Overall Program Lead II, Transformation

Description

The Senior Overall Program Lead (Senior OPL) is the accountable leader for some of GRS's largest, most complex, and strategically significant transformation programs. We are currently hiring for two critical opportunities: one leading a major transformation within Surety and one leading a strategic enterprise Data initiative. Both roles are central to advancing key business priorities and delivering meaningful, lasting impact across GRS.

 

This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution, partnering with senior business and technology leaders to shape direction, drive enterprise-wide change, and deliver outcomes that advance key business priorities.

 

As the leader responsible for overall program success, the Senior OPL drives alignment across business, technology, operations, data, finance, and enabling teams while navigating complexity, influencing executive decision-making, and ensuring successful delivery at scale. Beyond delivering results, this role plays a pivotal role in advancing Execution Excellence across GRS by elevating governance, strengthening delivery capabilities, and embedding consistent execution practices that enable lasting business impact.

 

 

What You'll Own

 

• Leads one of GRS's largest, most complex, and strategically significant transformation programs, delivering capabilities and outcomes that advance key business priorities.
• Serves as the overall leader accountable for program success, driving alignment, execution, and outcomes across business, technology, operations, data, finance, and enabling teams.
• Translates strategic objectives into an integrated, prioritized roadmap spanning multiple functions, platforms, and workstreams.
• Leads executive governance, guiding investment, prioritization, risk, and tradeoff decisions while enabling transparent and effective decision-making.
• Owns delivery of business outcomes and value realization, ensuring execution remains tightly aligned to strategic objectives and expected benefits.
• Drives organizational change and adoption across broad stakeholder groups, building readiness and sustained business value.
• Establishes the operating model, governance approach, and execution standards required to successfully deliver transformational change at scale.
• Advances execution maturity across the organization by strengthening delivery capabilities, coaching leaders, and raising the bar on program excellence.

 

How You'll Show Up

 

• Influence through partnership. Build trusted relationships across business, technology, and operational leaders to align priorities, navigate complexity, and drive outcomes.
• Create clarity from ambiguity. Bring structure, focus, and direction to complex challenges, helping teams and leaders make confident decisions and move forward with purpose.
• Lead with transparency and accountability. Surface risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs early while fostering trust, ownership, and informed decision-making.
• Create a culture of execution excellence. Establish high standards for collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and delivery, enabling teams to perform at their best while remaining focused on outcomes and value.
• Elevate those around you. Develop talent, strengthen teams, and cultivate an environment where people can grow, contribute, and deliver exceptional results together.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 8–10+ years of experience leading large, complex transformation programs spanning multiple functions or platforms.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise‑significant initiatives with high operational, financial, or regulatory impact.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and executive‑influencing skills; able to drive alignment and executive‑level decision‑making.
• Mastery of governance design, cross‑program dependency management, investment tradeoffs, and navigating multi‑layered stakeholder environments.
• Drives disciplined planning, transparent reporting, high‑quality decision framing, and rigorous RAID practices.
• Recognized as a leader who fosters a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration while challenging teams toward higher execution standards.
• Skilled at building psychologically safe environments where diverse perspectives are valued and converted into stronger outcomes.
• Ability to coach and elevate workstream leads and emerging program leaders; contributes to maturing organizational delivery capability.