Program Manager - Strategy and Transformation

Our values define us and our culture inspires us to change lives for the better. Our employees are the heart and soul of our company, and every success we experience begins with them. Together we are committed to making a positive impact in our local communities. We champion a culture of continuous learning, work-life integration, and inclusion. We promote a digitally enabled work environment to continuously enhance the experience of our employees and customers.

 

Key enterprise leader responsible for partnering across senior leadership and cross functional teams to deliver transformative business outcomes. The Program Manager creates and drives enterprise strategies that drive efficiency, accelerate delivery, enhance customer experience, and enable revenue growth across lines of business, ensuring alignment with the corporate vision and strategic priorities.

• Partners with senior level leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable portfolios and OKRs, accelerates delivery through modern product and platform operating models and embeds governance that enhances speed, quality and risk control and ensures client satisfaction.
• Accountable for defining and implementing strategies across segments and/or enterprise, this leader prioritizes initiatives that maximize impact and foster enterprise-wide collaboration and execute strategy. Partnering closely with senior leadership across all lines of business and enterprise functions, the Program Manager ensures consistent alignment between the company’s brand promise and the delivery of enabling capabilities.
• Manages and develops strategies, including leadership of strategic partnerships and other initiatives that drive sustainable growth and efficiency. This position requires a visionary leader who combines strategic agility, operational excellence, and a deep understanding of customer-centric practices to achieve measurable business results.
• Lead the development and execution of strategic initiatives. Define strategic framework that provides clear direction and focus aligned to corporate objectives.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to deliver strategies that drive speed & productivity, cost & efficiency, quality & control and client satisfaction while enabling enterprise growth. Lead or participate in enterprise-level initiatives and priorities, ensuring alignment and measurable outcomes.
• Analyze competitive dynamics, industry trends and benchmarking, and business performance to identify needs and influence decision-making. Translate insight into actionable strategies that drive Operational Excellence.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

 

Additional Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Execution: Lead M&A and integration strategy and delivery across business segments. Serve as a change leader to support transformation and innovation across the organization.
• Operational Excellence & Process Optimization: Identify and implement process improvements to enhance productivity, reduce risk, and improve turnaround times. Drive transformation of traditional operational processes through digital solutions and emerging technologies.
• Technology & Data Transformation: Partner with IT and Data teams to lead automation, optimization, and transformation initiatives. Partner to establish and implement enterprise data and technology strategy and transformation.

Education

Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: business, finance, accounting or related. (Required)

Master's Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: business or equivalent. (Preferred)

Experience

15 or more years banking/financial services management in Operations and Technology (Required)

10 or more years executive leadership in strategy development and program and portfolio management (Required)

5 or more years strong financial and regulatory acumen, with proficiency in driving operational excellence (Required)

5 or more years experience influencing senior leadership and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders (Required)

3 or more years experience leading cross functional teams to achieve transformational impact (Required)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Effective leadership and managerial skills (Required)
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills (Required)
• Effective at goal setting and measuring results (Required)
• Excellent analytical, decision making and problem-solving skills (Required)
• Considerable tact, diplomacy and people skills (Required)
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment (Required)
• High level of integrity, professionalism and ethical standards (Required)
• Demonstrate the ability to set strategy at the enterprise level (Required)
• Project Management and Agile Methodology (Preferred)
• Data Analysis (Preferred)

 

This role may perform other job duties as assigned by the manager. Each employee of the Organization, regardless of position, is accountable for reading, understanding and acting on the contents of all Company-assigned and/or job related Compliance Programs, regulations and policies and procedures, as well as ensure that all Compliance Training assignments are completed by established due dates. This includes but is not limited to, understanding and identifying compliance risks impacting their department(s), ensuring compliance with applicable laws or regulations, and escalating compliance risks to the appropriate level of management.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges on all job postings regardless of state. We set standard salary ranges for our roles based on the position, function, and responsibilities, as benchmarked against similarly sized companies in our industry. Specific compensation offered will be determined based on a combination of factors including the candidate’s knowledge, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. The salary range may vary based on geographic location.

 

The salary range for this position is $164,600.00 - $274,300.00 annually.

Additional Compensation Components

 

This job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units. This job is eligible to participate in a short-term incentive compensation plan subject to individual and company performance.

Additionally, as part of our Total Rewards program, Fulton Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package to those who qualify. This includes medical plans with prescription drug coverage; flexible spending account or health savings account depending on the medical plan chosen; dental and vision insurance; life insurance; 401(k) program with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan; paid time off programs including holiday pay and paid volunteer time; disability insurance coverage and maternity and parental leave; adoption assistance; educational assistance and a robust wellness program with financial incentives. To learn more about your potential eligibility for these programs, please visit Benefits & Wellness | Fulton Bank.

Fulton Bank (“Fulton”) is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified persons. Fulton will recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, age, genetic information, marital status, disability, covered veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

As a condition of employment, individuals must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for a work visa by Fulton Bank currently or in the future.