Senior Program Manager: Global Delivery & Partnerships

Morningstar; Ambler (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 95,275 - 139,742; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match program

Stock ownership potential

Comprehensive health benefits

Sabbatical program

Family care leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Morningstar is hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead critical MCA initiatives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will coordinate partnership workstreams, contract repapering and restructuring, product and data delivery, and cross-functional execution with internal and external stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has strong experience coordinating globally distributed teams on complex business, technology, and commercial projects, with a track record of driving projects to completion

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 5+ years of project management experience; PMP or equivalent certification is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience with project management platforms such as Asana; knowledge of Jira is a plus.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional work involving product, technology, legal, compliance, analytics, commercial, and/or business development stakeholders.
• Proven success facilitating global team collaboration, including engagement with senior leadership and external partners or clients when needed.

Responsibilities

• Create and oversee project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, responsibilities, and deliverables, working with global teams on implementation.
• Own execution across MCA initiatives, maintaining visibility into priorities, timelines, dependencies, risks, decision points, and follow-through.
• Coordinate partnership, distribution, and commercial workstreams, ensuring internal stakeholders remain aligned on scope, timing, deliverables, and next steps.
• Drive follow-through on contract-related initiatives, including repapering, restructuring, amendment coordination, stakeholder review, and implementation tracking across existing and new agreements.
• Partner with Product, Data, Technology, Analytics, Legal, Compliance, Commercial, and Business Development teams to define project scope, business requirements, technical requirements, and handoffs when needed.
• Support onboarding and execution workstreams related to AI platforms, data delivery, product enhancements, launches, and other MCA growth initiatives.
• Communicate regular project status updates across MCA stakeholder groups, including senior leadership when appropriate, and escalate decisions, risks, or blockers clearly and promptly.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks, with a focus on dependencies that could affect revenue capture, product launch timing, partnership execution, contract completion, or client delivery.
• Analyze key metrics impacting project progress and/or project team performance and work with the business to resolve issues, remove impediments, and keep initiatives moving at a steady, predictable pace.
• Cultivate a culture of team collaboration grounded in open and honest communication, clear accountability, and practical problem solving.
• Drive continuous process improvement through feedback loops, retrospectives, documentation, and coaching to help teams improve planning, execution, and transparency.
• Partner with groups across Morningstar Credit Analytics and throughout Morningstar to support MCA’s product, technology, legal, analytics, partnership, and commercial priorities.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Asana

Jira

Job description

Morningstar is hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead critical MCA initiatives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will coordinate partnership workstreams, contract repapering and restructuring, product and data delivery, and cross-functional execution with internal and external stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has strong experience coordinating globally distributed teams on complex business, technology, and commercial projects, with a track record of driving projects to completion