Head of Enterprise Program Management

About this role

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 The Head of Enterprise Program Management will play a critical role in strengthening enterprise execution discipline and ensuring the successful delivery of large-scale strategic initiatives across the company. This leader will own the enterprise program management office and establish the standards, governance, routines, and operating mechanisms needed to drive disciplined execution against the organization’s highest-priority initiatives.

This leader will partner closely with senior leaders, business lines, functional teams, initiative owners, and the enterprise change management function to ensure that major efforts are clearly structured, well-governed, effectively prioritized, and delivered with clear ownership, integrated planning, risk management, stakeholder readiness, and accountability.

The successful candidate will be a highly structured, execution-oriented leader with strong strategic judgment, enterprise mindset, and deep experience leading complex, cross-functional programs. They will bring discipline, credibility, and practical rigor to ambiguous and high-impact initiatives, while helping senior leaders translate strategic priorities into clear plans, milestones, governance routines, and measurable outcomes. This leader must also be skilled at driving alignment across diverse stakeholders, identifying execution risks early, and ensuring that complex programs are managed in a coordinated, transparent, and disciplined way.

Essential Functions • Lead the enterprise program management office, including the development of consistent standards, tools, governance routines, reporting mechanisms, and execution disciplines for major strategic initiatives. • Establish and maintain a disciplined enterprise initiative portfolio view, ensuring clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and measurable outcomes. • Partner with the enterprise change management leader to ensure organizational impacts, stakeholder considerations, adoption risks, and readiness activities are appropriately integrated into major strategic initiatives. • Promote consistent application of enterprise change management best practices across strategic initiatives, ensuring program governance and execution plans appropriately address organizational impacts, stakeholder engagement, and adoption considerations. • Partner with senior leaders and initiative owners to translate strategic priorities into actionable execution plans with clear accountabilities, sequencing, timelines, and success measures. • Ensure major initiatives have effective governance structures, decision-making routines, escalation paths, and executive reporting. • Drive transparency and accountability across initiative teams by identifying risks, resolving barriers, monitoring progress, and enabling timely executive decisions. • Develop executive-level materials, initiative updates, decision documents, and governance reporting for senior leadership forums. • Identify opportunities to improve enterprise execution practices, reduce duplication, clarify ownership, and strengthen alignment across major programs. • Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional partners to influence outcomes without always relying on direct authority. • Lead and develop a high-performing team with strong capabilities in program management, stakeholder engagement, governance, executive reporting, and enterprise execution. • Drive measurable outcomes in a timely, cost-effective, and disciplined manner, balancing execution rigor with risk management, stakeholder alignment, and sustainable delivery.

Qualifications & Experience The successful candidate will have a proven track record leading complex enterprise programs, transformation efforts, or large-scale strategic initiatives in a highly matrixed organization. This leader brings a strong combination of strategic insight, operational discipline, executive presence , enterprise execution capability, and the ability to effectively partner across functions to support successful implementation of enterprise initiatives. They will have demonstrated success building program structures, driving cross-functional alignment, influencing senior leaders, and delivering outcomes across complex initiatives with significant enterprise impact.

Experience may include leadership roles in: • Enterprise Program Management Office / Transformation Office • Business Transformation • Strategy Execution • Operations or Business Management • Management Consulting • Large-scale technology, process, operating model, or organizational transformation • Regulated financial services or similarly complex enterprise environments

The preferred Candidate will have: • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, advanced degree, or equivalent experience preferred. • Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional enterprise programs or transformation initiatives. • Deep expertise in program management disciplines, including governance, milestone tracking, dependency management, issue escalation, executive reporting, and benefits realization. • Working knowledge of change management principles and experience partnering with change management teams to support large-scale enterprise initiatives. • Proven ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed organization with multiple senior stakeholders and competing priorities. • Strong executive presence and communication

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