Senior Agile Program Manager - Retail Transformation

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

Job summary

Publicis Sapient seeks a Manager, Agile Program Management to partner with clients on major digital business or engineering transformations. You will lead planning, estimation, and delivery within a cross-functional, globally distributed team, shaping team structure, delivery approaches, and client outcomes.

You will drive agile delivery, stakeholder alignment, and program governance to ensure value delivery. Salary range provided; travel is required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading agile delivery programs (Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid) guiding multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to influence stakeholders without formal authority to drive outcomes.
• Experience contributing to sales proposals, shaping delivery approach, team structure and cost estimates.

Responsibilities

• Plan, document, and implement optimal team structures to deliver high-quality work.
• Lead teams to deliver customer experience and engineering solutions with measurable business value.
• Identify and realize business outcomes using suitable project management methods and tools.
• Support clients’ objectives delivering experience management, ecommerce, cloud, and microservices platforms.
• Define and measure customer value delivered at milestones with a consultative approach.
• Organize ongoing planning sessions to identify risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Optimize delivery with risk management insights and mitigation strategies.
• Guide senior stakeholders on program delivery methods and ceremonies to streamline workflows.
• Articulate and manage engagement metrics to support account health and planning.

Skills

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Team collaboration

Sales proposals & budgeting

Travel readiness

Program governance

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Office

Job description

Publicis Sapient seeks a Manager, Agile Program Management to partner with clients on major digital business or engineering transformations. You will lead planning, estimation, and delivery within a cross-functional, globally distributed team, shaping team structure, delivery approaches, and client outcomes.

You will drive agile delivery, stakeholder alignment, and program governance to ensure value delivery. Salary range provided; travel is required.