Strategy & Execution Planning Lead

Marsh McLennan•New York, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Marsh is seeking a Strategy & Execution Planning Lead for its Global Analytics and Advisory (GAA) team in New York. The role establishes and manages the team’s planning process and execution cadence, providing a consistent framework for region-led delivery of priorities set by GAA leadership and regional leaders. Working with the GAA CEO, senior leadership, regional leaders, and their teams, the role provides structure, visibility, coordination, and decision support for operational and strategic objectives through analysis, facilitation, reporting, constructive challenge, and follow-through. The position coordinates planning and execution but does not set business priorities or make decisions on behalf of leadership. Decision rights remain with the GAA CEO, relevant senior and regional leaders, and initiative owners; regional and initiative leaders remain accountable for delivery. The role supports their work by maintaining planning frameworks, governance, reporting, operating routines, visibility, issue resolution, and accountability mechanisms across a global, matrixed environment. The role is hybrid and requires working in the New York City office three days per week. Marsh colleagues are expected to work in their local office or onsite with clients at least three days per week, and office-based teams identify at least one weekly anchor day for the full team to work together in person.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
Seven or more years of experience in strategy, transformation, management consulting, project management, planning, business operations, or a similar role.
Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional initiatives in a global, matrixed environment.
Experience establishing management routines, performance reporting, governance forums, and accountability mechanisms for senior leadership.
Strong understanding of operations, process improvement, modernization, execution management, and business planning.
Ability to work with senior leaders and influence without direct authority.
Ability to partner effectively with business leaders and their teams to drive follow-through and execution.
Ability to constructively challenge assumptions, identify gaps, and offer candid, evidence-based recommendations.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to synthesize complex information into clear messages, practical recommendations, and executive-ready materials.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, work through ambiguity, and maintain attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
Proficiency with planning, reporting, dashboarding, and presentation tools.

Responsibilities

Establish and manage the planning process and execution cadence for GAA strategic and operational priorities in partnership with the GAA CEO and senior leadership.
Build and maintain a consistent planning framework across regions to support alignment, visibility, accountability, and region-led execution.
Translate shared priorities into actionable plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and accountabilities with GAA leaders and their teams.
Manage execution routines, including milestone tracking, action registers, dependency management, risk and issue logs, and regular operating reviews.
Support accountability through regular reporting, progress reviews, action tracking, and follow-through.
Provide analysis, recommendations, and decision support to help leaders assess progress, risks, trade-offs, and opportunities.
Constructively challenge assumptions, identify gaps, and recommend actions while maintaining strong relationships with senior stakeholders.
Monitor plans, surface risks, issues, and cross-regional dependencies early, facilitate resolution with appropriate owners, and escalate matters requiring leadership intervention.
Develop management reporting, dashboards, and executive-ready updates on progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, actions, and outcomes.
Coordinate planning inputs across GAA leaders, Technology, Operations, and other business partners to support integrated execution.
Identify opportunities to improve planning, governance, reporting, and execution processes, and coordinate recommendations with relevant process owners.
Support planning and decision-making related to operating model design, resource optimization, location strategy, automation, digitization, and AI-enabled solutions.
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, internal clients, initiative owners, and relevant external partners.
Facilitate governance forums and operating reviews, documenting decisions, actions, owners, and deadlines and following through.
Stay current on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies that may improve delivery, planning effectiveness, and innovation.
Maintain the distinction between coordination and delivery ownership: initiative owners remain accountable for execution while this role provides structure, visibility, coordination, and follow-through.