Global Strategy & Execution Lead

Marsh; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Marsh seeks a Strategy & Execution Planning Lead to join our Global Analytics and Advisory team in New York. This role will establish and manage the planning and execution cadence, delivering a consistent framework for region-led priorities established by GAA leadership and regional leaders.

The ideal candidate brings a strong consulting mindset, deep business acumen, and experience coordinating complex planning in a global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Seven or more years of experience in strategy, transformation, management consulting, project management, planning, business operations, or a similar role.
• Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional initiatives in a global, matrixed environment.
• Experience establishing management routines, performance reporting, governance forums, and accountability mechanisms for senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of operations, process improvement, modernization, execution management, and business planning.
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior leaders and influence without direct authority.
• Ability to partner effectively with business leaders and their teams to drive follow-through and execution.
• Comfort constructively challenging assumptions, identifying gaps, and offering candid, evidence-based recommendations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong ability to synthesize complex information into clear messages, practical recommendations, and executive-ready materials.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, work through ambiguity, and maintain attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with planning, reporting, dashboarding, and presentation tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the GAA CEO and senior leadership to establish and manage the planning process and execution cadence for the team’s strategic and operational priorities.
• Build and maintain a consistent planning framework across regions to support alignment, visibility, accountability, and region-led execution.
• Translate shared priorities into actionable plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and accountabilities.
• Establish and manage execution routines, including milestone tracking, action registers, dependency management, risk and issue logs, and regular operating reviews.
• Support leadership with regular reporting, progress reviews, action tracking, and follow-through.
• Provide analysis, recommendations, and decision support to help leadership assess progress, risks, trade-offs, and opportunities.
• Constructively challenge assumptions, identify gaps, and recommend actions with senior stakeholders.
• Monitor progress against plans, surface risks and dependencies, and escalate as needed.
• Develop reporting and executive-ready updates that communicate progress, risks, decisions, actions, and outcomes.
• Coordinate planning inputs across GAA, Technology, Operations, and other partners for integrated execution.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning, governance, reporting and execution processes.

Skills

Strategic planning

Cross-functional coordination

Governance & reporting

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Dashboarding tools

Planning tools

Job description

Marsh seeks a Strategy & Execution Planning Lead to join our Global Analytics and Advisory team in New York. This role will establish and manage the planning and execution cadence, delivering a consistent framework for region-led priorities established by GAA leadership and regional leaders.

The ideal candidate brings a strong consulting mindset, deep business acumen, and experience coordinating complex planning in a global environment.