Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning & Investment Governance
• 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.
• Growth Opportunity Evaluation & Execution
• Partner with Product Owners, Regional Heads, and Global Product Leaders to scope, validate, and execute new commercial opportunities that accelerate the growth agenda.
• Translate strategic ideas into actionable delivery plans with clear KPIs, milestones, and economic impact assessments.
• Operational Execution & Delivery Oversight
• 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.
• Governance, Reporting & Performance Management
• 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.

Requirements

• Experience in programme management within Trading, Banking, Asset Management, or Financial Index products.
• Hands-on experience in driving large enterprise-wide transformation programmes
• Demonstrated strength in financial planning, resource allocation, cost governance, and risk management.
• Excellent senior stakeholder engagement, with the ability to influence decision‑making across matrixed organisations.
• Superior organisational skills with strong problem‑solving and analytical capability.
• Proficiency working with financial data, Jira, Excel, and expert‑level PowerPoint skills.
• Delivery‑focused self‑starter able to manage multiple initiatives across diverse workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience of driving complex initiatives with geographically dispersed cross-functional teams, in both Waterfall and Agile environments.
• Career Stage:
• Manager
• Compensation/Benefits Information:
• LSEG is committed to offering competitive Compensation and Benefits. The anticipated base salary for this position is $147,700 - $246,100.
• London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:
• Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.
• LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
• Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership , Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.
• Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our

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Additional Information

Job Overview 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.

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