Project Manager, Transformation Office

Location: Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; or Austin, Texas, United States. Hybrid work with at least three days per week in the local office or onsite with clients.

Base salary: $97,700–$195,200 per year, plus potential performance-based incentives.

Company

Marsh is a global risk, reinsurance, capital, people, investments, and management consulting organization serving clients in 130 countries.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end transformation projects involving platform builds, data, system integrations, process automation, and technology-enabled change.
• Develop project plans, delivery roadmaps, governance structures, decision-making forums, and project documentation.
• Coordinate business, technology, data, operations, product, architecture, vendor, and technical teams across requirements, design, testing, deployment, and adoption.
• Manage budgets, forecasts, benefits tracking, risks, issues, dependencies, resources, priorities, and delivery blockers.
• Prepare executive-ready reporting, facilitate meetings and workshops, and maintain stakeholder and sponsor communications.
• Integrate change-management activities, assess people impacts and resistance, support transition, conduct post-implementation reviews, and apply lessons learned.

Requirements

• 6–8 years of experience leading projects, workstreams, transitions, or transformation initiatives in complex environments.
• Experience delivering technology-enabled projects such as system implementations, digital builds, data and analytics initiatives, integrations, or process automation.
• Experience managing projects through the full delivery lifecycle, from initiation and planning through implementation, handover, and benefits realization.
• Familiarity with OCM/OD and people-focused change-management principles, methodologies, and approaches.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and navigating multiple, often competing, priorities.
• Strong understanding of project governance, planning, budgeting, risk management, dependency management, and reporting.
• Track record of delivering projects within agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality constraints.
• Excellent stakeholder-management, written, verbal, and presentation skills, with strong attention to detail and sound judgment.
• Ability to translate ambiguity into structured plans and actions, work independently with minimal supervision, collaborate across global teams, and manage tight deadlines.

Nice to have

• Project-management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum, or equivalent.
• Experience managing technical delivery projects involving data, systems, software development, technology platforms, or integrations.
• Experience in a large, complex, global organization with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Business-analysis, process-improvement, organizational-design, or change-management experience.
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Aha, MS Project, or similar tools.
• MBA or another relevant advanced degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment combining remote work with office and client-site collaboration.
• Health and welfare benefits, tuition assistance, 401(k) savings, retirement programs, and employee assistance programs.
• Inclusive work environment supporting diversity and workplace accommodations.