About the Role
The Business Solutions Group (BSG) team, within Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities Group (ISG), functions as an in-house management consulting team. This role will play a foundational part in shaping the team’s capabilities and delivering high-impact engagements, providing program management and delivery support for key business initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Provide program management and delivery support for key business initiatives.
- Coordinate across multi-disciplinary teams focusing on program planning, readiness planning, and program execution.
- Manage risk monitoring and remediation planning, and provide management reporting.
- 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, ensuring activity delivery.
- Communicate insights, recommendations, and progress updates through executive-ready presentations.
- 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.
- Oversee change management for high-impact transformation programs, ensuring successful adoption.
- Translate recommendations into detailed roadmaps with owners, milestones, KPIs, and governance structures.
- Ensure 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 drive sustainable outcomes.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- Program Management
- Delivery Support
- Business Initiatives
- Stakeholder Management
- Consulting
- Strategic Planning
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Team Leadership
- Mentoring
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Presentation Skills
- Project Management
- Organizational Change
Location
- 43 countries
Work Type
- Flexible working opportunities
Benefits
- Attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks
About the Company
- 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 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.
- 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 - 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
