VP, Governance

Chubb•Readington Township, NJ

2d•$175,000 - $225,000

About The Position

The VP, Governance is a key leader within the Transformation & Delivery Office (TDO), responsible for designing and running the governance framework that enables disciplined oversight of the strategic portfolio. This role owns portfolio budget management, financial planning, executive decision forums, and governance routines that ensure strategic programs are transparent, well-controlled, and aligned to business priorities. The role manages the operating cadence for governance across TDO, including Decision Management Group (DMG) and Steering Committee meetings, executive materials, decision tracking, action follow-up, and portfolio-level financial visibility. This leader partners closely with program leaders, finance, business stakeholders, and executive leadership to support sound decision-making, clear accountability, and effective management of strategic investments. The title and career band/level for this position are flexible based on the candidate’s experience.

Requirements

Experience in designing and running governance frameworks for strategic portfolios.
Proficiency in portfolio budget management, financial planning, and forecasting.
Experience managing executive decision forums and governance routines.
Ability to ensure strategic programs are transparent, well-controlled, and aligned to business priorities.
Experience managing the operating cadence for governance, including meetings, executive materials, decision tracking, action follow-up, and financial visibility.
Strong partnership skills with program leaders, finance, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Experience in defining decision rights, escalation paths, approval processes, and accountability mechanisms.
Ability to establish governance standards and routines.
Experience ensuring governance forums are effective and aligned to decision-making needs.
Ability to maintain a governance calendar and operating rhythm.
Experience in preparing and executing executive meetings (e.g., DMG, Steering Committee).
Skill in defining agendas, required inputs, decision points, and expected outcomes for meetings.
Ability to ensure meeting materials are clear, decision-oriented, and distributed on time.
Experience in capturing and tracking decisions, actions, owners, and follow-up items.
Ability to keep governance forums focused on priorities, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, investment decisions, and delivery performance.
Experience in budget development, tracking, forecasting, and variance management.
Ability to partner with finance and portfolio leaders to ensure spending aligns with strategic priorities and financial discipline.
Experience providing visibility into portfolio financial performance.
Ability to translate financial information into clear implications, options, and recommendations.
Experience ensuring sound investment governance, including funding approvals, budget controls, and financial accountability.
Experience leading financial planning processes, including annual planning and reforecasting.
Ability to coordinate with finance and stakeholders to develop realistic financial plans.
Experience supporting scenario planning and portfolio trade-off discussions.
Ability to integrate financial planning with portfolio governance, roadmap management, and delivery expectations.
Experience establishing and maintaining governance reporting.
Ability to ensure timely, accurate, and decision-useful information for executive stakeholders.
Skill in improving the quality, consistency, and usefulness of portfolio reporting.
Ability to monitor governance effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.
Experience overseeing portfolio-level processes for decision tracking, issue escalation, and governance follow-up.
Ability to ensure risks, decisions, and issues are surfaced and addressed promptly.
Ability to maintain clear records of governance decisions and track actions.
Ability to promote a disciplined approach to accountability and follow-through.
Strong communication and credibility with executive audiences.
Ability to reinforce a culture of accountability, transparency, and disciplined management.

Nice To Haves

The title and career band/level for this position are flexible based on the candidate’s experience.

Responsibilities

Lead the governance framework for the TDO portfolio, including meeting structures, decision rights, escalation paths, approval processes, and accountability mechanisms.
Establish governance standards and routines that promote transparency, consistency, and executive oversight across strategic programs.
Ensure governance forums are effective, well-structured, and aligned to senior leadership and portfolio decision-making needs.
Maintain the governance calendar and operating rhythm for portfolio reviews, approvals, escalations, and executive checkpoints.
Own the structure, preparation, and execution of DMG and Steering Committee meetings.
Define agendas, required inputs, decision points, and expected outcomes for governance meetings.
Ensure materials are clear, decision-oriented, and distributed on time to support executive review.
Capture decisions, actions, owners, and follow-up items, and track them through completion.
Keep governance forums focused on priorities, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, investment decisions, and delivery performance.
Own budget management for the TDO portfolio, including budget development, tracking, forecasting, and variance management.
Partner with finance, portfolio leaders, and program teams to ensure spending aligns to strategic priorities and is managed with strong financial discipline.
Provide visibility into portfolio financial performance, including planned versus actual spend, forecast updates, funding needs, and investment trade-offs.
Translate financial information into clear implications, options, and recommendations to support executive decision-making.
Ensure sound investment governance, including funding approvals, budget controls, and financial accountability.
Lead the financial planning process for the TDO portfolio, including annual planning, reforecasting, and ongoing investment reviews.
Coordinate with finance and portfolio stakeholders to develop realistic financial plans that reflect priorities, timing, dependencies, and resource needs.
Support scenario planning and portfolio trade-off discussions to help leadership make informed investment decisions.
Ensure financial planning is integrated with portfolio governance, roadmap management, and delivery expectations.
Establish and maintain governance reporting for the TDO portfolio, including portfolio status, key risks, decisions, financial performance, and issue escalation.
Ensure executive stakeholders have timely, accurate, and decision-useful information about portfolio health and governance outcomes.
Partner with program leaders and governance stakeholders to improve the quality, consistency, and usefulness of portfolio reporting.
Monitor governance effectiveness and identify opportunities to improve oversight, transparency, and leadership decision support.
Oversee portfolio-level processes for decision tracking, issue escalation, and governance follow-up.
Ensure key risks, unresolved decisions, and cross-program issues are surfaced at the appropriate level and addressed promptly.
Maintain clear records of governance decisions and ensure actions are assigned, monitored, and closed.
Promote a disciplined approach to accountability and follow-through across the TDO portfolio.
Serve as a trusted partner to the SVP – Governance, Planning & Delivery Practices on governance, budget, financial planning, and executive portfolio oversight.
Build strong partnerships with finance, business leaders, program leaders, and senior stakeholders to support effective portfolio management.
Communicate clearly and credibly with executive audiences on governance outcomes, investment decisions, financial performance, and portfolio implications.
Reinforce a culture of accountability, transparency, and disciplined management across TDO.