Director of Program Management
The Group
Morningstar's Research group provides independent analysis on individual securities, managed investments, portfolios, and markets. The group also collects and maintains high-quality data on the equities, managed investments, and fixed-income investments we cover in our database, one of the largest investment databases in the world. Morningstar is one of the largest independent sources of manager, equity, and credit research in the world. We transform data into insights that investors can use to reach their financial goals.
The Role
The Data team is seeking a proactive leader to optimize and drive the global cross-team execution of getting new data, calculations, and IP in the hands of investors. This vital leadership position will work closely with the Data Senior Management team as well as key stakeholders across the company to support project prioritization and develop, organize, and manage the activities of programs that cross multiple teams and are large and complex in scope. You will drive operational excellence by bringing data driven decision making to the forefront of our global team. The location of this position is in Chicago, but we are open to those in the North America or European regions.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead a team of program managers focused on end-to-end execution of multiple data initiatives cutting across teams and geographies.
- Influence and collaborate with senior leaders across stakeholder teams to ensure timelines and goals are met.
- Advance current operations management to ensure proper resource and capacity analysis and deployment. Develop measurements to analyze resource availability, utilization, and productivity.
- Develop key performance indicators and lead regular program review with business stakeholders to report on and facilitate conversations regarding KPI status, progress, resources, and risks.
- Establish and ensure team's adherence to program management standards.
- Deploy Asana across the data organization.
- Develop resource, capacity, and productivity dashboards and analysis of the Data team.
Qualifications
- 7 years of experience in project and/or program management.
- 3 years of experience in people management.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and sustain collaborative relationships across teams and regions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and execute projects that involve multiple stakeholder teams, the majority of which don't report to you.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully pivot between business and technology teams.
- Proven success working in a fast-paced environment while still producing high-quality, detail-orientated work.
- Knowledge and demonstrated use of LEAN Six Sigma tools.
- Bachelor's degree; advanced degree, certifications in project management and/or CFA a plus.
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