Business & Transformation Program Manager

About the Department

The Enterprise Business Strategies & Implementation team serves as the execution engine for Franklin Templeton's most important strategic priorities. Working directly with the Co-Presidents, Executive Leadership Team, and senior business leaders, the team shapes and drives complex enterprise initiatives that advance the firm's strategy. Team members act as trusted advisors and transformation leaders, partnering across Investment Management, Distribution, Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, and Corporate Services to solve complex business challenges, influence decisions, and deliver measurable strategic outcomes. Employees gain direct exposure to executive leadership and the opportunity to lead work that shapes the future of a global asset manager.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Strategy & Execution

• Lead the execution of the firm's highest-priority business strategies and enterprise initiatives.
• Translate executive vision and strategic priorities into clear roadmaps, decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Advise executive sponsors, challenge assumptions, and drive timely decisions at the highest levels of the firm.
• Develop recommendations and decision frameworks for executive leaders navigating complex business opportunities and challenges.
• Anticipate business risks, opportunities, dependencies, and enterprise-wide impacts before they affect delivery.

Enterprise Program Leadership

• Lead complex business transformation programs, applying consulting-style problem solving, executive advisory skills, and strategic decision support from strategy through execution.
• Establish governance, decision-making, and accountability models that enable senior leaders to act quickly.
• Independently lead multiple high-impact initiatives with limited oversight and competing priorities.
• Evaluate business, operational, financial, legal, regulatory, and technology implications through an enterprise lens.
• Create momentum, remove barriers, and drive execution with urgency, sound judgment, and disciplined follow-through.

Executive Partnership

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to executive leadership and senior business stakeholders.
• Develop concise, decision-oriented executive communications, recommendations, and briefing materials.
• Lead executive workshops, strategic planning sessions, and governance forums that move decisions forward.
• Develop and communicate informed points of view, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive executive decisions.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Build strong partnerships across functions, businesses, and regions to advance enterprise priorities.
• Influence executives and senior leaders without direct authority, including when viewpoints or priorities differ.
• Create alignment across complex stakeholder groups and translate competing perspectives into a clear path forward.
• Promote accountability, transparency, collaboration, and enterprise-minded decision-making.

Change Leadership

• Lead the people and business dimensions of enterprise transformation and organizational change.
• Operate effectively through ambiguity, independently determine next steps, and maintain momentum.
• Quickly develop expertise in unfamiliar business topics and structure ambiguous challenges into actionable recommendations.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen operating models, governance, efficiency, and enterprise execution.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading large-scale business strategy, transformation, or enterprise initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience advising executive leadership and influencing senior-level decisions.
• Experience independently leading cross-functional initiatives across complex, matrixed organizations.
• Management consulting, corporate strategy, business transformation, or comparable enterprise leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar issues, form a point of view, and recommend action.
• Exceptional executive communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority, challenge constructively, and drive accountability through execution.

Skills

• Business strategy development and enterprise program leadership.
• Executive advisory, decision support, and senior-level communications.
• Business transformation, operating model, and strategic initiative execution.
• Organizational change leadership and stakeholder alignment.
• Enterprise governance, risk assessment, and decision-making frameworks.
• Financial analysis, business case development, and outcome measurement.
• Structured problem-solving and consulting methodologies.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate project planning, meeting follow-up, executive summaries, and related strategic work products.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role that can be based out of Stamford (CT), Boston (MA), New York City (NY), Short Hills (NJ), Washington (DC), Baltimore (MD), Fort Lauderdale (FL), West Palm Beach (FL), or St. Petersburg (FL), with an expectation of three days onsite per week. The position follows a 37.5-hour workweek, with standard working hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET.

Pay

Franklin Templeton offers employees a competitive and valuable range of total rewards — monetary and non-monetary — designed to support their well-being and recognize their time, talents, and results. Along with base compensation, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, a 401(k) plan with a generous match, and recognition rewards. We expect the annual salary for this position to range between $150,000 – $200,000, depending on location and level of relevant experience, plus discretionary bonus.

Benefits

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package, which includes a range of competitive healthcare options, insurance, and disability benefits, employee stock investment program, learning resources, career development programs, reimbursement for certain education expenses, paid time off (vacation / holidays / sick / leave / parental & caregiving leave / bereavement / volunteering / floating holidays) and a motivational wellbeing program.

• Paid Time Off: Three weeks of PTO in your first year
• Health Coverage: Competitive