Strategic Project Lead

US Bank; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k) plan

Vacation and holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank in Cincinnati seeks a Strategic Project Lead to manage complex migration and strategic initiatives from planning through implementation.

You will partner with stakeholders across the organization to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, risks managed, and business objectives achieved. The role emphasizes critical thinking in evolving environments and requires strong organization, communication, and the ability to coordinate across dispersed teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project management activities.
• Experience supporting enterprise migration, transformation, or strategic initiatives.
• Ability to influence and collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge of project management practices.
• Proven ability to adapt quickly, navigate ambiguity, and drive results.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, enterprise-wide migration and strategic initiatives from planning through implementation, go-live, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables using project management tools.
• Coordinate activities across business lines, operations, risk, finance, talent, technology, and other enterprise partners to ensure project success.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and serve as the central point of coordination for project execution and communication.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, roadblocks, and opportunities, and proactively drive resolution strategies.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and stakeholder discussions to maintain alignment and momentum.
• Create executive-ready presentations, status reports, dashboards, and project communications for leaders and stakeholders.
• Support business readiness, transition planning, and implementation activities to ensure successful adoption of project outcomes.
• Work effectively in an evolving environment where priorities may shift and not all processes are fully defined.
• Analyze information, apply critical thinking, and make sound decisions to move initiatives forward despite ambiguity.
• Manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail and a focus on results.
• Collaborate with geographically dispersed teams and partners to deliver project objectives and business outcomes.

Skills

Strong organizational skills

Analytical thinking

Excellent verbal and written comms

Stakeholder management

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Tools

Smartsheet

Job description

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.

Help lead high-impact enterprise initiatives that drive business transformation. We're seeking a Strategic Project Lead to manage complex migration and strategic projects from planning through implementation. This role partners with stakeholders across the organization to ensure initiatives are delivered successfully, risks are proactively managed, and business objectives are achieved. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, adaptable, and thrives in environments where critical thinking and collaboration are essential.

This role requires the ability to work effectively in an evolving environment where processes may not be fully defined. Applies critical thinking and sound judgment to navigate ambiguity, absorb complex information, identify and resolve issues, and adapt project plans as business needs change. This individual will lead projects using traditional project management practices and tools such as Smartsheet rather than an Agile delivery framework.

This role requires working from one of the posted U.S. Banks location three (3) or more days per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex, enterprise-wide migration and strategic initiatives from planning through implementation, go-live, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables using project management tools.
• Coordinate activities across business lines, operations, risk, finance, talent, technology, and other enterprise partners to ensure project success.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and serve as the central point of coordination for project execution and communication.
• Identify project risks, dependencies, roadblocks, and opportunities, and proactively drive resolution strategies.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and stakeholder discussions to maintain alignment and momentum.
• Create executive-ready presentations, status reports, dashboards, and project communications for leaders and stakeholders.
• Support business readiness, transition planning, and implementation activities to ensure successful adoption of project outcomes.
• Work effectively in an evolving environment where priorities may shift and not all processes are fully defined.
• Analyze information, apply critical thinking, and make sound decisions to move initiatives forward despite ambiguity.
• Manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining strong attention to detail and a focus on results.
• Collaborate with geographically dispersed teams and partners to deliver project objectives and business outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 10 or more years of experience in project management activities

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience supporting enterprise migration, transformation, or strategic initiatives
• Ability to influence and collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Advanced knowledge of project management
• Proven ability to adapt quickly, navigate ambiguity, and drive results
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

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.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under