Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Program Management
Princeton, NJ - USA
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Senior Manager Enterprise Program Management Enterprise Transformation Management Office (ETMO)
Location: Princeton NJ (Hybrid)
Reports To: Director Enterprise Program Management ETMO
Department: Enterprise Transformation Management Office (ETMO)
Position Summary:
The Senior Manager Enterprise Program Management (EPM) is responsible for the endtoend execution of Enterprise Priority (EP) programs and projects within the Enterprise Transformation Management Office (ETMO) operating model. This role translates enterprise strategy standards and governance into disciplined predictable delivery across a diverse portfolio of initiatives (e.g. Commercial Operations Quality Regulatory Supply Chain Business Process Optimization (BPO) efforts). The Senior Manager ensures strong crossfunctional alignment effective risk and dependency management and measurable value realization at the enterprise level.
This is a highimpact role suited for a highly motivated driven and proactive leader. ETMO operates across three interconnected pillarsGovernance EPM and BPOand functions with lean teams. As such this role requires an individual who is comfortable owning and driving critical enterprise initiatives leading through ambiguity and advancing a continuous improvement mindset and culture across the organization. Success in this role requires strong program management expertise the ability to drive timely decisionmaking proactively manage risks and effectively lead complex crossfunctional teams.
Key Responsibilities
Program Mobilization & Planning:
- Lead enterprise programs and projects by clearly defining scope outcomes and success metrics and establishing appropriate program/project governance and operating cadence.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans including critical path analysis and dependency mapping ensuring strong crossfunctional coordination and alignment.
- Establish and maintain core program management artifactsincluding RAID logs decision logs benefits realization plans and Lean Six Sigma initiative frameworksin alignment with ETMO standards and templates.
- Confirm business ownership and executive sponsorship clearly define roles and responsibilities (e.g. using DICE framework) and establish effective escalation and decisionmaking paths.
Execution Leadership & Delivery Discipline:
- Lead daytoday execution of complex crossfunctional enterprise programs driving accountability for milestones deliverables and clearly defined acceptance criteria.
- Demonstrate strong executive presence and influence effectively establishing a rhythm with and engaging senior stakeholders and communicating program status risks issues and recommendations with clarity credibility and authority.
- Apply and reinforce enterprise governance standards including 4Blockers portfolio bowler dashboards and readiness for monthly executive and ELTlevel reviews.
- Maintain decisionready program reporting proactively surfacing risks and issues with wellarticulated options tradeoffs and recommendations to enable timely leadership decisions.
- Ensure program execution adheres to applicable regulatory quality and compliance requirements partnering with functional experts as needed to mitigate risk and maintain enterprise standards.
Resource Capacity & Financial Stewardship:
- Partner with ETMO resourcing and functional leaders to translate enterprise demand into executable capacity plans securing the skills and roles required for successful program delivery.
- Develop and maintain resource and capacity plans across the program lifecycle continuously assessing utilization and adjusting staffing sequencing or scope to address changing priorities and constraints.
- Proactively identify and manage enterprise resource constraints and interdependencies recommending tradeoffs and mitigation strategies to maintain delivery commitments.
- Develop manage and track program budgets and forecasts ensuring financial discipline and transparency throughout execution.
- Support funding change requests and business cases by providing datadriven analysis impact assessments and clear recommendations to enable timely leadership decisions.
Risk Dependency & Scenario Management:
- Proactively identify and manage crossprogram risks interdependencies and systemic constraints leveraging scenario and whatif analyses to assess schedule resource and prioritization impacts.
- Lead the development and execution of mitigation and contingency strategies monitoring effectiveness and residual risk throughout the program lifecycle.
- Escalate enterpriselevel risks and constraints with databacked insights clearly articulated options and recommended tradeoffs to enable timely informed leadership decisions.
Change Management Adoption & Stabilization:
- Define and execute comprehensive change strategies including stakeholder mapping communications training approaches and adoption KPIs in close partnership with business and functional owners.
- Establish and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) process maps controls and performance dashboards ensuring clear handoff and longterm sustainment with accountable business ownership.
- Track postgolive stability and performance (e.g. error and rework rates cycle time throughput) and validate benefits realization at 30/60/90/180day intervals driving corrective actions as needed.
Project Health Assessments (Execution):
- Execute Project Health Assessments (PHAs) for all Enterprise Priority programs and projects using ETMOdefined scoring criteria conducting interviews and evidencebased reviews with delivery teams.
