Manager, Strategic Programs

Join a great place to work with MissionSquare, a financial services corporation with approximately $79 billion in assets under management and administration and over 600 employees.

Founded in 1972, MissionSquare is dedicated to the retirement needs of public sector employees.

We focus on delivering results-oriented retirement and retiree health savings plans, education, investment options, personalized guidance, and related services to public sector participants in more than 9,200 plans and nearly 2 million participant accounts.

We strive to make the administration of retirement programs as easy and cost-effective as possible.

We have an extraordinary talent base and invite you to consider joining MissionSquare.

$110,060.00 - $170,590.00

The Manager, Strategic Programs will play a critical role in advancing MissionSquare's organizational growth agenda by driving execution of the firm's most important transformation initiatives.

This role oversees a broad portfolio of cross functional programs and coaches initiative owners across the organization to ensure growth priorities translate into measurable outcomes.

As part of the Corporate Strategy team and reporting to the Vice President, Head of Strategic Programs, the role serves as a bridge between strategy and execution, bringing rigor, clarity, and accountability to initiatives that drive enterprise growth, operational effectiveness, and client impact.

This role is accountable for portfolio level oversight and execution of numerous concurrent initiatives, with a strong focus on initiative performance, outcomes, and value realization.

Success requires a blend of strategic thinking, program management expertise, and the ability to influence, helping leaders structure work, track progress, and deliver results aligned to MissionSquare's long term growth objectives.

Essential Functions for this role include:



* Oversee a portfolio of numerous concurrent strategic and growth oriented initiatives, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, clear ownership, disciplined execution, and measurable outcomes


* Coach and enable initiative owners to define clear scopes, success metrics, milestones, and governance structures that support consistent delivery and accountability


* Establish and maintain portfolio level performance tracking, including KPIs, milestones, risk indicators, and value realization metrics


* Partner with Strategy, Finance, Sales, Product, Investments, Operations, Technology and Human Resource leaders to align initiatives to growth goals, ensure appropriate resourcing, and assess financial and operational impact


* Monitor initiative health across timelines, dependencies, risks, and performance, proactively identify issues and drive timely escalation and resolution


* Translate strategic objectives into executable programs with defined outcomes, timelines, ownership, and performance measures


* Support enterprise prioritization and tradeoff discussion...