Workplace Solutions - Business Readiness Lead, Vice President

Aumni; Newark (DE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Newark, DE is seeking a senior Business Readiness leader to own end-to-end readiness across a portfolio, coordinating intake, assessment, planning, implementation, adoption, hypercare, and BAU transition.

You will guide three Associates, manage governance and risk, and partner with Communications, Procedures, and Training teams to deliver integral outputs. The role emphasizes stakeholder engagement, stage-gate decisions, and alignment with release governance, with

Qualifications

• Typically 7–10+ years in Business Readiness, change management, or transformation.
• Proven accountability for end-to-end readiness across a portfolio.
• Experience leading delivery teams and influencing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end accountability for Business Readiness outcomes across an assigned portfolio, including intake, assessment, planning, implementation, adoption, hypercare, and transition to BAU.
• Lead and allocate work across three Associates, balancing demand, complexity, capacity, and cross-portfolio coverage.
• Own portfolio readiness governance, QA, stage-gate recommendations, risk escalation, remediation, and adoption performance.
• Maintain partnerships with Communications, Procedures, and Training teams to deliver specialist outputs.
• Own intake, prioritisation, governance, scope, ownership, audiences, timing, dependencies, and success measures.
• Lead impact, stakeholder, operational, and change-saturation assessments and determine approach and deliverables.
• Allocate changes across Associates, lead the most complex changes, rebalance capacity as needed.
• Set expectations for integrated Business Readiness plans and ensure quality, evidence, and alignment with release governance.
• Provide formal, evidence-based recommendations at stage gates (proceed, conditions, remediate, escalate, or defer).
• Engage senior stakeholders and drive timely decisions and interventions.
• Integrate Business Readiness with Business, Product, Technology, PMO, Operations, Risk, and Controls plans.
• Establish working relationships with partner teams and elevate delivery risks.
• Oversee cutover readiness, release support, hypercare, and transition to BAU.
• Monitor readiness, adoption, and performance; remediate when off track.
• Maintain demand, capacity, dependency, risk views; advise Global Head on priorities.
• Coach Associates, promote peer reviews, and ensure consistent use of standards and tools.
• Use lessons learned to improve methodology and central service.

Skills

Business Readiness

Change management

Transformation

Operations

Product delivery

Program leadership

Job description

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end accountability for Business Readiness outcomes across an assigned portfolio, including intake, assessment, integrated planning, implementation, adoption, hypercare, and transition to BAU.
• Lead and allocate work across the three Associates, balancing demand, complexity, capacity, development, and cross-portfolio coverage.
• Own portfolio readiness governance, quality assurance, stage-gate recommendations, risk escalation, remediation, and adoption performance.
• Maintain the partnership model with Communications, Procedures, and Training teams, which deliver their specialist outputs while liaising with the central Business Readiness team.
• Own portfolio intake, prioritisation, and governance, confirming scope, ownership, audiences, timing, dependencies, complexity, controls, and success measures.
• Lead impact, stakeholder, operational, and change-saturation assessments with requestors and Business Solutions Owners; determine the proportionate Business Readiness approach and required deliverables.
• Allocate lower- and medium-complexity changes across the three Associates, directly lead the most complex or strategically significant changes, and rebalance capacity as portfolio demand changes.
• Set expectations for integrated Business Readiness plans and assure their quality, completeness, proportionality, evidence, dependencies, and alignment with release governance and control requirements.
• Provide formal, evidence-based Business Readiness recommendations at stage gates, including proceed, proceed with conditions, remediate, escalation, or defer within defined decision thresholds.
• Build senior stakeholder, sponsor, and people-manager engagement plans; identify resistance, cumulative change impacts, and organizational constraints, and drive timely decisions and interventions.
• Integrate Business Readiness activity with Business, Product, Technology, PMO, Operations, Risk, and Controls delivery plans, release calendars, cutover plans, and BAU transition arrangements.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with Communications, Procedures, and Training partner teams. These partners are responsible for designing and delivering their specialist outputs and will liaise with the central Business Readiness team; the Vice President will agree requirements, milestones, dependencies, and evidence, integrate their outputs into the overall plan, and elevate delivery risks.
• Oversee cutover readiness, release support, hypercare, and transition to BAU across the portfolio, ensuring ownership, exit criteria, unresolved issues, and follow-up actions are clear.
• Monitor portfolio readiness, adoption, operational performance, and stakeholder feedback against agreed baselines and targets; direct remediation when outcomes are off track.
• Maintain the portfolio demand, capacity, dependency, risk, and escalation view; provide clear recommendations to the Global Head of Business Readiness on priorities, trade-offs, and resource constraints.
• Coach the three Associates, review material assessments and recommendations, promote peer quality reviews, and ensure consistent use of Business Readiness standards, playbooks, templates, workflow tools, and reporting.
• Use lessons learned, quality findings, adoption data, and partner feedback to improve the Business Readiness methodology and central service.

Typical outputs

• Prioritised portfolio intake pipeline, demand and capacity view, and Associate allocation plan
• Approved impact and stakeholder assessments, Business Readiness scope and tiering decisions, and integrated portfolio plans
• Stage-gate readiness recommendations, quality reviews, supporting evidence, risk acceptances, escalations, and remediation plans
• Integrated Communications, Procedures, and Training requirements, milestones, dependencies, and delivery status supplied through partner-team liaison
• Portfolio readiness, adoption, cutover, hypercare, BAU transition, and post-release performance reporting
• Associate coaching and development priorities, partner feedback, lessons learned, and improvements to standards, playbooks, and tooling

Qualifications/Experience

• Typically 7–10+ years of experience in Business Readiness, change management, transformation, operations, product delivery, or complex program leadership.
• Demonstrated accountability for end-to-end readiness or change outcomes across a portfolio, including governance, prioritisation, stage-gate decisions, cutover, hypercare, and adoption.
• Proven ability to lead and develop delivery teams, allocate work, assure quality, and influence senior stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
• Strong experience coordinating specialist partner teams, including Communications, Procedures, and Training, while maintaining clear accountability for an integrated plan and outcome.
• Strong judgement in controlled environments, with experience managing operational risk, dependencies, escalations, competing priorities, and evidence-based readiness recommendations.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex portfolio information into clear executive decisions and actions.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.

Responsible for end to end business readiness within Workplace Solutions