Senior Program Manager

Voya Financial

Senior Program Manager responsible for project planning and execution at Voya Financial. Leading significant projects with a focus on financial opportunities and community access.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeWindsor • Connecticut, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $114,480 - $170,070 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Primary point of accountability to business partners and other parties for project planning, day-to-day execution, management, implementation, readiness, and reporting of large and significant projects or medium to large programs (typically up to $15M) where scope is subject to change, contains high complexity, and high degree of risk, large number of resources, and complex organizational change issues that support moderate to complex business unit or corporate goals.
Accountable to manage and monitor project tasks and controls during portfolio planning, project planning, and delivery activities to ensure on-time and quality outcomes are met within scope and budget.
Work with a high degree of autonomy and apply expert/leading project and program management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project deliverables, processes, communications, presentations to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.
Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools.
Promote early awareness, communication, transparency and mitigation planning of critical dependencies, risks and issues within projects.
Anticipate and head off problems that can jeopardize delivery, budget, customer readiness, and customer acceptance.
Manage vendor relationships as required.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience managing large and/or significant projects or medium to large programs (typically $8M-$15M)
Experience within financial services or management consulting environments supporting retirement, wealth management, employee benefits, investment management or institutional financial services organizations.
Strong ability to promote, champion change; start with ‘yes’
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy
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 its expected impact to stakeholders at all levels of the organization to ensure understanding and buy-in
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 all levels
Demonstrates decisive decision-making orientation; ability to make timely, well-reasoned decisions that balance the needs of all
Ability to Influence and inspire without control; self-aware; applies good judgement; leads with passion; strong team building skills; sets positive tone; easy to get along with and at the same time commands respect; demonstrates courage
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 all levels of the organization
Continuous learner; quickly adapt to changing environment and personalities
Expert understanding of project management or portfolio management principles.
Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree, or related field or equivalent work experience required

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementprogram managementfinancial acumenportfolio managementchange managementrisk managementstakeholder managementproblem-solvingdecision-makingcommunication

Soft Skills

leadershipteam buildinginfluencecritical thinkingautonomyjudgmentadaptabilitytransparencycollaborationemotional intelligence