Director, Project Management

161 Bay Street (93021), Canada, Toronto,Toronto, Ontario,Director, Project Management
About Capital One Canada
For 30 years, we've been on a mission to change banking for good. We challenge the traditional bank stereotype, fostering a culture where innovation thrives and bold ideas are celebrated.
We're driven by what's possible, leveraging the power of data and technology to empower innovative solutions, inspire one another to dream boldly, and take transformative ownership of decisions and outcomes that directly impact millions of Canadians. Every challenge is an opportunity to lead from the front, working together toward a shared vision that extends far beyond banking.
We balance high-performance with investment in your long-term success, ensuring you have the support you need to do your best work. Here, you'll take full accountability for your path, upskilling through hands-on experience and mentorship, to turn your curiosity into a career built on your own terms.
Are you ready to redefine what's next?
About the Team:
Join Capital One in Canada as we build the products that enable our millions of international Card customers. This team will specifically be working on the development of customer management capabilities for international Card users, including transitioning from an account-centric to a customer-centric decision-making model.
About the Role:
The Legal Entity Lead, Canada is a critical position for Team Canada, accountable for creating and managing the framework for work done on behalf of Canada by the enterprise, ensuring strong governance, prudent financial management, and strong risk management. This role mandate includes the following:
Setting up and leading the infrastructure and resources needed to support expansion work in Canada
Leading the existing work and ensuring it fits within the principles and needs of the infrastructure as it evolves
Maintaining and improving the intake process to identify and manage Canada's response to new and evolving requests
Your Responsibilities:
The Legal Entity Lead, Canada drives work across Canada, informing and supporting the President, COS-C, CTO , as well as the Legal Entity directors and Canada's chief of staff.
Strategy

• Own the Canada Shared Services intake process, acting as a front door to new intent and facilitating the approval process through SLT
• Create structured systems to solve issues, remove roadblocks, drive accountability in Canada and the enterprise, and keep leadership updated
• Develop relationships with broad set of key leaders in Canada and the enterprise to balance the needs of Canada and the enterprise and ensure work is done in a well managed way

Routines

• Run the system associated with the legal entity in partnership with US and Canada partners (MBR, MFR, and so on).
• Set up and maintain new routines as needed
• Support key finance routines to ensure billback processes run smoothly
• Represent Canada in key enterprise routines related to International Country Risk, Project Atlas, and other enterprise-forums related to Canada work

Communications

• Function as the face of the ServiceCo team, providing updates as needed
• Create and curate executive-ready presentations and materials as needed

Project Management

• Demonstrates a proven track record of excellent program management, bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic matrix environment
• Driving all phases of project management to include feasibility, definition, planning, prioritization, implementation and close out of projects
• Effectively applying project management methodology and standards, and ensuring project documents are complete and up to date
• Displaying cross-functional teamwork, communication, negotiation and leading across all levels
• Partnering cross-functionally with key stakeholders to provide strategic and tactical thought partnership to effectively drive project delivery
• Working with cross functional teams and influencing others to work toward common goal, regardless of resource and time constraints
• Creating transparency and fostering relationships to adjacent teams

Basic Qualifications

• At least 7 years of Process, Project, or Program Management experience
• At least 5 years of experience supporting, partnering and interacting with internal or external business clients

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in Business Administration
• 10+ years of Process, Project, or Program Management experience with executive presence
• 7+ years of People Management experience
• 7+ years of strategy development
• 7+ years leading technology initiatives
• PMP, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

Working at Capital One
You'll be empowered to take end-to-end ownership of your work and your career, backed by a high-performance, hybrid culture and holistic suite of benefits designed to support your whole self.

• Take ownership of your own potential:
  Whether you're looking to upskill, pivot into new business areas, or master your craft, you'll have access to tools and mentorship to reach your potential and define your career trajectory.
• Find your rhythm
  : We believe trust fosters the flexibility and autonomy required to balance personal needs with a focus on high performance. We support a hybrid model - with 3 days in the office per week - that gives room for both collaboration and personal commitments.
• Benefits built for your life
  : We take a holistic approach to well-being, providing support for you and those who are most important to you. This includes: full coverage for spouses, domestic partners and dependents, a one-time Work From Home allowance to build your comfortable workspace, up to $3,000 in mental health coverage and up to $5,000 in annual tuition subsidies.

You'll find that Capital One is committed to helping you thrive and evolve every step of the way.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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