Sr. Director, Project & Program Management - Risk Management

Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, VirginiaSr. Director, Project & Program Management - Risk Management

Senior Directors in Risk Management have the ability to adjust their approach to meet unique needs across multiple stakeholder groups within a complex organization. Successful candidates will demonstrate a proven track record of program management, strategic planning, change and risk management; as well as change resiliency to maintain momentum in a dynamic, fast-paced and complex environment among competing priorities; in addition, strong relationship building and communication skills to engage and influence critical stakeholders. This role is ideal for someone with strong leadership skills, who is capable of driving transformational change and delivering game-changing value with a high level of exposure to executives across lines of business. Successful Senior Directors will create and implement innovative solutions to identify and mitigate potential risks to the company. With these skills, they serve as change agents to effectively challenge business leaders on our highest profile risk projects.

Responsibilities:

• Providing strategic program leadership and driving program alignment in a matrixed, highly complex regulated environment
• Spearheading large scale Risk Management Program Management/Governance
• Designing, developing, and managing risk management-focused project plans in a complex dynamic environment, revising needs to meet changing requirements
• Ensuring projects are being delivered on time and on budget within a challenging environment while simultaneously managing risk
• Designing and maintaining well-managed gap closure and validation where needed
• Monitoring, reporting and escalating status and risks
• Communicating program requirements across the organization, to both internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Partnering cross-functionally with project customers to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery
• Report out on program status, risks, issues and decisions to a wide variety of constituents across the company; flags critical risks and/or concerns to Risk Management and Business Leadership
• Leading critical assessments on risk categories to mitigate risk to the company
• Building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments
  
  

The ideal candidate will:

• Exhibit outstanding influencing skills to effectively drive projects and program efforts
• Demonstrate a proven track record of excellent project management in a highly regulated environment, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment
• Display a passion for coaching and developing others through their leadership style and presence, whether as direct reports, extended team members or third party resources
• Have excellent communication and partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels across the company, as well as external stakeholders and regulatory agencies, to manage, inform and influence outcomes
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 10 years of risk management experience
• At least 7 years of project or program management experience
• At least 7 years of experience supporting, partnering or interacting with internal business clients
• At least 5 years of people management experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree or MBA
• 10 years of project or program management experience
• 10 years of people management experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification
• 5 years of project management experience leading cross functional programs in risk
• Experience working in the financial services industry
  
  

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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