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Head of Corporate Finance/IM/ERM Portfolio
Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts
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Overview
A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
The Opportunity
We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Program Manager to manage a number of long-term programs to implement the target state operating models and other strategy changes across our finance, investments and risk organizations. This program will optimize and transform the people, process, and technology-related execution of these capabilities. This is a multi-year, significant effort with a deep investment of attention and resources. The programs will significantly transform the financial processes for the company.
Using your deep program management expertise and experience managing programs similar in scale and impact, you will work with stakeholders throughout the enterprise, especially in our Investment Management, Finance, Risk and Technology organizations. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of managing transformational, enterprise-wide, complex projects with significant budgets and effectively coordinating and aligning a cross-functional team. This role is critical to ensuring a seamless program process, providing a framework for leaders to align business processes, and achieving this program’s return on investment. This is a multi-year initiative that could result in material changes to the way we do business.
The Team
This role reports to the Head of the Corporate Function Program Management Office (CFPMO). The CFPMO was established to oversee the execution of projects across Corporate Finance, Enterprise Risk, Investment Management, Law, and HR & Employee Experience, as well as define and own project management standards across the company. The team is focused on creating more visibility into this work, while enabling better improved prioritization, collaboration, and execution.
This role will leverage and champion the project management standards and practices and partner with their CFPMO teammates, especially the Portfolio Managers aligned to each Corporate Function to ensure coordination and address interdependencies between the portfolios. The role will closely collaborate with program sponsors across the organization along with the executive leadership team steering committee.
**Key Responsibilities**
1. **Planning and prioritization**
- Define, own and facilitate the project prioritization process across IM, CFO and ERM for projects factoring in available capacity and benefits
- Lead work, partnering with the Executive and Program Sponsors, to establish timelines, set milestones and identify and acquire the resources required
2. **Stakeholder Management**
- Understand the needs and expectations of stakeholders throughout the Program Governance Structure, managing concerns and feedback promptly
Establish the framework and oversee collaboration by driving discussions and decisioning, instilling consistency, and promoting discipline in defining and managing the delivery of the program
Act as a trusted strategic advisor to all stakeholders, ensuring the target operating model aligns with enterprise strategic goals
3. **Process Integration**
- Evaluate existing project management processes, systems, and structures across functions to build the program; this will include a cross-functional team and potentially contracting and directly managing third party resources
- Ensure program execution strategy is aligned with business strategies, company policies and target operating model expected outcomes and delivered upon consistently for value
-Analyze, understand and communicate the tradeoffs involved with roadmap and prioritization decisions
4. **Change Management**
- Build relationships and work closely with key stakeholders to identify areas of focus, anticipate change impacts, and assess change readiness
- Develop and deliver change management strategies to support a smooth transition, including effective communication, training, and ongoing support
- Support this program through unexpected events, ambiguous information or changes in scope, timeline or stakeholder needs
5. **Program Governance**
- Define success metrics and monitor against established goals and milestones
- Provide centralized and regular visibility via status reporting and demand capacity monitoring
- Communicate risks, issues and dependencies and drive collaborative, coordinated decision-making and resolution efforts amongst stakeholders
- Enable and ensure consistent implementation of people, process and technology improvements and plans to sustain them
6. **Team Leadership**
- Design, build and lead direct program management team, that is diverse and inclusive, to deliver program
- Provide clear direction, support, motivation and development opportunities to team members
Role model an agile mindset through change and ambiguity; inspire others and drive culture of continuous improvement.
The Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
7+ years of experience in project management
Proven success in delivering projects on time, within budget, and to scope
Strong understanding of project management methodologies
Proficiency in project management software including but not limited to MS Project, Smartsheet, and Jira as well as dashboarding and visualization tools (e.g., MicroStrategy, Tableau, PowerBI)
The Ideal Qualifications
10+ years of program and project management experience
7+ years of experience leading and managing people/teams
5+ years of experience leading, managing, or contributing to projects within Investment Management, Corporate Finance, and/or Enterprise Risk functions
Robust knowledge of Investment Management, Corporate Finance, and/or Enterprise Risk Management domains, acumen, processes, and systems as well as interdependencies between end-to-end or shared processes
Experience in financial services
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent
Agile/Waterfall project management experience
Robust knowledge and experience with best practices, especially related to communications, reporting, prioritization, capacity and resource planning, forecasting, financial planning, and performance measurement
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
Regular meetings with the CFPMO
Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
Access to mentorship opportunities
Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
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Salary Range: $167,800.00-$220,200.00
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By the numbers*
- 88% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to bring forth new ideas - 86% of employee respondents say MassMutual cares about and supports the well-being of their employees
*Source: 2024 MassMutual employee engagement survey
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
How We Work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Benefit details can be found here.
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