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Senior Lead Program Manager, Product Management Business Readiness, Supply Chain Finance, Commercial Bank

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Hybrid
Charlotte, NC, USA
Senior level
Hybrid
Charlotte, NC, USA
Senior level
About this role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Program Manager to drive large-scale, cross-functional product and business readiness programs. This role partners closely with Product Management, Operations, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Commercial stakeholders to ensure non-technology aspects of product initiatives are fully planned, executed, and operationally ready for launch and scale.
The Senior Lead Program Manager provides strategic leadership across complex initiatives, translating product strategy into executable readiness plans that enable successful delivery, adoption, and sustainable outcomes.
In this role, you will:
  • Lead end-to-end program management for complex, cross-organizational initiatives supporting product launches, enhancements, and transformations, with a strong focus on business readiness (procedures, operating model changes, training, communications, legal and policy approvals, and operational impacts).
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing insight, recommendations, and structured decision support to drive alignment, manage risk, and enable effective execution across multiple lines of business.
  • Define and drive program strategy, roadmap, and governance, ensuring clear scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and success metrics across all non-technology workstreams.
  • Lead resolution of highly complex and ambiguous challenges, applying deep program management expertise, strong analytical skills, and business judgment to deliver scalable, long-term solutions.
  • Facilitate executive forums, steering committees, and working sessions to support decision-making, remove obstacles, and drive accountability across stakeholders.
  • Partner closely with Product Management to translate product vision and regulatory or operational requirements into executable readiness plans that support go-to-market success and ongoing operations.
  • Provide direction to cross-functional teams (Operations, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Training, Communications, and Change) to ensure coordinated execution and consistent outcomes.
  • Develop high-quality executive communications, including status updates, program materials, readiness assessments, and recommendations for senior management.
  • Anticipate downstream operational, regulatory, and customer impacts, ensuring programs are designed with sustainability, risk management, and controls in mind.

Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in Program Management, Product Operations, or Strategic Planning
  • Experience leading enterprise or product-centric readiness programs, including operational, legal, compliance, training, and communications workstreams
  • Experience supporting initiatives in regulated environments with significant risk and control considerations
  • Advanced executive communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Strong ability to operate in matrixed environments and influence without direct authority
  • Demonstrated success working closely with Product Management teams to enable business execution

Job Expectations
  • Ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving clarity
  • Willingness to lead through influence and collaboration across lines of business
  • Travel: 10% of the time
  • This position offers a hybrid work schedule
  • Willingness to work on-site at stated location on the job opening.
  • Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process

Top Skills

Compliance
Product Management
Program Management
Risk Management
Strategic Planning

Wells Fargo Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Office

355 W Martin Luther King, Jr BLVD, Charlotte, NC, United States, 28202

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