Required Skills
Project Management – Building roadmaps, tracking milestones, managing cross-functional initiatives
Communication – Synthesizing complex information for senior leadership; strong presentation and documentation skills
Stakeholder Management – Facilitating meetings, gathering requirements across business, ops, and tech teams
Familiarity with financial services
Preferred Skill
Prior experience in change management
Strong influencing, relationship management, and partnering skills
Excellent qualitative and quantitative analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to deliver under pressure and provide insights in short timeframes
A team orientation, collaborative, and collegial style
Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
Tools – Excel, PowerPoint/Visio, and project management or BI tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Tableau)
Nuveen Business Process Improvement
The Business Process Improvement team is responsible for developing and executing business improvement projects from initial assessment to implementation. The team provides counsel to senior leadership of Nuveen and manages cross-functional initiatives. Responsibilities include identifying business improvement opportunities, synthesizing complex information, designing process maps, ensuring controls are in place to address risks, and communicating recommendations.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
Participates in meetings with various business stakeholders to help capture requirements and drive the implementation of process improvement initiatives
Assists with documentation of the various initiatives including problem definition, current state process mapping, key metrics, controls implementation and overall future state recommendations
Collects data for business diagnostics that helps quantify and prioritize projects along with team feedback and input
Assists with performing impact analysis and supports process evaluation to identify, analyze, and improve operations and service quality
Supports the team in ensuring initiatives are within the boundaries of the firm’s operational risk framework
Assists with creating execution roadmaps with key milestones and helps drive the implementation
Tracks and monitors initiatives post-implementation with key metrics to assess the new process
Educational Requirements: University (Degree) Preferred
Work Experience: 2+ Years Required; 3+ Years Preferred
Junior Project Manager - Financial services in Chicago at Open Systems Technologies
This position is listed as full time and onsite. It was posted 5 days ago.