Program Manager, Enterprise Growth & Capital Programs

Description

The company is a contract partner for large brands, providing engineering, supply chain and manufacturing services across more than 100 sites worldwide, with 60 years in the industry.

This role runs enterprise growth programs from requirements through site launch and handover to operations, including new site builds, expansions and facilities readiness for committed product launch dates.

You work back from target launch dates and own each program as the single point of accountability, applying PMI standards across several complex programs at once.

Responsibilities

• Gather and clarify project requirements and customer needs, both internal and external, and turn them into workable plans.
• Work with customers and business units from requirements gathering through product acceptance and site launch.
• Set milestones, goals and objectives with input from every functional stakeholder so program teams stay aligned to customer and business needs.
• Propose practical, inventive solutions to critical customer, user and business requirements.
• Build and manage integrated program plans under PMI standards, covering scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk and change control.
• Work with functional project managers and coordinators to review and merge detailed schedules.
• Drive tasks to completion against approved schedules and baselines.
• Own overall project success, balancing cost, schedule, scope and quality against enterprise requirements.
• Build, lead and motivate cross-functional teams across facilities and engineering, manufacturing and operations, IT and systems, supply chain and procurement, finance, legal, human resources, and business units and commercial.
• Act as the main contact for customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsors.
• Explain program goals in terms of the wider business strategy.
• Coach and support teams through complex, high-pressure delivery.
• Handle financial management and cost analysis, including capital expenditure requests (CERs), resource allocation, and travel, training and other program costs.
• Forecast project budgets and labor needs for current and future site requirements.
• Manage resource capacity and time tracking across enterprise programs.
• Define, monitor and manage project KPIs to keep work within scope, time, cost and quality limits.
• Build integrated risk analyses with practical mitigation plans, spot problem areas early and switch to alternative solutions when needed.
• Collect, analyze and summarize program status against performance baselines, and report status, issues, outcomes and solutions to leadership.
• Give leaders clear insight into risks, opportunities and areas to improve.
• Find and carry out cost-reduction opportunities through process and system changes.
• Drive continuous improvement through metrics, trend analysis and sharing best practices across sites and teams.
• Communicate clearly and concisely through a range of channels, and tailor messages to different stakeholder groups.
• Work with communications teams, stakeholders and leadership to measure program effectiveness and business impact.
• Design and run training on enterprise initiatives and program implementation.
• Anticipate customer needs, resolve issues quickly, and coach others through complex decisions.
• Follow all company security policies, procedures and governance requirements, and take on other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• At least 5 years leading complex, cross-functional, enterprise-level programs.
• Proven record delivering facilities-driven or capital-intensive work such as site builds, expansions and infrastructure programs.
• Ability to turn requirements into workable plans and drive delivery across matrixed teams.
• Demonstrated command of PMI standards and methods across the full project lifecycle.
• Experience supporting product launches or large-scale growth initiatives.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is preferred.

Conditions

The pay range is $100,100 to $180,200. The actual offer depends on qualifications and experience, geographic location, education, external market data, and internal equity.

The anticipated close date for this requisition is December 04, 2026.

Equal opportunity: hiring decisions are made without regard to protected characteristics.

Benefits

• Eligible for a performance-based short-term incentive as part of total rewards.
• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Paid time off accruing at 3.07 hours during the first year of employment.
• 4 weeks of paid parental leave.
• In 2027, 11 company-paid holidays: 9 fixed and 2 optional floating, subject to yearly change.
• 401(k) retirement plan and employee stock purchase plan.