The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc

Strategy & Planning Specialist

Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; 2+ years of relevant experience preferred.
  • Experience in strategy development, business analysis, and project management.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, for executive presentations.
  • Ability to manage stakeholders across various lines of business and technology teams.
  • Knowledge of data analysis and metrics for business impact assessment.
  • Familiarity with AI and GenAI technologies is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Support strategic enterprise initiatives in developing and implementing planning solutions.
  • Analyze business issues and recommend solutions for multiple lines of business.
  • Conduct data collection, research, and reporting for assigned initiatives.
  • Prepare analyses and solution recommendations for key enterprise projects.
  • Collaborate with senior teams to identify effective solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with an HSA option.
  • 401(k) plan with PNC match and pension plan.
  • Generous paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and parental leave.
  • Educational assistance with select programs fully funded.
  • Wellness program with financial incentives and support for adoption and elder care.
Full Job Description

Position Overview

As a Strategy & Planning Specialist within PNC's Technology organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA or Strongsville, OH.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Scope of the role includes:

• Strategy and business analysis
o Ability to identify operational pain points and translate them into AI/GenAI opportunities.
o Experience developing business cases, roadmaps, and transformation strategies.
• Product Management:
o Ability to gather and translate business needs into product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
• Stakeholder management
o Ability to partner with Lines of Business (LOBs), technology teams, risk partners, and senior leaders.
o Strong facilitation and consulting skills.
• Program and project management: Ability to manage multiple initiatives, track milestones, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive execution
• Communication and executive presentations
o Strong written and verbal communication skills.
o Experience preparing executive summaries, presentations, and strategic recommendations.
• Data and analytical skills
o Ability to evaluate business benefits, operational impacts, adoption metrics, and value realization.
o Experience using data to support prioritization and decision-making.
• GenAI and AI knowledge (Nice to have)
o Understanding of GenAI concepts, use cases, deployment patterns, and AI fundamentals.
o Familiarity with technologies such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and enterprise AI platforms.
• Governance and risk awareness: Experience supporting use case intake, review, and approval processes. Experience supporting use case intake, review, and approval processes.
• Preferred background
o Strategy, business consulting, product management, process improvement, data & analytics, or technology transformation experience.
o Familiarity with banking operations, risk, and regulatory environments is beneficial.

PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description
  • Supports a strategic enterprise initiative to understand, analyze, develop and implement strategy and planning solutions.
  • Supports team in defining business and/or multiple lines of businesses problems, issues and solutions.
  • Participates in data collection, research and reporting activities for assigned initiatives.
  • Provides analysis and solution recommendation for key enterprise initiatives. Participates in development of presentations.
  • Collaborates with senior Strategy and Planning teams to identify solutions.

PNC Employees take pride in our reputation and to continue building upon that we expect our employees to be:

  • Customer Focused - Knowledgeable of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and able to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
  • Managing Risk - Assessing and effectively managing all of the risks associated with their business objectives and activities to ensure they adhere to and support PNC's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred SkillsBranding, Change Management, Collaboration, Communication, Creative Process, Design Thinking, Innovation, Machine Learning (ML), Personal Initiative, Strategic Planning, Teamwork

CompetenciesAccuracy and Attention to Detail, Analytical Thinking, Business Process Design, Data Gathering and Analysis, Effective Communications, Influencing, Planning: Tactical, Strategic, Problem Solving, Strategic Thinking

Work ExperienceRoles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 2+ years of relevant professional experience. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

EducationBachelors

CertificationsNo Required Certification(s)

LicensesNo Required License(s)

Pay Transparency

Base Salary: $63,750.00 – $106,250.00

Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.

Application Window

Generally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 07/13/2026, although it may be longer with business discretion.

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visitpncthrive.com.

About The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc

PNC is a financial service company providing bank deposit products and services to its community. The company assets (as of December 31, 2011) of approximately $271.2 billion. PNC operations include a regional banking franchise operating primarily in nineteen states and the District of Columbia with more than 2,700 branches, online and mobile services together with 7,400 ATM machines, specialized financial businesses serving companies and government entities, and asset management and processing businesses.

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$7.5 billion
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1845
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