Portfolio Growth Initiatives Manager

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance (basic and optional)

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Job summary

U.S. Bank seeks a Director of Portfolio Growth Initiatives to drive commercialization of priority Business Banking growth opportunities.

You will translate opportunities into scalable operating models, go-to-market plans, and measurable business outcomes, coordinating across strategy, product, channel, and technology teams. Responsibilities include establishing governance, defining performance metrics, and guiding initiatives from approval to long-term ownership, with a strong focus on customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Eight or more years leading strategic initiatives in commercialization, business transformation, product management, business development, consulting, program leadership, or related disciplines.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and delivering business outcomes.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive execution in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercialization of assigned growth opportunities from approval through launch, adoption, scaling, and transition to long-term ownership.
• Develop commercialization plans, operating models, and execution approaches that support successful market adoption and business outcomes.
• Drive alignment across business, product, channel, operations, technology, risk, and support teams to achieve initiative objectives.
• Establish success measures, monitor performance, and recommend actions to maximize growth, adoption, and business value.
• Identify and resolve risks, barriers, and dependencies that could impact commercialization success.
• Provide strategic recommendations, executive communications, and decision support to initiative sponsors and senior leadership.
• Support transition of mature initiatives to permanent business owners by establishing governance, processes, performance measures, and operational readiness.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder influence

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Agile methods

Financial services knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

Product Managers at U.S. Bank are customer obsessed in driving product visioning, planning and development to deliver on our human + digital product strategy and staying one step ahead of evolving economic, technological, and customer needs.

The Director, Portfolio Growth Initiatives is responsible for leading the commercialization of priority Business Banking growth initiatives. This role serves as the bridge between strategy and ongoing business ownership, translating approved opportunities into scalable operating models, go-to-market plans, and measurable business outcomes.

Working across business, product, channel, operations, technology, risk, and support teams, this leader drives execution, adoption, and scaling of growth initiatives from approval through successful transition to long-term ownership.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead commercialization of assigned growth opportunities from approval through launch, adoption, scaling, and transition to long-term ownership.
• Develop commercialization plans, operating models, and execution approaches that support successful market adoption and business outcomes.
• Drive alignment across business, product, channel, operations, technology, risk, and support teams to achieve initiative objectives.
• Establish success measures, monitor performance, and recommend actions to maximize growth, adoption, and business value.
• Identify and resolve risks, barriers, and dependencies that could impact commercialization success.
• Provide strategic recommendations, executive communications, and decision support to initiative sponsors and senior leadership.
• Support transition of mature initiatives to permanent business owners by establishing governance, processes, performance measures, and operational readiness.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Eight or more years of experience leading strategic initiatives in commercialization, business transformation, product management, business development, consulting, program leadership, or related disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and delivering business outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive execution in a matrixed environment.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in financial services, including business banking, payments, deposits, lending, treasury management, or merchant services.
• Experience developing executive presentations, business cases, recommendations, and decision support materials for senior leaders.
• Experience taking new products, capabilities, or growth initiatives from concept and approval through launch, adoption, and operationalization
• Expertise on the critical interdependencies among product model system elements that help and hinder performance; ability to plan and design solutions that synchronize resources to achieve business results using business metrics, key performance indicators, design systems, service blueprints, and reusability.
• Ability to anticipate shifting market priorities, internal and external customer needs in a manner that consistently adds value.
• Strong customer centricity to implement strategies and techniques used to ensure that customers have a positive experience with the organization's products and services at every touch point.
• Knowledge of technical aspects of software products; ability to design, configure and integrate technical aspects of software products.
• Knowledge of Agile ways of working, knowledge of processes, tools and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds; ability to apply knowledge of risk management appropriately to diverse situations.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants .

Benefits:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(