- As a Senior Program Manager, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations leaders to shape strategic priorities and ensure execution excellence across the index business
- You will drive initiatives from strategic rationale and business case development through to planning, delivery, and performance measurement—ensuring alignment to FTSE Russell’s growth, resilience, and operational effectiveness objectives
- Lead the development of investment cases for growth, innovation, and operational resilience initiatives, forming a critical part of the annual FTSE Russell Investment Planning Process
- Contribute to the creation of the global product roadmap, ensuring strategic alignment and cross‑functional input
- Conduct ongoing assessments of the global indexing landscape to inform prioritisation, competitive positioning, and forward strategy
- Partner with Product Owners, Regional Heads, and Global Product Leaders to scope, validate, and implement new commercial opportunities that accelerate the growth agenda
- Translate strategic ideas into actionable delivery plans with clear metrics, milestones, and economic impact assessments
- Embed within Scrum teams to support delivery (stand‑ups, demos, retrospectives, backlog refinement), ensuring teams have clarity on Sprint goals and remain aligned to broader roadmap objectives
- Manage cross‑team dependencies, risks, and delivery constraints; shape rollout and deployment strategies across Product, Engineering, and Operations
- Identify process gaps and operational inefficiencies, driving root‑cause analysis and implementing corrective actions
- Build and maintain a streamlined reporting framework to support multiple governance forums (Scrum rituals, Steering Committees, Investment Committees, Board reporting)
- Leverage automation and data visualisation to enhance transparency of progress, risk, and impact
- Hands‑on experience in driving large enterprise‑wide transformation programmes.
- Experience in programme management within Trading, Banking, Asset Management, or Financial Index products.
- Experience of driving complex initiatives with geographically dispersed cross‑functional teams, in both Waterfall and Agile environments.
- Excellent senior stakeholder engagement, with the ability to influence decision‑making across matrixed organisations.
- Demonstrated strength in financial planning, resource allocation, cost governance, and risk management.
- Proficiency working with financial data, Jira, Excel, and expert‑level PowerPoint skills.
- Superior organisational skills with strong problem‑solving and analytical capability.
- Delivery‑focused self‑starter able to handle multiple initiatives across diverse workstreams simultaneously.
