Description

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end governance and execution oversight across multiple programs, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy, business priorities, and delivery commitments.

• Develop and maintain integrated program roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision logs across all assigned programs.

• Partner with project managers, delivery leads, product owners, technology teams, operations teams, and business stakeholders to drive coordinated execution.

• Establish and manage program governance forums, including steering committees, leadership reviews, status reporting, and escalation mechanisms.

• Monitor program performance against scope, schedule, cost, quality, benefits, and key performance indicators.

• Identify cross-program dependencies, delivery risks, resource constraints, and blockers; drive mitigation plans and timely escalations.

• Ensure consistent standards for planning, reporting, risk management, change management, and delivery assurance across programs.

• Manage stakeholder communication by providing clear executive updates, dashboards, summaries, and decision points.

• Support budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, vendor coordination, and financial tracking where applicable.

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying process gaps, improving delivery predictability, and promoting best practices across teams.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Management, or a related field; MBA or equivalent advanced qualification preferred.

• 10+ years of overall experience with significant exposure to program management, project delivery, consulting, technology delivery, or business transformation.

• Proven experience managing multiple programs or large-scale initiatives involving cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

• Strong understanding of project and program management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, hybrid delivery models, and governance frameworks.

• Experience in managing executive stakeholders, client relationships, delivery reviews, and complex escalations.

• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum Master, or equivalent certification preferred.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Strategic planning and execution discipline

• Strong leadership and cross-functional team coordination

• Executive communication and stakeholder management

• Risk, issue, dependency, and escalation management

• Program governance, reporting, and delivery assurance

• Financial, resource, and capacity planning awareness

• Problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict resolution

• Ability to manage ambiguity and drive outcomes in complex environments

• Proficiency with tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration platforms

Success Measures

• Programs are delivered in alignment with approved scope, timelines, quality standards, and business objectives.

• Risks, issues, and dependencies are proactively identified, governed, and resolved with minimal business disruption.

• Stakeholders have clear visibility into program progress, decisions, escalations, and outcomes.

• Delivery teams operate with consistent governance, accountability, and execution discipline.

• Program outcomes contribute measurable value to business performance, customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, or transformation goals.

Preferred Attributes

• Ability to influence without direct authority across matrixed organizations.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect delivery execution to strategic outcomes.

• Comfort working with senior leadership, client stakeholders, and distributed delivery teams.

• High attention to detail while maintaining a broad view of program-level priorities and risks.

• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on delivery excellence and operational maturity.