regions.
• Minimum 8 years of experience contributing to product strategy, roadmap development and delivery, and practicing disciplines such as quality management, financial management and organization change management.

Skills and Knowledge

• Track record of delivering functional expertise on transformations at an Enterprise level.
• High-value personal qualities - critical thinking and problem solving skills, ability to influence, work in teams, resourceful, responsible, tenacious, independent, self-confident, high-energy, etc.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements, risk management, and compliance principles.
• Ability to develop short and long-term plans for all relevant levels of the enterprise/organization
• Must be a critical and strategic thinker with seasoned problem-solving, analytical and decision-making skills.
• Experience in Agile delivery, Lean, six-sigma, or other continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong project management skills required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Excellent organization and analytical skills with emphasis on planning and operations.

Compensation

Starting base salary: $111,408 - $189,738 per year. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This job is eligible for bonus and/or commissions.

*To be considered for this position you must meet at least these basic qualifications
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Benefits and Perks

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INCLUSION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENTCity National Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.'

ABOUT CITY NATIONAL

We start with a basic premise: Business is personal. Since day one we've always gone further than the competition to help our clients, colleagues and community flourish. City National Bank was founded in 1954 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and that legacy of integrity, community and unparalleled client relationships continues to drive phenomenal growth today. City National is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies.