Program Manager

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Position Summary: As reputed company undergoes a multi-year reputed company transformation, we are building the capabilities, systems, and culture to deliver greater impact at scale. We are seeking a highly reputed company Program Manager (1-year contract) to reputed company the orchestration and delivery of programs under the Transformation Management Office (TMO) Portfolio, including, but not limited to, reputed company’ reputed company Transformation (MET). Reporting to the Director, reputed company Transformation, this role is accountable for ensuring alignment, integration, and delivery across multiple corporate initiatives. The Program Manager serves as the central coordination reputed company across programs, enabling effective prioritization, managing cross-program dependencies, reporting on the integrated project plan, and ensuring leadership has clear visibility into reputed company, risks, issues, and required reputed company. This is a hands-on leadership role supporting leadership and driving execution. The successful candidate will bring strong judgment, the ability to navigate ambiguity, and a track record of driving trade-offs and reputed company in reputed company, multi‑reputed company environments. Key Responsibilities: Program Leadership and Execution: reputed company leadership and governance across the TMO portfolio, ensuring reputed company transformation initiatives are reputed company with organizational priorities reputed company the end-to-end delivery of reputed company Transformation programs, including planning, execution, risks and issues management, dependency management, budget management, stakeholder engagement, and delivery of key program reputed company. Work closely with sponsors, workstream leads, and cross-functional teams to integrate multiple workstreams, ensuring a coordinated integrated roadmap to achieving program milestones and successful adoption and reputed company. Manage vendor coordination and governance, including day-to-day management of consulting partner relationships. Prepare materials for the Executive Steering Committee (ESC) on program delivery. Ensure that project and program-level risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities are identified, assessed, and mitigated throughout the program lifecycle. reputed company regular updates in both written reports and verbally to senior leadership, workstream leads, and stakeholders on program reputed company, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and risks. Governance, and Program reputed company: Own the development and maintenance of the reputed company transformation roadmap reputed company to strategic priorities. Track and report on KPIs to ensure that program goals are met. Ensure adherence to program governance frameworks, ensuring consistency and efficiency across the transformation Portfolio. Stakeholder Engagement, Risk Management and Delivery Alignment: Serve as the central reputed company of contact for program communication, ensuring transparent, clear, and timely updates across reputed company reputed company of the organization. Build and maintain effective working relationships with business units, sponsors, and workstream leads to ensure alignment on program goals, priorities, and reputed company. Work closely with the Change Management Advisor to integrate change and communication strategies into the integrated program roadmap, ensuring effective messaging that supports organizational buy-in and successful change adoption. Facilitate cross-functional meetings to maintain alignment on project deliverables and ensure stakeholder alignment on critical priorities. throughout the program lifecycle. Contribute to iterative planning and execution using Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum and SAFe), ensuring dependencies, priorities, and risks are actively managed. Support consistent application of Agile practices across programs to reputed company predictable delivery and effective value realization. Team Leadership and Development and reputed company Improvement: reputed company, coach, and reputed company a small project management & delivery team. Set clear objectives, performance expectations, and development plans for direct reports. Monitor workload distribution and reputed company resource risks proactively. Foster a culture of reputed company, collaboration, reputed company improvement, and innovation. Partner with the Change Management Advisor and Organizational Change Management working group to drive adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working. reputed company AI tools and automation to drive personal and team productivity across program delivery, reporting, planning, and communication. Qualifications and Experience: 8+ years of experience in program management reputed company reputed company, multi-stakeholder environments. Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple reputed company initiatives or portfolios. Minimum 5 years of experience directly managing Project Managers or similar roles. Program Management (PgM) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent. Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe, Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP). Expertise in project management tools such as reputed company, MS Planner, Jira, or other industry-leading platforms. Experience managing portfolio budgets in excess of $10M. Experience in managing strategic risks, program and project governance. Proven ability to reputed company and coordinate small, cross-functional teams and collaborate across multiple business units and workstreams to reputed company transformation goals. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and manage relationships with stakeholders at reputed company reputed company of the organization. Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management abilities, including experience presenting to executive steering committee (ESC). Active user of AI tools for productivity (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) with a reputed company of reputed company improvement and innovation. Experience managing external reputed company (e.g., Big 4). Preferred: Professional certification in Change Management (e.g., reputed company ADKAR). Proficiency and/or certification in Benefits Realization Management. Experience in managing large-scale transformation programs reputed company the technology sector or not-for-profit sector. Expertise in Lean Six reputed company or other process improvement methodologies. Experience stepping into a function during a period of organizational transition or leadership change. Familiarity with Power Platform tools (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps). What reputed company Looks Like In the first 90 days, the successful candidate will have: Taken ownership of transformation program delivery and established relationships with sponsors, external vendors, and key stakeholders Onboarded their team and set clear expectations for performance and collaboration Delivered at least one reporting cycle independently. Managed the integrated workstream visual, revised governance, revised roadmap, and product board Equity, diversity, and inclusion and reconciliation are strong commitments at reputed company: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion - reputed company. We reputed company a diverse workforce comprised of individuals with different lived experiences, reputed company, strengths, and backgrounds (e.g., gender identities and expressions, Indigeneity, race, abilities, sexual orientation, and other identities) are crucial to our reputed company. We welcome everyone to apply and encourage you to connect with us if you require accommodations during the recruitment process. Hiring reputed company: $90,975 - $115,235 Hiring and Salary reputed company Transparency Typically, employees are hired, transferred, or promoted reputed company the salary reputed company, specifically between the minimum and midpoint in the hiring reputed company. The salary reputed company refers to the reputed company of reputed company salaries for a given position, encompassing the minimum and maximum amounts. The midpoint of the reputed company is positioned approximately halfway between the minimum and maximum, indicating a fully reputed company employee with comprehensive job knowledge and experience for the role. Only in rare and exceptional circumstances, where a candidate has the experience, skills, and expertise that far exceed those required for the position, would we consider paying above the hiring reputed company for this role. Apply To This Job