Consulting Program Manager, Vice President

Qualifications

• Significant experience personally leading and delivering large, complex programs, with accountability for overall execution and outcomes.
• Proven ability to take end-to-end ownership, from structuring and mobilizing a program through implementation and delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-workstream, cross-functional programs involving senior stakeholders across multiple business or functional areas.
• Experience leading programs characterized by senior stakeholder involvement, multiple functions, significant organizational investment, and meaningful business outcomes.
• Strong experience establishing and managing program governance, including steering committees, executive engagement and reporting, decision forums, escalation processes, and program controls.
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing change across complex organizations and stakeholder groups.
• Demonstrated ability to proactively manage risks, issues, interdependencies, milestones, and competing priorities, including anticipating challenges before they affect delivery.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate effectively with senior sponsors, business leaders, operations teams, technology partners, and external consultants.
• Demonstrated ability to listen actively, read stakeholder dynamics, think on your feet, and adjust your approach based on the audience and situation.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority, constructively challenge others, facilitate difficult conversations, and drive stakeholders toward decisions and accountability.
• Sound judgment, including the ability to connect information across workstreams, evaluate alternatives, and make risk-based decisions in ambiguous or changing environments.
• Sufficient understanding of technology and operational dependencies to identify potential impacts, ask informed questions, and engage the appropriate subject-matter experts.
• Experience managing and integrating the work of external consulting partners within broader programs.
• Flexibility and openness to challenge, debate, alternative perspectives, and changing assignments.
• Financial services experience preferred but not required.
• Consulting or client-facing experience preferred.
• Experience leading regulatory, strategic transformation, operating-model, product, or technology-enabled programs preferred.
• Big Four or management consulting experience a plus.
• Project or program management certification a plus but not required.

About State Street

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services experience preferred but not required.
• Consulting or client-facing experience preferred.
• Experience leading regulatory, strategic transformation, operating-model, product, or technology-enabled programs preferred.
• Big Four or management consulting experience a plus.
• Project or program management certification a plus but not required.