The Data Portfolio Management (DPM) Team executes planning, prioritization, and strategic alignment for critical data products in partnership with Data Management & Insights (DMI) leaders, key stakeholders, and internal customers. The DPM Team leads strategic planning activities required to ensure product delivery maximizes customer value, aligns with the Enterprise Data Strategy, and meets the Chief Data Officer's vision for data investments at the company.

About this role:

The Senior Lead Strategy & Planning Consultant will support the Data Portfolio Management team by engaging with senior business and functional leaders across the company to plan, prioritize, and report on the delivery of significant data investments. This role will provide principal level strategic consulting services to product managers, product owners, and other key product delivery stakeholders to mature strategic planning processes and enable DMI to be a more customer-focused, value-driven, and efficient organization.

In this role, you will:

• Communicate strategy and related business plans to management and stakeholders

• Consult with key partners to distill highly complex concepts into pragmatic, clear, and targeted solutions

• Develop or influence highly complex business and technical needs across groups and functions

• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large-scale, and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking, and coordination of highly complex activities and guidance to others

• Lead complex initiatives with broad impact and act as a key participant in large scale planning

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges

• Partner with executive management across Wells Fargo to define the business strategy then create and execute corresponding business plans and initiative

• Plan the formulate strategic business objectives for DMI's enabling products and services 

• Provide principal level strategic consulting services to client organizations

• Provide peer leadership with colleagues and provide guidance to less experienced staff

• Serve as the primary thought leader and liaison between the business units and a variety of support partners in achieving business deliverables

Required Qualifications, US:

• 7+ years of Strategy and Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to present and discuss information in a manner that persuades, educates, and enhances understanding at all levels

• Ability to work and influence successfully within a matrix environment and build effective business partnerships with all levels of team members

• Ability to prepare presentations, management reporting, and statistical analysis

• Ability to gather, organize, and interpret data

• Ability to work across multiple lines of business leading large scale initiatives

• Experience communicating in both written and verbal formats with senior executive-level leaders

• Experience managing complex projects in a large enterprise environment

• Experience with tracking, governance, and reporting of all initiative activities, including the development of key metrics and tracking of agile product delivery

• Experience implementing and/or executing Agile principles and frameworks

• Outstanding verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy

• Strong relationship management skills

• Knowledge and understanding of data management concepts, process, tools, and environments

• Management consulting experience at a top-tier consulting firm

• Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint) skills

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time