- Synthesize and communicate preliminary findings to Governance & Oversight to support enterpriselevel analysis insights and continuous improvement actions.
- Partner with project and program managers to address assessment findings through targeted action plans formal training interventions and ad hoc coaching to improve delivery performance.
PM Training Delivery & Coaching:
- Facilitate enterprise project and program management training sessions aligned to ETMO standards and governance tailoring delivery to audience needs and maturity levels.
- Provide one-on-one coaching to project and program managers reinforcing consistent adoption of enterprise standards templates tools and governance expectations during live execution.
BPO Enterprise Execution (High-Level):
- Lead execution of enterpriseprioritized business process optimization initiatives applying Lean Six Sigma methodologies and ETMO delivery standards to drive measurable improvements in quality cost cycle time and compliance.
- Guide crossfunctional teams through the full DMAIC lifecyclefrom problem definition and baseline measurement through rootcause analysis solution design/piloting control planning and sustainmentremediating process issues and locking in gains with clear operating controls and ownership.
- Apply Lean and continuous improvement principles where appropriate ensuring outcome measures related to quality cost cycle time and compliance are clearly defined and achieved.
- Support alignment across ETMO teams (Governance & Oversight EPM and BPO) by incorporating continuous feedback and execution insights to improve enterprise delivery effectiveness.
Tooling Data & Continuous Improvement:
- Leverage OnePlan and related enterprise platforms for planning resourcing time tracking and reporting driving high adoption and strong data quality across programs.
- Capture lessons learned and retrospective insights contributing to enterprise playbooks templates and the ETMO intranet knowledge base.
- Recommend tooling and reporting enhancements (e.g. OnePlan configurations dashboards) based on handson execution experience and evolving enterprise needs.
Workshops & Enablement:
- Lead Enterprise Priority (EP) workshops including kickoff planning dependency management risk mitigation and recovery sessions.
- Partner with the BPO team as appropriate to facilitate business process optimization workshops in support of prioritized enterprise initiatives.
Culture & Ways of Working:
- Model a strong bias for action transparency and outcomes fostering constructive challenge and factbased decisionmaking.
- Promote a culture that prioritizes safety quality compliance and continuous improvement across all delivery teams.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Business Engineering Operations or related field; advanced degree a plus.
- 5 years leading complex cross-functional programs/projects in matrixed and/or regulated environments.
- Demonstrated mastery of program management disciplines (e.g. planning risk dependency benefits) and executive communication.
- Proficiency with enterprise PPM/reporting tools (e.g. OnePlan MS Project Smartsheet Power BI Tableau).
- Working knowledge of process optimization (Lean/CI) and organizational change management.
Preferred Attributes
- Deep expertise in one or more key functional domains specifically in New Product Introduction (NPI) Quality Regulatory Lifecycle Management (LCM) with a proven track record of leading cross-functional initiatives in complex highly regulated environments.
- NPI: Experience leading end-to-end product introduction from development through commercialization including scale-up validation launch readiness and cross-functional coordination across R&D manufacturing quality regulatory and supply chain.
- Quality: Strong understanding of quality systems (e.g. GMP GLP GCP) with experience driving quality-focused initiatives such as audit/inspection readiness remediation programs CAPAs and root cause analysis to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.
- Regulatory: Experience supporting or leading regulatory strategy and execution including submissions approvals and interactions with health authorities (e.g. FDA EMA) with the ability to integrate regulatory requirements and timelines into overall program plans.
- LCM: Experience managing post-launch product lifecycle initiatives including label changes line extensions cost optimization and supply continuity balancing commercial priorities regulatory requirements and operational constraints.
- Enterpriseminded strategic integrator who translates vision into executable roadmaps sustained execution and measurable business outcomes.
- Proven ability to influence without authority building alignment across senior stakeholders through strong facilitation negotiation and executivelevel communication.
- Datadriven problem solver with the analytical rigor to diagnose complex issues and the storytelling skills to drive clarity and decisive action.
- Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset serving as a coach role model and force multiplier for project and program management capability.
- 5 years of management consulting experience strongly preferred.
- Professional certifications such as PMP PRINCE2 Agile/SAFe and/or Lean Six Sigma strongly preferred.
Work Location & Onsite Expectations
The Enterprise Transformation Management team prioritizes regular onsite collaboration to foster creativity and effective problem solving. For this role the team is prioritizing hiring in the Princeton area. Please only apply if you reside within 50 miles of this location or are willing to relocate.
Salary Pay Range:
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