Director, Business Programs

The Director, Business Programs will provide program management to ensure that the work effort achieves the outcomes specified in the business strategy. This involves setting and reviewing objectives, negotiating changes in plans, identifying key dependencies, and managing key deliverables within specified timeframes. Accountable to executive sponsors for schedule, budget, and quality of all program elements and for the program execution delivery. Builds and sustains key relationships with stakeholders to ensure that outcomes and goals are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• GCO Programs include PMO team management and project oversight, ORM Risk Office management, Innovation Program management, and other GCO-wide initiatives.
• Manages program execution delivery to meet quality, schedule, milestone, and budget commitments. Manages program expectations, scope, risk and changes. Develops and maintains a work plan at the required level of detail which indicates the key dependencies, resources, the timeframe for completion of the project and the key deliverables. Provides issue identification and makes recommendations to ensure resolution.
• Ensures effective program implementation and is accountable for sustaining the assigned programs. This includes ensuring that appropriate resources are identified and secured for both the implementation and ongoing maintenance of the program. Accountable for the continual tracking and analysis of program performance against the plan to ensure program success.
• Leads high-level sessions for program plan and schedule development. Reviews / approves project plans for conformance to program strategy and program plan and schedule. Ensures the goals, metrics and objectives of the program are understood and agreed upon with the program sponsorship. Works across various teams to coordinate and integrate plans to ensure effective program execution.
• Acts as the communications conduit to executive sponsors and program steering committee and conducts periodic briefings / status updates. Escalates decisions to executive sponsors as necessary. Builds and sustains key relationships with stakeholders to ensure that outcomes and goals are achieved. Prepares executive level presentations, communications, talking points and speeches for the direct leader.
• Provides effective people leadership through effective coaching, feedback and sound performance management practices. Acts as champion for the team and intervenes on matters that create roadblocks to individual or organizational success. Sets department initiatives and aligns and sets individual performance goals.
• Partners with HR to design organization and business specific people strategies, including leader / employee recognition and representation in Chairman's awards.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

About Our Company

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We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of 2022. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries, advise and manage assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Full-Time / Part-Time : Full time

Exempt / Non-Exempt : Exempt

Job Family Group : Business Support & Operations

Line of Business : GCO General Counsel's Organization

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