Principal, Program Execution
Wellington Management · Boston, MA · 4 wk ago
TrainingFull-time
About the role
The Infrastructure Platform is the team enabling the firm's ambitious growth agenda. We are seeking a candidate who can help connect strategy to execution. Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining the planning architecture that connects the Infrastructure strategic plan to how functions set priorities, make decisions, and track progress.
- Running the operating cadence for the leadership team and ensuring the right conversations are happening at the right level.
- Diagnosing and developing recommendations for operating model questions as the business evolves.
- Designing and operating the Infrastructure strategy scorecard to provide clear visibility into outcomes.
- Proactively identifying and tracking risks and issues across the platform’s strategic initiatives.
- Designing and maintaining the governance model to make accountability clear and consistent across the platform.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience, including exposure to consulting 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.
- 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.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to turn complex operational situations into clear narratives for senior leaders, facilitate working sessions, and present to exec-level forums.
- Exposure to product operating models or agile delivery environments is a plus.
- Exposure to AI adoption or enablement work in an enterprise context is a plus.