City National Bank · 2 days ago
Strategic Change Manager
California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$123K/yr - $209K/yr
10+ years expCity National Bank is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada that focuses on helping clients, colleagues, and communities flourish. They are seeking a Strategic Change Manager to support the execution of the bank's strategic priorities through enterprise change enablement and adoption methodologies. The role involves leading a portfolio of strategic priority programs, collaborating with various stakeholders, and ensuring effective implementation of change initiatives.
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Responsibilities
Strategic Change Enablement & Adoption Delivery for City National Bank
Acts as change enabler and drives a portfolio of enterprise change initiatives across the bank identified as strategic priorities and provide guidance and support to related project teams
Partners with Change Owners and project teams across the enterprise to drive and support implementation and adoption of our most important strategic priorities and key initiatives, as well as deliver an organizational culture of service excellence, efficiency, effort, collaboration, and enterprise
Partners with leaders to enable the human side of transformation, ensuring people adopt the changes needed to promote the long-term success of our business
Collaborates with Change Owners, stakeholders, and partners to understand business strategy around assigned projects, and own responsibility for the development, support and execution of organizational change management strategies and processes for defined projects related to the company's aims & objectives
Ensures effective and consistent implementation of change projects, support on-going improvement efforts of project management and implementation discipline
Works closely with Strategic Delivery Manager and Change Owners to ensure project change needs are appropriately resourced and delivered in an effective manner, and benefits realized
Lead change enablement and adoption project resources, directing their activities to achieve assigned goals
Ensures alignment with the bank’s Enterprise Change Risk Management policy and Enterprise Change Management Office Procedure
Drives business value through Enterprise Change Enablement & Adoption processes and tools
Builds strong, collaborative relationships with Change Owners and delivery partners
Effectively manages and coaches Change Consultants in a direct reporting or matrix environment as required
Drives forward the Enterprise Change Enablement & Adoption’s goal to enable the organization to consistently apply common change management processes and tools, ensure all colleagues have the individual competency to lead change and have that reflected in their performance expectations and to ensure the application of change management is developed as a strategic capability with ECEA embedded in all large-scale programs
Serves as an active and visible coach to business partners, to model change leadership behavior, enablement, and integration into City National Bank change transformation delivery in alignment with the Enterprise Change Management Office and Enterprise Change Risk Management Policy
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
10+ years of progressive relevant experience leading large change programs with a high level of value (benefit/cost), and very high level of complexity and uncertainty
Experience managing a portfolio of large cross-enterprise programs/projects, programs/projects with third party vendors and programs/projects with significant technical and/or regulatory components
5 years previous experience working in a consulting, project/program management and/or dedicated organizational change management function in an organizational change leadership role
5+ years of progressive relevant experience leading project/initiative teams, including directing the activities of organizational change specialists or influencing the activities of those with influence over or partial responsibility for completion of OCM-related deliverables
Prosci or other industry-recognized organizational change certification
Preferred
MBA or graduate degree in relevant field preferred
ACMP Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) strongly preferred
Microsoft 365, enterprise collaboration platforms, SaaS-based organizational change, analytics and/or project management tools
Organizational Change Management
Team Management in a Matrix Environment
Vendor and Contingent Workforce Management
Impact and Influence
Leadership
Dealing with Ambiguity
Organizational Awareness
Resourceful Use of Others
Financial – Leverages understanding of business and financial concepts
Analytical and Conceptual Thinking
Stakeholder Management
Teamwork and Cooperation
Achievement Orientation
Benefits
Comprehensive healthcare coverage, including Medical, Dental and Vision plans, available the first of the month following start date
Generous 401(k) company matching contribution
Career Development through Tuition Reimbursement and other internal upskilling and training resources
Valued Time Away benefits including vacation, sick and volunteer time
Specialized health and family planning benefits including fertility benefits, and cancer, diabetes and musculoskeletal support programs
Career Mobility support from a dedicated recruitment team
Colleague Resource Groups to support networking and community engagement
Company
City National Bank
City National Bank offers a full complement of banking, trust and investment services. It is a sub-organization of City National.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Howard Hammond
CEO City National Bank
Fiyaz Khan
Senior Vice President, Structured Products
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