About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

The Director of Program Management, is a member of firm’s central Strategic Design & Delivery team. This role works globally across the Client, Investment and Infrastructure platforms to oversee the Firm’s portfolio of largest and most complex strategic projects. Programs are typically ‘front-to-back’ impacting many teams & systems, requiring strong program oversight, governance & control. The role will require both developing the capability of Program Management in the team and wider Firm as well as acting as a ‘Program Manager’ on some our largest, most complex deliveries. As a ‘Program Manager’ the Director will work closely with all stakeholders to create & track program-level Objectives & Key Results ‘OKRs’; work with the Process Design Team & Product Managers to ensure design and business requirements are modelled in all plans using correct tooling and best practices; define and control risk & issues across the program and present recommendations for remediation to business sponsors; identify & co-ordinate dependencies with other programs & manage overall budgetary & return on investment tracking. Programs will typically be setup using the ‘scaled agile’ methodology, and there will be an opportunity to contribute to the development of this approach. The Program Manager will present to large groups inclusive of senior leaders and decision makers, spanning various parts of the firm, and deliver transformational initiatives using the latest toolkits. As the capability lead, the role will require establishing a strategy to build and foster adoption of best-in-class methodologies, toolkits and governance, as well as develop and hire talent that can excel as program managers. Each program manager is expected to work on several large programs. The role will be based in London or Boston, coordinating with colleagues across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.

RESPONSIBILITIES 
Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Program Management of their designated initiatives, covering applicable responsibilities including:

• Driving accountability for program progress against the vision, scope, roadmap, and the prioritized outcomes

• Ensuring business and infrastructure connectivity, strategy, and engagement across the globe

• Coordinating and facilitating working sessions with stakeholder groups from various parts of the firm

• Monitoring project progress, managing project risk and planning resource availability

• Estimate resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner

• Own the budget process and program / return on investment tracking

• Report against business outcomes/OKRs, consolidating workstream-level updates back to the Program stakeholders 

• Marshall the inbound delivery requirements and demand received from technology and the business, coordinating, consolidating, and prioritizing this demand in concert with a team of Product Managers (and pre-empting downstream dependencies)

• Work closely with Product Managers, business subject matter experts and technology delivery teams to define and drive the vision for a workstream or set of business outcomes and ensure role clarity on the team

• Identify opportunities, articulate, and translate business needs and strategies into actionable and executable visions and roadmaps across the program’s workstreams

• Establish and facilitate ongoing program governance that sits across multiple Agile teams/workstreams

• Lead and/or facilitate prioritized work and analysis that will help solve complex issues that impact the wider organization

• As well as leading the center of excellence for the firm’s program management capability, recruiting, developing the central team as well as training others in similar roles across the firm on program management best practices. 

QUALIFICATIONS
We seek the following qualifications:

• Demonstrated record of success delivering complex business outcomes, technology, technology change at the program-level (preferably in the