About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
13About the Role:
The S&P Global Institute is S&P Global’s hub for thought leadership at an enterprise level. Drawing on the depth and breadth of analysis across S&P Global’s divisions, the Institute drives the creation of authoritative, enterprise-wide perspectives on the themes that matter most to the world’s leading decision-makers. Its mission is to foster market influence, deepen client relationships, and amplify S&P Global’s reputation as a trusted source of intelligence, while empowering divisions with shared guidance, playbooks for cross-divisional research, and tools to elevate their content and reach.
S&P Global Institute is seeking a Program Manager to shape, run, and scale the Institute’s operating model as a critical enterprise platform. This role translates strategic ambition into clear workflows, governance rhythms, and playbooks for cross-divisional research, enabling the Institute to deliver with consistency, pace, and quality from day one. The Program Manager will build strong connectivity with divisions and senior stakeholders, serving as the operational backbone that allows the Institute to manage complexity, coordinate enterprise priorities, and produce high-impact outputs across a matrixed organization.
The successful candidate will bring deep operating model and program management experience, combined with the judgment and agility to work across editorial, research, commercial, communications, and event delivery domains. They will combine rigorous attention to detail with enterprise-level perspective, balancing speed, quality, risk, and stakeholder expectations while influencing effectively across a complex matrix. They will be a trusted strategic and operational partner to the Head of the Institute, anticipating risks, maintaining delivery discipline, and building the infrastructure required for sustainable scale and measurable enterprise impact.
Responsibilities and Impact:
Operating Model & Workflow Design: Own and continuously evolve the end-to-end Institute workflow. Translate strategy into executable processes, governance rhythms, decision points, and playbooks. Build and maintain the operating model infrastructure that enables the Institute to scale from pilot to BAU, while developing integrated delivery calendars and resourcing views that provide clear visibility into capacity, commitments, and enterprise priorities.
Coordination with Divisions and Key Stakeholders: Serve as the day-to-day execution lead between the Institute and key stakeholder groups, including divisions, Editorial, Marketing, Communications, the CEO’s Office/Strategy, CCO, Public Affairs, and other priority enterprise partners. Coordinate inputs, sequencing, dependencies, and decision points across divisions to support flagship outputs. Ensure contributors have clear expectations on timing, roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths. Facilitate alignment forums and working rhythms that keep delivery on track and reinforce enterprise-wide accountability.
Cadence, Resourcing, and Delivery: Track progress against editorial calendars, delivery milestones, and enterprise commitments. Surface risks, trade-offs, and capacity constraints early, with clear options and recommendations. Partner with the Head of the S&P Global Institute on prioritization, sequencing, and resourcing decisions to sustain throughput, quality, and strategic focus as the Institute scales.
Measurement and Performance Management: Lead the Institute’s performance reporting and measurement discipline. Track impact, quality, speed, adoption, and stakeholder engagement. Produce dashboards, quarterly readouts, and decision-ready insights for the Head of the Institute, co-sponsors, and steering touchpoints with division and business leaders.
Key skills:
Enterprise operating model and program leadership: Proven ability to design end-to-end operating models, translate strategy into executable processes, and build playbooks that enable repeatable, high-quality delivery at enterprise scale.
Senior stakeholder influence and cross-functional coordination: Skilled at serving as the day-to-day liaison between the Institute and divisional research teams, editorial, CCO, marketing, communications, governance partners, and other enterprise stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to align matrixed teams, clarify roles and decision rights, and challenge constructively where needed.
Operational rigour with enterprise judgment: Combines accuracy, discipline, and strong delivery management with the broader strategic perspective needed to prioritize effectively, identify trade-offs, and support senior-level resourcing and sequencing decisions.
Ability to balance speed, quality, risk, and impact: Surfaces capacity constraints, sequencing risks, and trade-offs early; applies data-driven assessment and innovative problem-solving to keep the Institute on track as it scales. Proposes quality standards and delivery guidelines to Institute leadership and ensures they are embedded in Institute-sponsored research and outputs.
Performance management, insight, and executive reporting: Designs and runs dashboards and performance reporting that track impact, quality, speed, and adoption; produces clear, decision-ready readouts that enable the Head of the Institute and co-sponsors to assess progress, make trade-offs, and focus resources where they create the greatest enterprise value.
Compensation/Benefits Information: (This section is only applicable to US candidates)
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $126,676 to $221,434 USD. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual’s geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here.
What We’re Looking For:
Basic Required Qualifications:
8+ years of relevant experience in program management, operations, strategy execution, or a related domain within S&P areas of expertise, research, media, professional services, or another complex, insight-led environment.
Proven ability to design and operationalize complex, cross-functional workflows and playbooks in a matrixed organization.
Experience coordinating across editorial, research, events, and communications functions at an enterprise level.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities, including the ability to align senior stakeholders across divisions and functions, clarify decision rights, and drive progress without direct authority.
Track record of building and running performance reporting, dashboards, and quality disciplines in a fast-paced, high-standards environment, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight for senior leaders.
Comfortable working in ambiguous, evolving operating environments and building structure and clarity.
Collaborative, commercially aware, and execution-oriented, with the ability to balance strategic judgment and operational detail while influencing effectively across a complex enterprise environment.
Right to Work Requirements:
This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
Return to Work:
Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return to Work initiative, Restart, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.
What’s In It For You?
Our Mission:
Advancing Essential Intelligence.
Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
Benefits:
We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include:
Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.
For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries
Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:
At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
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