Senior Manager Agile Program Manager

Sapient Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Management to lead enterprise-scale transformation programs spanning marketing, advertising, insights, and product innovation, with a focus on AI and GenAI. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery across multiple workstreams and senior client interactions.

You will build rigorous bottom-up plans, govern the program, manage risks and dependencies, and create concise executive updates.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex programs or large-scale transformations.
• Ability to develop integrated bottom-up plans across multiple workstreams.
• Strong executive communication and reporting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead program management across multiple transformation workstreams.
• Develop rigorous bottom-up program plans with milestones and owners.
• Drive delivery, risks, decisions, and dependencies to completion.
• Coordinate with strategy, change management, technology, and marketing teams.
• Governance, reporting, and PMO cadence establishment.
• Translate program information into concise senior-level updates.
• Create polished PowerPoint presentations for leadership.
• Partner with the Program Director while owning day-to-day leadership.
• Support AI/GenAI transformation initiatives and cross-functional alignment.

Skills

Program management

Executive communication

Risk & dependency management

Bottom-up planning

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Storytelling

Ambiguity handling

Negotiation

Analytics

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Management to play a leadership role within a complex, enterprise-scale transformation program focused on reimagining marketing, advertising, insights, campaign orchestration, product innovation, and related business processes through AI and GenAI.

This individual will operate as a senior leader within the program management function, bringing structure, rigor, accountability, and proactive leadership across multiple interconnected workstreams. The role requires someone who can move comfortably between detailed program execution and senior client communication, creating clarity across a highly complex transformation environment.

Your Impact:

• Lead program management activities across one or more complex transformation workstreams.
• Establish and maintain rigorous, detailed bottom-up program plans covering milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, owners and deliverables.
• Take accountability for assigned workstreams and proactively drive activities to completion.
• Coordinate across strategy, change management, technology, marketing, media and other transformation teams.
• Manage dependencies across Publicis Sapient teams, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed delivery teams.
• Establish effective governance, reporting and operating cadences as the broader PMO structure evolves.
• Anticipate delivery risks and identify issues before they become escalations.
• Drive disciplined follow-up on actions, decisions, dependencies and commitments.
• Translate complex program information into concise, senior-level communications and presentations.
• Develop polished PowerPoint presentations and program updates for senior client and internal leadership.
• Partner effectively with the Program Director while independently owning significant portions of day-to-day program leadership.
• Support transformation initiatives involving marketing strategy and insights, campaign orchestration, content and asset development, media, and product innovation.
• Help connect individual transformation initiatives into an integrated program and ensure progress can be measured against intended business outcomes.
• Bring structure to areas where requirements, processes and delivery models continue to evolve.
• Provide leadership across geographically distributed teams and create clear accountability among workstream owners.
• Maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders and serve as a trusted program management partner.

Qualifications

Your Skills & Experience:

• Significant experience leading complex programs, transformations or large-scale consulting engagements.
• Strong hands-on program management capability with the ability to operate at both the strategic and highly detailed execution levels.
• Demonstrated ability to create and manage integrated bottom-up plans across multiple workstreams.
• Strong experience managing risks, dependencies, milestones, decisions and executive-level reporting.
• Experience leading programs involving internal teams, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed teams.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation and storytelling skills.
• Advanced PowerPoint capabilities with experience developing senior client and executive-facing materials.
• Ability to create structure and momentum in ambiguous or rapidly evolving programs.
• Strong judgment with demonstrated ability to identify risks, elevate appropriately and drive issues through resolution.
• Comfortable communicating with senior business and technology leaders.
• Strong analytical, negotiation and conflict-resolution capabilities.

Set Yourself Apart With

• Experience leading AI or Generative AI transformation programs.
• Experience across marketing, advertising, media or consumer-facing transformation.
• Understanding of marketing processes such as consumer insights, strategy development, campaign planning and orchestration, content production and measurement.
• Experience integrating multiple technology platforms, teams and processes into an interconnected operating ecosystem.
• Experience leading transformation within large consumer products organizations.
• Experience managing geographically distributed or offshore teams.
• Experience working within highly complex multi-partner or multi-agency environments.

Additional Information

Salary Range: $130,000 - $210,000

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.

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