Senior manager job description
Updated March 14, 2024
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Senior managers are in charge of overseeing the achievement of the goals of a specific function, unit, or department in the company where they either already have tenure or were hired based on their expertise. They may also be in charge of managing groups of people in a department.
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Example senior manager requirements on a job description
Senior manager requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in senior manager job postings.
Sample senior manager requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in relevant field
- At least 7 years of management experience
- Demonstrated track record of success
- Proficient in business software
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Sample required senior manager soft skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate and lead a team
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Senior manager job description example 1
Google senior manager job description
Minimum qualifications:
+ Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
+ 8 years of experience in Supply Chain Responsible Sourcing, Social Compliance, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability in a leadership capacity.
+ Experience in legal, regulatory or compliance-related field.
Preferred qualifications:
+ Law or Policy-related professional degree.
+ Industry expertise and understanding of global manufacturing supply chains.
+ Experience working in the technology sector such as hardware / consumer electronics manufacturing.
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. That's why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you'll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish - working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us - and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
+ Understand current and emerging risks within the supply chain (materiality, geographic location, industry) and evolve the team and its programs to mitigate risks.
+ Design, plan and implement strategies to measure the performance and impact of Responsible Sourcing initiatives related to the well-being of workers in supply chains.
+ Provide data-driven guidance to support business decisions and inform purchasing practices.
+ Build coalitions and drive scalable, measurable initiatives related to worker well-being supply chain initiatives.
+ Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
+ 8 years of experience in Supply Chain Responsible Sourcing, Social Compliance, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainability in a leadership capacity.
+ Experience in legal, regulatory or compliance-related field.
Preferred qualifications:
+ Law or Policy-related professional degree.
+ Industry expertise and understanding of global manufacturing supply chains.
+ Experience working in the technology sector such as hardware / consumer electronics manufacturing.
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. That's why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you'll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish - working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us - and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
+ Understand current and emerging risks within the supply chain (materiality, geographic location, industry) and evolve the team and its programs to mitigate risks.
+ Design, plan and implement strategies to measure the performance and impact of Responsible Sourcing initiatives related to the well-being of workers in supply chains.
+ Provide data-driven guidance to support business decisions and inform purchasing practices.
+ Build coalitions and drive scalable, measurable initiatives related to worker well-being supply chain initiatives.
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Senior manager job description example 2
McDonald's senior manager job description
The ideal candidate must have an expert-level understanding of cybersecurity practices, cloud technologies, detection and response frameworks and methodologies, ethical hacking principles and techniques, and cloud technologies. The candidate must have extensive experience leading teams that emulate threat activities to benefit the organization and understand the stages of a cyber-attack (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, and covering tracks). The candidate must also be qualified to aid junior analysts in examining and analyzing system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return-oriented attacks, malicious code) and be familiar with adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures. The candidate must have experience in growing and leading a team with little oversight and be able to make quick and effective decisions.
You and your team will partner with our Incident Response, Remediation, and Cyber Threat Intelligence teams and leverage current adversarial techniques against the network based on the red team and cyber intelligence threat assessments. In this role, you will demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to being inclusive, a strong business acumen, and will show courage, even in the most challenging situations. You value strong communication skills, a passion for learning, leadership, resilience, and self-awareness.
Global Technology Risk Management (GTRM) is the team that is ultimately responsible for the securing of McDonald's information assets at a global level. This role works directly within GTRM, the
organization responsible for our Cybersecurity Operations & Incident Response program and critical services, ensuring our leadership makes informed risk-based decisions.
Responsibilities
Lead initiatives related to Attack Surface Management (ASM) and Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS).
Develop, plan, and execute strategic goals related to the Offensive Security Program and sustainable security improvements; work with the team to build and manage the program objectives and roadmap.
Utilize a metrics-driven approach to identify and implement improvements to current and new security processes; develop, measure, and track metrics to guide the team's delivery against the program's objectives and key results.
Design, implement, manage, and automate security operations capabilities - support proof of concept and production deployments.
Provide technical and administrative oversight and guidance to junior team members while performing technical operations.
Act as a liaison between technical teams and executive-level professionals to relay relevant testing results and findings.
Align deliverables and dependencies across multiple cross-functional global teams.
Manage and coordinate complex penetration testing projects involving multiple pen testing managers and security engineers, technology stacks, and development teams
Identify vulnerabilities and exposure within enterprise networks, systems, and applications.
Lead technical (evaluation of technology) and non-technical (evaluation of people and operations) risk and vulnerability assessments of relevant technology focus areas (e.g., local/market computing environment, network and infrastructure, enclave boundary, supporting infrastructure, and applications).
You and your team will partner with our Incident Response, Remediation, and Cyber Threat Intelligence teams and leverage current adversarial techniques against the network based on the red team and cyber intelligence threat assessments. In this role, you will demonstrate accountability, agility, a dedication to being inclusive, a strong business acumen, and will show courage, even in the most challenging situations. You value strong communication skills, a passion for learning, leadership, resilience, and self-awareness.
Global Technology Risk Management (GTRM) is the team that is ultimately responsible for the securing of McDonald's information assets at a global level. This role works directly within GTRM, the
organization responsible for our Cybersecurity Operations & Incident Response program and critical services, ensuring our leadership makes informed risk-based decisions.
Responsibilities
Lead initiatives related to Attack Surface Management (ASM) and Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS).
