Program Manager

About BBH

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships. We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Responsibilities

• Lead larger scale complex, cross-function, and high-risk initiative(s).
• Apply Agile/Waterfall methods appropriate to the work.
• Own delivery: plan, governance, SDLC alignment, budget, risk, and stakeholder management.
• Set the standard for artifacts, controls, and execution discipline.
• Build and maintain integrated plans (scope, milestones, dependencies, critical path).
• Drive decisions, action items, and risk/issue closure; escalate with recommendations.
• Ensure fit-for-purpose testing and readiness (including UAT).
• Coordinate delivery across Project Managers, Change partners, and vendors.
• Partner with Project Managers to deliver clear reporting and executive updates.
• Facilitate meetings and align sponsors, business, technology, and vendors.
• Produce status communications for internal/external stakeholders, as needed.
• Communicate clearly and constructively to drive collaboration.
• Demonstrate ownership, follow-through, and results orientation.
• Provide oversight and guidance to direct reports and junior team members.
• Demonstrate leadership and assist in creating growth opportunities for the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Prior hands-on experience as a Project Manager delivering complex initiatives.
• 10+ years of program/project management experience delivering complex initiatives.
• Proven expertise across Agile and Waterfall delivery models and SDLC frameworks.
• Credible executive communicator with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong command of project/program management principles and methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across audiences.
• Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Solutions-oriented; applies design thinking where appropriate.
• Able to identify, escalate, and resolve issues and risks.
• Strong negotiation and mediation skills.
• Experience with Project Management tools, including Monday.com, Jira, Confluence, etc.

Nice to Have

• Experience with data projects or data tools such as Databricks or Snowflake.

Pay

Salary Range: $130,000 - $180,000 + annual target bonus. BBH and its affiliates' compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing.

Benefits

BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, supporting your overall well-being.

About BBH

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions, and a partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when tackling their hardest challenges.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development. Every day, we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts.

No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another.

As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products, and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to-day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers.