Voya Financial

AVP, Enterprise Project Management Office – Strategic Initiatives Lead

Voya Financial

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Windsor • Connecticut • Massachusetts • United States

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Salary

💰 $171,300 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own end‑to‑end execution of enterprise and cross‑business strategic initiatives , from early definition through delivery, stabilization, and value realization.
  • Serve as the lead delivery executive for the most complex, high‑risk, or high‑visibility initiatives.
  • Ensure initiatives align to enterprise strategy, investment priorities, value targets, and operating constraints.
  • Maintain accountability for outcomes—not just milestones.
  • Ensure change and adoption planning is embedded in the delivery lifecycle , aligned with technical milestones, decision points, and business readiness activities.
  • Proactively assess and manage change impacts, adoption risks, stakeholder readiness, and organizational capacity across initiatives.
  • Partner with Business leaders, Communications, HR, and Change practitioners to ensure effective engagement, readiness, and sustainment.
  • Ensure leadership and delivery teams clearly understand their accountability for change execution and adoption , while EPMO ensures consistency, visibility, and discipline.
  • Incorporate change readiness and adoption measures into health reporting and executive discussions.
  • Actively coach and mentor Program Managers, Senior Program Managers, and Project Managers on delivery leadership, stakeholder management, escalation, and change readiness.
  • Balance direct execution with leadership leverage to drive outcomes at scale.
  • Hold direct management responsibility for program and project management resources aligned to Strategic Initiatives.
  • Assign talent based on capability, experience, and change complexity , not just capacity.
  • Manage performance, development, succession planning, and role mix to ensure sustainable delivery capability.
  • Partner with Finance on business cases, forecasting, funding changes, and benefits tracking.
  • Ensure delivery decisions consider both financial outcomes and change adoption impacts .
  • Reinforce accountability for sustained benefits beyond go‑live.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior Business, Technology, Finance, and Executive leaders.
  • Translate complex delivery and change dynamics into clear options, implications, and recommendations.

Requirements

  • 15+ years proven experience as a hands‑on enterprise delivery leader in highly matrixed environments.
  • Demonstrated success leading large, highly complex, business‑critical initiatives with significant change impacts.
  • Strong understanding of change management principles as integrated into program delivery , not treated as a parallel discipline.
  • Ability to coach leaders through resistance, ambiguity, and large‑scale organizational change.
  • Strong executive presence; trusted decision partner to senior leaders.
  • Deep expertise in program governance, financial management, risk mitigation, and enterprise delivery.
  • Exceptional communication, judgment, and stakeholder influence skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
Benefits
  • Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
  • 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
  • Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
  • Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
  • Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
program governancefinancial managementrisk mitigationchange managementstakeholder managementdelivery leadershipbusiness case developmentforecastingbenefits trackingperformance management
Soft Skills
executive presencecommunicationjudgmentstakeholder influencecoachingmentoringaccountabilityorganizational change managementambiguity managementleadership leverage
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree or equivalent experience