VP, Transformation Program Manager - Banking

Deutsche Bank AG; Milano; On-site; EUR 57,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance

Pension Fund

Welfare Plan

Banking services for employees

Job summary

Deutsche Bank AG in Milan seeks a Project/Program Manager to lead a broad portfolio of strategic, cross-domain transformation initiatives for PB Transformation Italy. You will coordinate business, product, technology and control functions, ensuring scope, timelines and outcomes are aligned with senior management expectations.

The role demands disciplined project management, strong stakeholder engagement across Italian and global teams, and the ability to translate business needs into executable

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience managing complex projects or programs in banking, financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Strong business analysis skills across requirements gathering and definition, process and impact analysis and solution validation; good knowledge of Project Management methodologies and MS Office.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities, maintaining focus on outcomes and critical milestones, with strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail and a proactive approach.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills, with experience collaborating across business, product, control, technology and data teams; ability to lead working groups, challenge constructively and drive decisions and accountability without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage senior executives and delivery specialists, and fluency in written and spoken business English.

Responsibilities

• Own projects and programs from initiation to stabilization, defining scope, milestones, deliverables, acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes.
• Translate business needs into traceable requirements and integrated plans; manage critical paths, dependencies, releases, testing, user acceptance, training, implementation readiness, transition and post-implementation review, ensuring controls and benefit realization.
• Translate Private Bank strategy into change across Italy, covering operating models, capabilities, client and advisor journeys and efficiency.
• Coordinate the design, enhancement and implementation of banking, investment, lending and wealth-management products and propositions, aligning business and infrastructure stakeholders.
• Lead regulatory, compliance and mandatory initiatives from impact assessment to implementation, ensuring requirements interpretation and traceability, timely decisions, control readiness and delivery evidence.
• Drive data quality, governance, ownership, controls, remediation, migration, reporting and analytics initiatives, aligning business and technical requirements.
• Coordinate Business, Product, Technology, control functions and other stakeholders, clarifying accountabilities and resolving interface gaps.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, owners, experts, teams and external partners; reconcile priorities and provide transparent reporting and decision papers to senior management, steering committees and portfolio forums.
• Identify and mitigate delivery risks and issues, define recovery actions, escalate material concerns and drive decisions to closure.
• Contribute to budgets, forecasts, resource planning, sourcing and vendor oversight, monitoring capacity and financial performance.
• Strengthen delivery practices, reuse standards and lessons learned, and foster a collaborative, accountable, outcome-oriented culture.

Skills

Project management

Regulatory change

Stakeholder management

Business analysis

English fluency

MS Office

Job description

Deutsche Bank AG in Milan seeks a Project/Program Manager to lead a broad portfolio of strategic, cross-domain transformation initiatives for PB Transformation Italy. You will coordinate business, product, technology and control functions, ensuring scope, timelines and outcomes are aligned with senior management expectations.

The role demands disciplined project management, strong stakeholder engagement across Italian and global teams, and the ability to translate business needs into executable