Principal, Program Execution

Wellington Management•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Infrastructure Platform is the team enabling the ambitious growth agenda of the firm and we are looking for a candidate who can help connect strategy to execution. You will own the planning cycles and governance structures that connect firm priorities to how our seven Infrastructure functions operate, build reporting mechanisms that give the leadership team real visibility into outcomes, and bring a clear analytical mind to operating model questions as the business evolves. The right candidate likely comes from a top tier strategy consulting firm and is eager to drive ownership and build things that matter inside a firm they can grow with. If ambiguity energizes you and you are genuinely curious about how large organizations execute strategy, keep reading!

Requirements

6+ years of professional experience, including exposure to consulting-style environments and work within large, complex organizations.
Demonstrated ability to structure complex, ambiguous problems and move them toward clear recommendations and action.
Exposure to governance design, planning cycles, or operating frameworks, even if at a project level in a consulting context.
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships across all levels of the organization recognizing that effective collaboration is critical to the success and impact of analytical work.
Able to bring the credibility and presence to engage directly with senior leaders, including articulating a clear perspective, constructively challenging when needed, and building trust quickly in a relationship-driven environment.
Able to navigate a collegial, evolving culture and understand how to drive change at the right pace.
Experience tracking and communicating program-level risks, issues, and dependencies across cross-functional stakeholder groups, including senior leaders.
Analytical comfort with data. The ability to own a scorecard, work with Finance and HR on underlying data, and produce analysis that holds up under scrutiny matters more than modeling depth.
Strong written and verbal communication. You will regularly need to turn complex operational situations into clear narratives for senior leaders, facilitate working sessions, and present to exec-level forums.
Bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to product operating models or agile delivery environments is a plus, though not required.
Exposure to AI adoption or enablement work in an enterprise context is a plus.
Financial services experience is helpful but the mindset matters more than the industry background.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the planning architecture that connects the Infrastructure strategic plan to how functions set priorities, make decisions, and track progress. In practice, this means owning the annual and quarterly planning cycle end to end, running the operating cadence for the leadership team, and making sure the right conversations are happening at the right level.
Bring a consistent, systems-level approach to how the Infrastructure Platform operating model needs to evolve as the business changes. We should be regularly asking whether the way we are structured still makes sense, whether work flows the way it should, and where the design itself is creating friction.
Own the design and operation of the Infrastructure strategy scorecard. That includes defining the right metrics, building the mechanisms to collect and track them, and producing reporting that tells a clear story about outcomes.
Proactively identify and track risks and issues across the platform’s strategic initiatives, and make sure the right people are seeing the right information at the right time. That includes managing dependencies across functions and workstreams, developing recommendations for how to resolve blockers, and giving the leadership team time and options to respond before situations become difficult.
Design and maintain the governance model that makes accountability clear and consistent across the platform and build the communication infrastructure that keeps the right people informed at the right level. That means developing communication strategies for major initiatives, facilitating working sessions with cross-functional stakeholder groups, and presenting clearly to senior leaders and exec-level forums.

Benefits

retirement plan
health and wellbeing
dental
vision
pharmacy coverage
health savings account
flexible spending accounts
commuter program
employee assistance program
life and disability insurance
adoption assistance
back-up childcare
tuition/CFA reimbursement
paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)