Description

Key Responsibilities

Program Execution & Delivery

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and delivery roadmaps across all workstreams.

• Coordinate multiple workstream owners and stakeholders to ensure alignment and timely execution.

• Keep action logs current, follow up proactively with owners, and surface blockers early.

• Drive issue resolution, escalation management, and risk mitigation.

• Track progress against milestones and clearly communicate status to leadership on a regular cadence.

Executive Reporting & Governance

• Prepare executive-level status reports, decision-support materials, and governance updates that are clear, concise, and action-oriented.

• Facilitate governance forums, working groups, and executive steering meetings.

• Ensure deliverables, owners, and timelines are explicit and visible across all workstreams at all times.

• Manage dependencies across business, technology, risk, compliance, and operational teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of project or program management experience.

• Proven track record delivering large, cross-functional initiatives in complex organizations.

• Strong experience developing project plans, managing dependencies, tracking milestones, and driving execution.

• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and lead work across multiple teams without direct authority.

• Experience preparing executive-level presentations, reporting, and governance materials.

• Strong communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.

• Experience managing programs involving business, technology, risk, compliance, or operational stakeholders.

• Proficiency with standard project management methodologies and tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within financial services, insurance, banking, or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred.

• Exposure to enterprise resilience, operational resilience, crisis management, global security, business continuity, risk management, or governance programs.

• Experience working in global security, intelligence, or fusion center environments.

• Familiarity with crisis simulation exercises, incident response coordination, or real-event support.

Key Competencies

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a bias toward action.

• Solution-focused: identifies problems and brings options, not just issues.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.

• Comfortable operating independently in fast-moving, high-pressure environments.

• Confident communicating with and presenting to senior executives.

Location

Hybrid / Onsite (as required)

Candidate Profile Attributes

Strong backgrounds include:

• Senior Project Manager or Program Manager roles leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives involving business, technology, risk, compliance, and operations.

• Enterprise PMO leadership roles within large financial institutions, insurance companies, or other regulated organizations.

• Operational Resilience, Risk, Governance, Regulatory Remediation, or Enterprise Change Management programs in a project/program management capacity.

• Consulting engagements focused on program delivery, transformation execution, or large-scale change initiatives.

This role is likely not a fit for candidates who:

• Have only written frameworks, policies, or playbooks without direct delivery accountability.

• Have no exposure to time-sensitive, high-pressure operational environments.

• Cannot speak clearly to their role in an actual or simulated incident

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree