Senior Program Manager

Position Summary

The Senior Program Manager is a designated Program Management role responsible for integrating and leading related Global Operations projects, workstreams, and enabling activities to achieve strategic outcomes and benefits that cannot be realized through independent project management. This role translates strategic objectives into an integrated program roadmap and aligns scope, milestones, resources, risks, governance, change management activities, and benefits realization across the program portfolio.

The Senior Program Manager operates as a senior individual contributor and program delivery leader, partnering with executive sponsors, business leaders, functional stakeholders, project teams, and, where applicable, Project Managers. The role is responsible for resolving cross-project dependencies, managing competing priorities, enabling program-level decision making, and maintaining visibility throughout the program lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Program Strategy, Integration & Delivery

• Translate strategic objectives into an integrated program roadmap, governance model, operating cadence, success measures, and desired outcomes.
• Lead multiple related projects, workstreams, and enabling activities as a coordinated program through implementation and benefits realization.
• Align scope, plans, milestones, resources, assumptions, dependencies, and deliverables across program components.
• Resolve cross-project conflicts and competing priorities while recommending sequencing, resourcing, and delivery trade-offs.
• Maintain visibility into program health, critical paths, dependencies, readiness activities, key decisions, and outcomes.
• Own a portfolio of Global Operations initiatives, including: Manufacturing Network Footprint Optimization, Product and Process Transfers, Mergers & Acquisitions Integration, Sustaining Engineering Programs, Supply Chain Continuity & Resiliency, Cost Improvement Initiatives.

Executive Stakeholder & Governance Leadership

• Align executive sponsors, business leaders, program stakeholders, and component leads around shared objectives and governance expectations.
• Present decision-ready recommendations, risks, trade-offs, and enterprise impacts in executive governance forums.
• Establish escalation pathways and drive timely resolution of strategic issues and organizational barriers.
• Maintain stakeholder alignment throughout complex, multi-phase programs.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the assigned Global Operations portfolio and provide updates to the Operations Leadership Team (OLT) and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) as needed.

Benefits, Financial & Resource Integration

• Consolidate project budgets, forecasts, resource requirements, and investment impacts into a program-level view.
• Evaluate funding, capacity, resource allocation, risk, and value trade-offs.
• Partner with Operations Finance to develop business cases and financial analyses, including NPV, IRR, and payback calculations.
• Coordinate with functional leaders to obtain CapEx and OpEx estimates required for investment decisions.
• Partner with business owners to define, track, govern, and transition benefit realization metrics.
• Ensure program performance supports enterprise priorities and strategic objectives.

Program Risk, Dependency & Compliance Management

• Identify and manage cross-functional risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints.
• Manage program critical paths and implement effective mitigation strategies.
• Lead contingency planning, scenario analysis, and recovery planning efforts.
• Ensure compliance with PMO standards, quality requirements, regulatory expectations, and functional controls.
• Escalate program risks with recommended actions and clearly defined business impacts.

Methodology, Organizational Change & Adoption

• Align predictive, Agile, hybrid, and functional delivery methodologies under a common governance framework.
• Integrate communication, training, readiness, adoption, stabilization, and sustainment plans.
• Coordinate organizational impacts across functions, business units, geographies, and stakeholder groups.
• Adapt program direction as business priorities, environmental factors, or organizational constraints evolve.

Program Leadership & Capability Development

• Provide matrix leadership to project teams, component leads, and Project Managers while maintaining functional accountability.
• Coach and mentor Project Managers and delivery leaders.
• Promote best practices, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across the project and program management community.
• Model Integra values through collaboration, accountability, strategic thinking, integrity, and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Life Sciences, Business, or a related technical field required.

Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in project management, program management, operations, consulting, transformation, or related leadership roles. Experience within medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other highly regulated industries. Proven track record managing complex, cross-functional programs consisting of multiple related projects and stakeholders. Demonstrated success leading executive stakeholders through governance, organizational change, dependency management, and business-critical decisions. Experience providing matrix leadership to project teams and cross-functional organizations.

Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent advanced project management credential required.

Core Competencies

• Program integration and roadmap development
• Program governance and portfolio management
• Dependency management and scenario planning
• Executive communication and stakeholder influence
• Strategic planning and decision facilitation
• Financial analysis and business case development
• Benefits realization management
• Risk management and mitigation planning
• Organizational change leadership
• Cross-functional collaboration and matrix leadership
• PM/PPM tools, reporting systems, analytics, and collaboration platforms