Senior Agile Program Manager

Publicis Groupe; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient in Chicago seeks a Manager, Agile Program Management to lead digital transformation programs. You will partner with clients and a global, cross-functional team to plan, estimate, and deliver complex projects, spanning experience, data, cloud and microservice platforms.

You will drive outcomes, manage risks, and mentor internal and external stakeholders, ensuring timely, high-quality results across multiple workstreams. A willingness to travel is required.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization and influence outcomes.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and MS Office.
• Experience with Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) and hybrid delivery models.
• Proven track record leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex programs.
• Willingness to travel frequently and adapt to client environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, document, and implement optimal team structures for delivery success.
• Lead teams to deliver customer experience and engineering solutions that drive business value.
• Identify and realize business outcomes using suitable project management approaches and tools.
• Support clients’ objectives by delivering experience, data, cloud and microservice solutions.
• Organize regular planning sessions to identify risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams.
• Guide senior stakeholders on program delivery methods, ceremonies, and governance.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Digital transformation

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Tools

Jira

Confluence

MS Office

Job description

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

As a Manager, Agile Program Management at Publicis Sapient, you will partner with clients undertaking major digital business or engineering transformation engagements. You will work within a cross-functional, globally distributed team to lead the planning, estimation, and delivery of client projects and programs.

Your Impact

• Retail industry experience
• Plan, document, and implement the optimal team structure (roles, people, expertise) to ensure high-quality delivery, exceeding client expectations and achieving established goals
• Lead teams to successfully deliver customer experience and engineering solutions leading to client business value
• Identify and realize business outcomes through the use of the most suitable and effective project management approach, methods, processes, and tools to ensure a high degree of delivery and solution quality
• Support clients’ business objectives by delivering experience and engineering solutions, including experience management, ecommerce, customer data, cloud, and microservice platforms
• Enact lasting changes to the client’s ways of working by utilizing a consultative approach that focuses on defining and measuring customer value delivered at each milestone
• Organize and lead ongoing team planning sessions to identify key risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams
• Optimize delivery within a project or program through insights and mitigation strategies for project risk management
• Guide internal leaders and external senior stakeholders on program delivery methods ceremonies and protocols to streamline and structure workflow to deliver timely results
• Articulate and manage engagement commercial metrics including client outcomes, leakage, burn rate, revenue and margins, etc. to support account health and account-level planning within the industry vertical

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience

• Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with all levels of the organization to achieve broader insights into managing work streams and outcomes
• Capable of earning trust and influencing stakeholders without formal authority to required results
• Proficient with collaboration tools including Atlassian Jira and Confluence, and Microsoft Office applications
• Flexible, collaborative, and able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously to maintain teamwork and optimal project flow
• Experience managing and contributing to sales proposals by collaborating and negotiating with multi-disciplinary teams to shape a cohesive delivery approach, team shape, and cost estimates to deliver transformative value driven proposals
• Experience working with Agile delivery methods like Scrum and Kanban, waterfall and hybrid systems
• Experience leading teams to implement digital technologies such as atomic and responsive design, experience management platforms, cloud platforms, DevOps, AI and Data Platforms
• Ability to travel frequently

Additional information

Salary Range: $120,000 - $160,000

The range shown represents a grouping of ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail] or you may call us at [phone].