Aon

Strategic Program Manager, Operating Model Transformation

Aon$102K — $135K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of project/program management experience, ideally in a consulting context
  • Hands-on experience with Global Capability Centers or Centers of Excellence
  • Proven track record of leading complex transformation programs
  • Experience in managing or supervising teams
  • Familiarity with matrixed, global organizations and engaging senior executives

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a transformation roadmap for governance and delivery
  • Identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate program risks
  • Raise critical risks and implement corrective actions with workstream leads
  • Drive planning and benefit realization tracking
  • Enable and maintain governance framework for program oversight
  • Define standards and processes for planning and reporting
  • Cultivate relationships with business leaders and cross-functional partners
  • Develop and implement a communication strategy for stakeholders
  • Support change management activities and impact assessments
  • Monitor adoption metrics and coordinate post-implementation reviews

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model allowing flexibility between virtual and office work
  • Opportunity to lead transformative initiatives in a recognized organization
  • Supportive team culture emphasizing collaboration and engagement
  • Access to development opportunities within a global framework
  • Engagement with senior leadership and career advancement potential
Full Job Description
Are you a Program Manager (non-technical) ready for a change in your career? This could be a phenomenal opportunity to explore!

We are seeking talent to support Aon Business Services (ABS) in a multi-year strategic Operating Model Transformation. Reporting to the Director of Program Management for partnering closely with an Internal Consulting team and collaborators across the enterprise, this role is responsible for running the governance, planning and performance management framework that enables successful delivery of the transformation across solution lines, regions, and functions.

This is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work both virtually and from one of our US offices.

What the day will look like

Key Responsibilities

Program Planning & Delivery Management
  • Build and maintain the collaborative transformation roadmap, including scope, achievements, critical path, and interdependencies across workstreams
  • Facilitate identification, assessment, prioritization, and mitigation of program risks and dependencies, ensuring regulatory, compliance and operational risks are considered in all program activities
  • Raise critical risks and recommended solutions to senior collaborators, and partner with workstream leads to baseline plans, monitor progress, and implement corrective actions where delivery risks emerge
  • Drive planning, measurement and tracking of progress and benefits realization, ensuring alignment to the defined argument and strategic outcomes
  • Support resource planning and allocation within assigned projects, including tracking team capacity and flagging resource constraints

Program Governance & Control
  • Enable and maintain the governance framework for the operating model transformation, including steering committees, program approvals, and design workshops
  • Define and administer standards, templates, and processes for program planning, status reporting, risk/issue management, and change control
  • Ensure decisions, actions, and dependencies are documented, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner
  • Manage the program calendar, including steering meetings, forums, and key decision achievements

Collaborator Management & Communication
  • Cultivate positive relationships with business leaders, key collaborators, and cross-functional partners to ensure agreement and engagement in transformation roadmap
  • Develop and implement a clear communication and reporting strategy tailored to executive sponsors, business leaders, and delivery teams
  • Produce high-quality program reporting (e.g., dashboards, status reports, executive packs) that provide clear insight into progress, risks, and decisions needed
  • Support change management activities in partnership with Change/HR/Communications teams, including impact assessments and engagement plans

Change Enablement & Continuous Improvement
  • Support changes and redesigns to the target operating model, including processes, organization, governance, and technology impacts, when challenges arise
  • Ensure that design decisions are traceable to strategic objectives and translated into clear implementation plans
  • Help define and monitor adoption and readiness metrics (e.g., training completion, process adherence, stabilization key performance indicators)
  • Coordinate pilots, phased rollouts, and post-implementation reviews, incorporating lessons learned into future releases
  • Continuously refine PMO processes based on feedback, metrics, and lessons learned

Skills and experience that will lead to success
  • 5+ years of proven experience in project/program management, preferably with a consulting firm
  • Hands-on experience establishing Global Capability Centers (GCCs) or Centers of Excellence (COEs), including operating model design, process transition, and governance framework setup
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-workstream transformation programs (e.g., operating model redesign, shared services, process re-engineering, or large-scale systems implementation)
  • Experience supervising or managing people.
  • Experience working in a matrixed, global organization with senior executive collaborators

Additional Skills and Competencies:

Discretion and Impact, Complexity and Problem Solving, Collaboration and Interaction, Organization Skills, Communication

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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About Aon

Aon plc is a leading global professional services firm that provides a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in London, England. Aon operates in more than 120 countries and has a team of over 50,000 employees. The company's services include risk management, insurance brokerage, reinsurance brokerage, human capital consulting, and retirement solutions. Aon is committed to helping clients manage risk and achieve their goals, and is known for its innovative solutions and industry expertise. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol AON.
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$1.9 billion
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Revenue
$11 billion
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