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Job Description
Overview
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.
As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and a strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve, and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives, and needs is an important part of our culture.
The Business Solutions Group (BSG) team sits within Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group (ISG) and functions as an in-house management consulting team supporting the firm with strategic program management and delivery, large-scale transformation, operational improvement, and regulatory change or remediation. The team partners with individual business lines, Legal/Risk/Compliance, and senior firm leadership to drive initiatives to completion.
This individual will play a foundational role in shaping the team’s capabilities, delivering high-impact engagements.
Primary Responsibilities
As a key member of the BSG team, this individual will provide program management and delivery support for key business initiatives and will coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams with a key focus on:
- Program planning
- Readiness planning
- Program execution across all impacted groups (e.g. business, technology, operations, external stakeholders)
- Risk monitoring and remediation planning
- Management reporting
Key responsibilities will include but will not be limited to the following:
Executive Stakeholder Management:
- Lead high-quality, multi-workstream consulting engagements within ISG including front office, risk, finance, operations, and technology.
- Translate strategy into actionable plans with defined ownership and roles/responsibilities and ensure delivery of activities.
- Communicate insights, recommendations, and progress updates through executive-ready presentations and concise storytelling.
People Leadership & Team Development:
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- Serve as a role model for analytical rigor, strategic thinking, a “get it done” attitude, and professional conduct.
- Lead and mentor junior team members by providing coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities.
- Promote a collaborative, inclusive, high-performance culture that balances excellence with sustainability.
Change Execution & Implementation:
- Oversee change management for high-impact transformation programs, ensuring successful adoption.
- Translate recommendations into detailed roadmaps with owners, milestones, KPIs, and governance structures.
- Ensure that engagements deliver measurable benefits, improved efficiency, enhanced controls, cost optimization, or strategic alignment.
- Partner with business stakeholders and technology, operations, finance, and risk teams to diagnose issues, develop recommendations, and translate strategy into actionable initiatives and drive sustainable outcomes.
Operational & Financial Management:
- Track engagement economics, staffing, budgets, and performance metrics.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory expectations, internal controls, and the bank’s governance standards.
- Contribute to annual planning, portfolio management, and continuous improvement of team processes.
Skills Required:
- Proven ability to manage delivery/execution of a wide range of tasks and initiatives.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
- Proven experience developing partnerships with and successfully coordinating across various business and functional stakeholders.
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams where there is no direct reporting chain.
- Experience managing major organizational change programs, such as merger integrations or corporate restructure.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills.
- Ability to interact at all levels of the organization and tailor messages appropriately.
- Strong presentation skills, including ability to create polished PowerPoint presentations for various levels of management.
- Independent self-starter who can manage multiple activities to aggressive deadlines.
- Eagerness to learn the business and understand detailed technical requirements.
- Occasional travel may be required.
What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage, and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities, and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
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Certified Persons Regulatory Requirements:
If this role is deemed a Certified role and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.
Flexible Work Statement
Interested in flexible working opportunities? Morgan Stanley empowers employees to have greater freedom of choice through flexible working arrangements. Speak to our recruitment team to find out more.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
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