Program Manager Jobs in Wolcott, CT (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Voya Financial is dedicated to creating a better financial future for individuals and communities. The Program Manager will serve as a strategic partner and operational integrator, responsible for driving execution of key initiatives across the infrastructure organization, ensuring alignment and effective communication throughout the process.
Responsibilities:
• Own and coordinate the end-to-end Infrastructure roadmap
• Drive roadmap definition, prioritization, and sequencing
• Maintain integrated initiative view, dependencies, and milestones
• Establish governance processes and KPIs
• Develop executive presentations and reporting
• Provide status, risks, and mitigation updates
• Translate technical initiatives into business messaging
• Oversee cross-functional programs
• Manage risks (including audit response), dependencies, and execution alignment
• Manage staff meetings, agendas, and follow-ups
• Coordinate all-hands and leadership forums
• Support operating model maturity across teams
• Oversee the planning leadership events, offsites, and travel logistics partnering with area Administrative Assistant
• Coordinate approach used across Infrastructure for hardware, software, and services contracts partnering with Infrastructure tower leads, procurement and IT Finance point persons
• Assist with the management of renewals and vendor relationships
• Ensure coordination across infrastructure domains
• Support transformation and automation initiatives
• Identify process improvements and efficiency opportunities
• Maintain documentation and tracking across initiatives
• Decision support and prioritization
• Stakeholder engagement
• Change management
• Budget and planning support
• Special projects
Qualifications:
Required:
• Strong ability to promote, champion change; start with ‘yes’
• Innovative leader with the ability to question status quo, influence change and provide forward thinking
• Expertly operate with ambiguity and limited information
• Strong soft skills and judgement; understands that leadership and people skills are critical success factors
• Strong Project/Program Management Financial Acumen ability
• Ability to communicate the need for change, its purpose, and it’s expected impact to stakeholders at all levels of the organization to ensure understanding and buy-in
• Demonstrated ability to be disciplined and flexible at the same time
• Ability to understand and articulate what is critical and what is noise; keeps team focused on the priorities
• Demonstrated ability to drive simplified solutions to complex problems to enable positive outcomes
• Demonstrated success of building partnerships and alliances across the enterprise and at various levels
• Demonstrates decisive decision-making orientation; ability to make timely, well-reasoned decisions that balance the needs of all
• Demonstrated ability of influence and execute organizational and mindset changes
• Critical thinker with proven track record of effectively leading execution and value through highly matrixed teams
• Comfortable under pressure with the ability to manage to tight deadlines while maintaining quality and managing to an acceptable level of risk
• Effectively, clearly and concisely communicate in all methods (verbal, written, presentation) to various levels of the organization
• Continuous learner; quickly adapt to changing environment and personalities
• Leading understanding of project management principles
• Demonstrated ability and experience (5+ years) managing large and significant projects and/or small to medium programs (typically $4M-$10M)
• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree, or related field or equivalent work experience required
Company:
Voya Financial is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of retirement, investments, and insurance. It is a sub-organization of Venerable Holdings. Founded in 1991, the company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.