The Role
About Lord Abbett
Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, we’ve earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.
From the very beginning, we’ve recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.
We’re looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.
Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?
Job Overview
We’re looking for an individual who thrives on shaping an environment of peak performance.
Reporting to the Head of Program Management, Investments, the successful candidate will play an integral role in supporting the execution of key strategic, cross-functional, and investments initiatives. The successful candidate will have good judgment, excellent organizational skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to develop strong relationships and drive results.
We’ll Trust You To
- Develop and define project goals, scope, timelines, and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with project sponsors, project owners, and other stakeholders
- Create comprehensive project plans and documentation, identifying and managing dependencies, to track progress
- Lead and coordinate internal and third-party project resources for execution of projects
- Monitor project progress continuously and disseminate detailed reporting on project status and milestones to all project stakeholders
- Identify, monitor, and escalate project risks, constraints, and blockers to project sponsors, project owners, and leadership
- Conduct post-project evaluation and identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
- Lead cross-functional meetings, including setting agendas and preparing materials
- Create and deliver presentations to senior leadership, as needed
You'll Need To Have
- The ability to build strong, long lasting relationships
- A positive, team-oriented attitude and strong leadership skills
- A strong sense of urgency, excellent judgment, and strategic prioritization skills
- The ability to organize, plan, and manage several concurrent initiatives with varying priorities while maintaining acute attention to detail
- Superior written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present to senior leadership
- A growth mindset and continuously eager to acquire new skills to succeed in a dynamic evolving environment
- Proficiency in MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel
- Experience with project management technology and software preferred
- Proven track record of implementing complex financial projects including but not limited to launching new products, implementing technical platforms, and driving new process adoption
- 10+ years of project management experience in Financial Services
- A bachelor’s degree (or higher)
Why Lord Abbett?
Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.
- Principles-Led - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
- Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
- Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.
We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $160,000-$190,000 . Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.
Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.
Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett
Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.
Important notice to Search Firms - Please Read Carefully
Without prior written agreement, Lord Abbett does not accept unsolicited submissions from employment agencies, search firms, placement services, or any similar provider (“Search Firms”) for employment opportunities. All candidates submitted by Search Firms to any employee or partner at our company without a written Search Firm agreement in place will be deemed the sole property of our company. In such circumstances, no fee, commission, or other compensation will be paid to such Search Firm in the event a candidate is hired by our company. To the extent a Search Firm has a written agreement in place, all introductions are position specific and should be directed to HR or the hiring manager, so we kindly request no unsolicited phone calls or emails.
