Senior Product Manager, Sponsor Finance Technology

BMO Financial Group; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

BMO is seeking a Senior Manager, Sponsor Finance Technology to partner with the Sponsor Finance business in the U.S., driving enhancements across Salesforce and the broader technology ecosystem. You will translate business needs into tech solutions, manage priorities, coordinate releases, and ensure smooth adoption of new capabilities.

This highly visible role offers exposure to senior stakeholders and ownership of end-to-end initiatives from requirements through testing, training, and

Responsibilities

• Translates business needs into technology solutions for Sponsor Finance initiatives.
• Manages enhancement priorities and coordinates releases across Salesforce and related platforms.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to business leaders for technology strategy and adoption.
• Leads change management, readiness assessments, stakeholder engagement, and communication for initiatives.

Job description

About the Opportunity:

This is a unique opportunity to serve as the technology partner supporting BMO’s U.S. Sponsor Finance business, acting at the intersection of business strategy, technology delivery, and change management. As the Senior Manager, Sponsor Finance Technology, you will work directly with business leaders and technology teams to drive enhancements across Salesforce and the broader Sponsor Finance technology ecosystem. You will play a critical role translating business needs into technology solutions, managing enhancement priorities, coordinating releases, and ensuring successful adoption of new capabilities.

This highly visible individual contributor role offers significant exposure to senior business stakeholders, including Sponsor Finance leadership, while providing ownership of end-to-end technology initiatives from requirements gathering through testing, implementation, training, and post-launch support. The successful candidate will become a trusted advisor to the business, helping shape the future technology roadmap while supporting ongoing modernization and emerging AI-related initiatives. Ideal for professionals who enjoy bridging business and technology, influencing without authority, and driving meaningful operational improvements, this role offers an excellent pathway toward broader strategic, leadership, or technology transformation opportunities within Commercial Banking.

Acts as a subject matter expert on specific marketing and sales force programs and applications. Analyzes business opportunities to recommend new strategies, programs, and tactics. Designs and executes programs to improve the effectiveness of the sales force, including the development, enhancement, and maintenance of a suite of sales force applications/programs. Provides support to employees to facilitate the achievement of business results.

• Provides strategic input into business decisions as a trusted advisor.

• Makes recommendations to senior leaders on strategy and new initiatives, based on an in-depth understanding of the business/group.

• Acts as a subject matter expert on relevant regulations and policies.

• May network with industry contacts to gain competitive insights and best practices.

• Manages resources and leads the execution of strategic initiatives to deliver on business and financial goals.

• Conducts independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues.

• Develops the business case by identifying needs, analysing potential options and assessing expected return on investment.

• Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution.

• Acts as the prime subject matter expert for internal/external stakeholders.

• Defines business requirements for analytics and reporting to ensure data insights inform business decision making.

• Develops and applies the framework for databases; oversees database management in adherence with data governance standards.

• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyzes data and information to provide insights and recommendations.

• Monitors and tracks performance, and addresses any issues.

• Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.

• Leads the development of the communication strategy focusing on positively influencing or changing behaviour.

• Leads the execution of operational programs; assesses and adapts as needed to ensure quality of execution.

• Leads/participates in the design, implementation and management of core