Senior Manager, Digital Strategy

Huntington National Bank; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 93,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid leave programs

Paid holidays

Paid time off (PTO)

Job summary

Huntington Bank in Consumer & Regional Banking seeks a Senior Manager, Digital Strategy to translate digital strategy into actionable portfolio decisions, guiding near-term portfolio management and roadmapping with senior leaders.

You will lead a cross-functional team, design governance forums, develop business cases, forecast benefits, and drive value realization while aligning investments with strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 7+ years of experience in financial services, management consulting, or corporate strategy, including 2+ years of people leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead near-term digital portfolio management, developing and recommending roadmap execution sequencing based on value, capacity, dependencies, and strategic priorities
• Design and facilitate executive decision forums—collaborating with digital operations for governance and reporting, framing trade-offs, and driving alignment on portfolio priorities and investment decisions
• Own mid-range (1–3 year) digital strategic planning, connecting enterprise strategy to executable digital roadmaps for Consumer & Regional Banking
• Continuously monitor competitor moves, fintech developments, and consumer banking trends; synthesize implications into actionable perspectives for senior leadership
• Manage portfolio value forecasting, including aggregation of expected benefits across initiatives and scenario analysis to inform prioritization
• Oversee development of business cases in partnership with business, product, finance, and technology stakeholders, ensuring adherence to common standards and methodologies
• Establish and manage benefit realization tracking, holding initiative owners accountable to committed outcomes and surfacing variances proactively
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of digital strategy managers and analysts, building internal strategic consultancy capabilities
• Support senior strategy leadership in providing strategic guidance to business and function leaders across Consumer & Regional Banking

Skills

Strategic thinking

Portfolio management

Executive storytelling

Financial acumen

People leadership

Highly organized

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Senior Manager, Digital Strategy

Huntington Bank | Consumer & Regional Banking

The Consumer & Regional Banking Digital Strategy team is responsible for providing strategic and business planning leadership and support across businesses and functions within Consumer & Regional Banking. The Senior Manager, Digital Strategy is a critical leadership role responsible for translating digital strategy into actionable portfolio decisions, ensuring the segment's digital investments are well defined, strategically aligned, sequenced, and valued to maximize business impact.

This role leads a cross functional team and serves as a central orchestrator between business leaders, product managers, technology, and finance. The Senior Manager will drive near-term portfolio management decisions—recommending roadmap execution sequencing and facilitating executive decision forums to secure alignment—while shaping mid-range strategic planning informed by continuous monitoring of the competitive and digital landscape. The role also owns portfolio value forecasting, business case development, and benefit realization tracking in partnership with stakeholders, ensuring adherence to common standards that enable consistent, well-informed decision-making.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead near-term digital portfolio management, developing and recommending roadmap execution sequencing based on value, capacity, dependencies, and strategic priorities
• Design and facilitate executive decision forums—collaborating with digital operations for governance and reporting, framing trade-offs, and driving alignment on portfolio priorities and investment decisions
• Own mid-range (1–3 year) digital strategic planning, connecting enterprise strategy to executable digital roadmaps for Consumer & Regional Banking
• Continuously monitor competitor moves, fintech developments, and consumer banking trends; synthesize implications into actionable perspectives for senior leadership
• Manage portfolio value forecasting, including aggregation of expected benefits across initiatives and scenario analysis to inform prioritization
• Oversee development of business cases in partnership with business, product, finance, and technology stakeholders, ensuring adherence to common standards and methodologies
• Establish and manage benefit realization tracking, holding initiative owners accountable to committed outcomes and surfacing variances proactively
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of digital strategy managers and analysts, building internal strategic consultancy capabilities
• Support senior strategy leadership in providing strategic guidance to business and function leaders across Consumer & Regional Banking

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 7+ years of experience in financial services, management consulting, or corporate strategy, including 2+ years of people leadership experience

Core Competencies

• Commercially-oriented strategic thinker – Passion for understanding how digital investments create business value, with the ability to identify data to model, forecast, and test hypotheses
• Portfolio and decision management expertise – Skilled at structuring complex investment trade-offs, sequencing roadmaps, and designing governance forums that produce clear, timely decisions
• Storyteller with expert presentation abilities – Natural ability to build professional, concise presentations that tell clear, compelling stories to drive alignment with executive audiences
• Financial acumen – Comfortable building and pressure-testing business cases, value forecasts, and benefit realization models in partnership with finance
• Independent operator and people leader – Ability to take executive-level questions and proactively develop a perspective, while coaching a team to do the same
• Highly organized – Uses tools and systems to manage a multi-initiative portfolio with varying deadlines such that progress can always be articulated, and risks or delays are proactively identified and communicated

Preferences

• Financial Services industry experience – Experience working for a bank or consulting firm serving financial institutions; specific experience in consumer or retail banking a plus
• Experience with digital transformation programs, product operating models, or technology investment governance
• MBA or equivalent advanced degree

Exempt Status

(Yes = not eligible for overtime pay) (No = eligible for overtime pay)

Yes

Workplace Type

Office

Our Approach to Office Workplace Type

Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We're combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.

Compensation Range

Total Base Pay Range 93,000.00 - 189,000.00 USD Annua

The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education. Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan. In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including:

• health insurance coverage
• wellness program
• life and disability insurance
• retirement savings plan
• paid leave programs
• paid holidays
• paid time off (PTO)

Equal Opportunity Employer

Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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