Develop, plan, and execute strategic goals related to the Offensive Security Program and sustainable security improvements; work with the team to build and manage the program objectives and roadmap.
Utilize a metrics-driven approach to identify and implement improvements to current and new security processes; develop, measure, and track metrics to guide the team's delivery against the program's objectives and key results.
Design, implement, manage, and automate security operations capabilities - support proof of concept and production deployments.
Provide technical and administrative oversight and guidance to junior team members while performing technical operations.
Act as a liaison between technical teams and executive-level professionals to relay relevant testing results and findings.
Align deliverables and dependencies across multiple cross-functional global teams.
Manage and coordinate complex penetration testing projects involving multiple pen testing managers and security engineers, technology stacks, and development teams
Identify vulnerabilities and exposure within enterprise networks, systems, and applications.
Lead technical (evaluation of technology) and non-technical (evaluation of people and operations) risk and vulnerability assessments of relevant technology focus areas (e.g., local/market computing environment, network and infrastructure, enclave boundary, supporting infrastructure, and applications).
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Senior manager job description example 3
Citi senior manager job description
The Fraud Risk Senior Manager accomplishes results through the management of professional team(s) and department(s). Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Contributes to standards around which others will operate. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the entire function. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Has responsibility for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of end results of an area. May have responsibility for planning, budgeting and policy formulation within area of expertise. Involved in short-term planning resource planning. Full management responsibility of a team, which may include management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary and terminations and may include budget approval.
• Manage and drive the issue management process from Start to Finish.
• Facilitates and ensures Issue Management Quality Standards are met for issues documented
• Act as Point of Contact for Issue and Audit Metrics.
• Transform raw data into useful metrics and reportable information for senior leadership.
• Develops and produces issue, audit and incident metrics for Senior Leadership on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
• Perform quality assurance over issues being reported on multiple executive level reports to include Monthly Operations Decks.
• Leverage communication and influencing skills to guide issue and corrective action plan owners and issue managers during times of distress during the issue management process.
• Manage/Lead a team of Issue Managers and a corresponding portfolio of control-related-issues.
• Keeps abreast of the organization's operational processes and best practices for business strategy.
• Build partnerships with supported Line of Businesses Operations leaders, process owners, client experience leaders, control leaders, and Training, so that efforts are aligned with strategy and department efforts, regular two-way communication exists, downstream impacts are considered and business solutions are optimized.
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Ability to manage teams.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications:
• 3-5 years of experience in Operations and/or governance/risk
• Excellent influencing, facilitation and partnering skills.
• Experience and ease in interfacing with senior management
• Individual should be analytical, flexible, and team-oriented, have good interpersonal communication, strong follow-up and time management skills with specific attention to detail and ability to multi-task and manage multiple requests.
• Ability to form cross-functional, cross-level relationships
• Technical proficiencies include: Citi Risk & Controls, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint required. Experience with COGNOS, CORE, iCAPs a plus.
Education:
• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred
PMP Certification strongly preferred
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Job Family Group:
Risk Management
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Job Family:
Fraud Risk
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Time Type:
Full time
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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi .
View the " EEO is the Law " poster. View the EEO is the Law Supplement .
View the EEO Policy Statement .
View the Pay Transparency Posting
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Effective November 1, 2021, Citi requires that all successful applicants for positions located in the United States or Puerto Rico be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and provide proof of such vaccination prior to commencement of employment.
• Manage and drive the issue management process from Start to Finish.
• Facilitates and ensures Issue Management Quality Standards are met for issues documented
• Act as Point of Contact for Issue and Audit Metrics.
• Transform raw data into useful metrics and reportable information for senior leadership.
• Develops and produces issue, audit and incident metrics for Senior Leadership on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
• Perform quality assurance over issues being reported on multiple executive level reports to include Monthly Operations Decks.
• Leverage communication and influencing skills to guide issue and corrective action plan owners and issue managers during times of distress during the issue management process.
• Manage/Lead a team of Issue Managers and a corresponding portfolio of control-related-issues.
• Keeps abreast of the organization's operational processes and best practices for business strategy.
• Build partnerships with supported Line of Businesses Operations leaders, process owners, client experience leaders, control leaders, and Training, so that efforts are aligned with strategy and department efforts, regular two-way communication exists, downstream impacts are considered and business solutions are optimized.
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Ability to manage teams.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
Qualifications:
• 3-5 years of experience in Operations and/or governance/risk
• Excellent influencing, facilitation and partnering skills.
• Experience and ease in interfacing with senior management
• Individual should be analytical, flexible, and team-oriented, have good interpersonal communication, strong follow-up and time management skills with specific attention to detail and ability to multi-task and manage multiple requests.
• Ability to form cross-functional, cross-level relationships
• Technical proficiencies include: Citi Risk & Controls, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint required. Experience with COGNOS, CORE, iCAPs a plus.
Education:
• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred
PMP Certification strongly preferred
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Job Family Group:
Risk Management
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Job Family:
Fraud Risk
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Time Type:
Full time
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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi”) invite all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to use our search tools and/or apply for a career opportunity review Accessibility at Citi .
View the " EEO is the Law " poster. View the EEO is the Law Supplement .
View the EEO Policy Statement .
View the Pay Transparency Posting
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Effective November 1, 2021, Citi requires that all successful applicants for positions located in the United States or Puerto Rico be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment and provide proof of such vaccination prior to commencement of employment.
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Updated March 14, 2024