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Senior Manager, Enterprise Change and Program Management Office (ECPMO) Program Management

The Sr. Manager, Enterprise Change and Program Management Office (ECPMO) Program Management is responsible for strategy, planning, and overseeing the successful delivery of the program's scope and objectives. They lead the planning and delivery strategy of multiple change initiatives for the bank's most complex horizontal efforts.

This role provides expert program delivery leadership and strategic guidance to senior executive leadership, delivery teams, business partners, and stakeholders to ensure enterprise change management processes are followed and program objectives are met.

The Enterprise Change and Project Management Office (ECPMO) is a centralized function that drives strategic alignment, governance, and delivery excellence across enterprise-wide initiatives, enabling effective change management, project execution, and business value realization.

• Provide leadership and oversight to highly complex, sizable enterprise programs.
• De-risk program delivery and ensure success of multiple change initiatives.
• Oversee delivery dependencies through leadership and cross-functional coordination.
• Develop enterprise program roadmaps, OKRs, and align change initiatives to meet objectives.
• Coordinate interdependencies for cross-functional alignment.
• Maintain artifacts like business cases, roadmaps, workforce planning, and timelines.
• Establish program charters, committees, and communication plans.
• Lead program tollgate approvals and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor program health, identify impediments and risks.
• Facilitate governance forums and serve as SME.
• Ensure communication and alignment with change delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Manage vendor relationships and accountability.

• Create workforce planning and delivery strategy artifacts.
• Develop business cases for staffing needs.

• Ensure governance compliance.
• Anticipate risks and develop contingency strategies.
• Track and report on risks and issues.

• Manage program financials and develop business cases.
• Partner with finance for financial planning and reporting.

• Mentor and guide teams and stakeholders.
• Promote accountability and transparency.
• Foster a positive team environment.
• Improve program management processes and tools.
• Resolve disputes and arbitrate debates.
• Develop team members and assign workload appropriately.
• Handle personnel processes including hiring, performance, and retention.

• Provide expert leadership and oversight to highly complex, and sizable enterprise programs.
• Accountable for de-risking the delivery and ultimate success of programs consisting of multiple change initiatives across the bank.
• Oversight of all delivery dependencies required to meet program objectives through a combination of direct leadership and cross-functional coordination.
• Responsible for developing enterprise program roadmaps, OKR's and alignment of in-scope change initiatives and change events to deliver on program objectives.
• Coordinate interdependencies for cross-functional alignment ensuring effective scope and sequencing of related change initiatives and change events.
• Develop, maintain, and revise artifacts for assigned programs including business cases, roadmaps, workforce planning, delivery strategy, timelines, and funding.
• Establish, implement, and maintain program charter, committee and all required program communications.
• Lead all program tollgate approvals to ensure proper stakeholder engagement in alignment with enterprise change management processes.
• Responsible for overall program health, identifying and solutioning impediments and program risks.
• Schedule and facilitate program governance forums.
• Serve as program subject matter expert in enterprise settings and forums.
• Responsible for communication and alignment between the program and change delivery teams supporting in-scope change initiatives and change events.
• Partner with change delivery teams, business partners and key stakeholders on escalation resolution.
• Manage direct vendor dependencies including relationships and hold vendor accountable to cost/schedule/quality deliverables.

• Create and maintain program level workforce planning and delivery strategy artifacts to support program roadmap and delivery schedule.
• Develop business cases for staff augmentation as needed to deliver on program objectives.

• Ensure adherence to all applicable governance committees, policies, and procedures.
• Collaborate with business partners and key stakeholders to anticipate program risks and develop contingency and continuity strategies to ensure successful delivery of program objectives.
• Proactively seek, identify, mitigate and manage program risks including detailed tracking and progress reporting / communications.

• Establish business cases and manage program level financials aggregating insights from cross-functional change initiative and change event dependencies of the program.
• Partner with finance, procurement, business partners and key stakeholders to optimize the financial landscape of the program.
• Employ expert financial acumen with proper financial forecasting and create financial reports for executive leadership communication.
• Review and approve the program budget updates and impact to program plan.

• Provide mentoring and guidance to other business partners, key stakeholders, program managers, project managers and delivery teams.
• Create an environment of accountability, transparency, and outcome-based delivery.
• Foster a positive team environment with directs and cross-functional partners and provide direction in ambiguous situations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on the continuous improvement of enterprise program management processes procedures and tooling.
• Constructively arbitrate debate and resolve disputes within the program.
• Mentor project delivery teams and serve as a role model for individual development.
• Identify areas of development in delivery teams and communicate performance improvements to management and coach towards improvement.
• Assign workload reflecting the team members skill set and experience with an eye toward cross training, development, and timely and quality task completion.
• Manage personnel processes for employees, including selection, training, performance management, compensation, disciplinary actions, talent management, development, and retention.

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Business, Technology, or other relevant degrees OR High School/GED with 8 years progressive relevant experience
• 8 years of experience working in a team setting to deliver projects
• 8 years of Project Management experience including managing highly complex projects/programs
• 6 years of Vendor management / negotiation experience
• 6 years of experience with project management and resource planning tools building and executing actionable plans
• 5 years of experience effectively executing concurrent projects of varying size, cost, technologies, complexity, and risk 2 years of experience working in an agile delivery model

• Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) preferred

About Comerica
We know our employees are critical to our overall success and we are dedicated to investing in their future. One of the ways we do this is to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to recognize and reward individual performance, as well support health, well-being, development and security for our colleagues and their family. Total Rewards consists of cash compensation, development and flexible benefit programs designed to meet individual needs today and in the future. Your salary will be commensurate with your work experience and our programs are reviewed regularly to ensure each remain competitive. We are proud to offer benefits such as health and welfare programs, strong retirement benefits, and generous paid time off programs. You and your eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children, can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) and pension, income protection benefits such as life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental health programs to offset unexpected health care expenses. We also have a variety of time off programs for things like vacation, sick time, disability, and parental leave. Eligibility for some programs varies based on employment status and tenure.

Upon offer, Comerica conducts a comprehensive background and fingerprint check. Your fingerprints will be used to check the criminal history records of the FBI and may be subscribed in the FBI's Record of Arrest and Prosecution Background ("RAP Back") service, which provides ongoing notification to the Company of any updates to your criminal history.

NMLS certification requirement: where applicable, a favorable background check screening, credit check, fingerprint check, and NMLS certification is required in accordance with the SAFE Act.

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned into three major business segments; the Commercial Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica's colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.

Comerica is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - disability/veteran.

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