Senior Enterprise Program Leader

EnerSys; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

EnerSys is seeking a Program Manager to serve as a senior leader within the Project Management Office, translating strategy into measurable enterprise outcomes. You will drive cross-functional initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring financial, operational, customer, compliance, and strategic value realization.

The role requires strategic thinking, financial literacy, and the ability to influence senior leaders without authority, with responsibility for revenue growth,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive leadership experience in program management, operations, engineering, supply chain, finance, business management, product development, transformation, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business, financial, operational, customer, or compliance impact.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to evaluate operational, financial, technical, commercial, and organizational tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated financial literacy, including experience interpreting business cases, financial assumptions, investment decisions, and value realization metrics.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience developing executive-level recommendations, decision materials, and business reviews supported by data and sound judgment.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, competing priorities, organizational resistance, and constrained resources.
• Strong executive communication, analytical thinking, decision-making, and accountability-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-level initiatives that translate business strategy into measurable financial, operational, customer, compliance, and strategic outcomes.
• Convert executive priorities into clear execution strategies, decision paths, operating plans, and cross-functional commitments.
• Drive alignment across functions and senior stakeholders where priorities, resources, incentives, or constraints conflict.
• Advise leaders on risks, opportunities, tradeoffs, and recommended courses of action using sound business judgment.
• Develop and evaluate business cases supporting investment decisions, prioritization, resource allocation, and value realization.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to assess revenue, margin, cost, cash, risk, and operational impacts.
• Monitor initiative performance against expected business outcomes, financial assumptions, and operating commitments.
• Identify gaps between planned and realized value and drive corrective action with accountable owners.
• Lead complex, cross-functional programs from concept through implementation, operational adoption, and benefit realization.
• Own program-level outcomes, ensuring execution activities remain aligned to business priorities and measurable value.
• Manage dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, resources, and escalation paths across functions.
• Establish operating rhythms that create transparency, accountability, decision velocity, and disciplined follow-through.
• Influence senior leaders and stakeholders without direct authority to drive decisions and remove barriers.
• Facilitate executive reviews focused on decisions, tradeoffs, risks, value realization, and required actions.
• Build trusted relationships across functions to accelerate alignment, ownership, and execution.
• Present executive-level recommendations supported by data, analysis, financial understanding, and business judgment.
• Lead organizational change required to embed new processes, products, systems, capabilities, or operating models.
• Drive adoption, sustainment, and accountability after implementation to ensure intended business value is realized.
• Improve execution speed, organizational effectiveness, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Reinforce a culture of ownership, transparency, accountability, and results.

Skills

Executive communication

Strategic judgment

Cross-functional leadership

Financial literacy

Decision making

Influence without authority

Analytical thinking

Ownership mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PMP

PgMP

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

EnerSys is seeking a Program Manager to serve as a senior leader within the Project Management Office, translating strategy into measurable enterprise outcomes. You will drive cross-functional initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring financial, operational, customer, compliance, and strategic value realization.

The role requires strategic thinking, financial literacy, and the ability to influence senior leaders without authority, with responsibility for revenue growth,