Senior Program Manager

Cencora; United States; Remote; USD 119,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision care

Backup dependent care

Adoption assistance

Infertility coverage

Family building support

Behavioral health solutions

Paid parental leave

Paid caregiver leave

Training programs

Mentorship programs

Job summary

Cencora is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead a major workstream within a large transformation program. You will partner with business, IT, and external partners to ensure milestones, risks, and dependencies are managed while delivering high-quality results.

You will develop and maintain detailed plans, coordinate across functions, and drive accountability for outcomes in a complex, regulated environment. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and governance skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 8+ years of program or project management experience, including leadership of complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Experience leading a major workstream within a large enterprise-wide transformation, ERP transformation, or similarly complex strategic program
• Strong experience in integrated planning, risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder coordination
• Experience working across business and technology teams in a matrixed environment
• Deep expertise in large scale Program budget management
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, drive execution, and influence without direct authority
• Strong written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills

Responsibilities

• Lead an assigned workstream within the broader enterprise-wide transformation program
• Own day-to-day planning, coordination, execution oversight, and delivery tracking for the workstream
• Ensure workstream objectives, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies are clearly defined and actively managed
• Drive accountability across team members and stakeholders to achieve committed outcomes
• Develop and maintain detailed workstream plans, timelines, milestones, and action logs
• Coordinate activities across business, IT, functional teams, and external implementation partners
• Monitor progress against plan and proactively identify risks, issues, and delivery gaps
• Drive timely resolution of blockers and escalate matters as appropriate
• Identify, track, and manage workstream risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
• Partner with other workstream leads to address cross-functional impacts and integration points
• Escalate critical risks and decisions to the Program Lead with recommended actions
• Prepare and provide regular status updates on workstream progress, milestones, risks, issues, and decisions
• Support program governance forums by ensuring timely, accurate, and transparent reporting
• Maintain documentation, decision logs, action items, and key workstream artifacts
• Build strong relationships with business, IT, and functional stakeholders across the assigned workstream
• Partner with implementation teams and vendors to align on scope, deliverables, and timelines
• Facilitate discussions, drive alignment, and support decision-making across stakeholders
• Partner with business leads and change partners to support readiness, process alignment, and adoption activities
• Help ensure the workstream is not only delivered from a technical perspective but is also operationally ready for implementation
• Reinforce focus on business outcomes, user impact, and sustainable adoption
• Drive disciplined execution, issue resolution, and follow-through across the workstream
• Ensure alignment with overall program governance, standards, templates, and reporting expectations
• Support integrated planning and coordination with the broader transformation office and program leadership team
• Lead workstream budget management, including actuals, forecast, accruals, and variance analysis.
• Partner with Finance and PMO to maintain accurate financial reporting and forecast updates aligned to scope, resources, and delivery plans.
• Drive disciplined, repeatable financial management processes aligned with program governance and financial best practices.
• Identify, communicate, and help mitigate budget risks, forecast changes, and cost impacts across the workstream.
• Ensure financial controls and documentation are audit-ready and able to withstand internal and external audit scrutiny.

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Planning and scheduling

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere.

Job Details

Position Summary:

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading a major workstream within a large, complex enterprise-wide transformation program. Reporting to the Sr. Director/Program Lead, this role is accountable for the day-to-day leadership, planning, coordination, execution oversight, and delivery management of an assigned workstream.

The Senior Program Manager will work closely with business, IT, functional leaders, and implementation partners to ensure the workstream is aligned to overall program objectives, integrated with related workstreams, and delivered on time and with quality. This role requires strong leadership, structure, and cross-functional coordination in a highly complex environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Workstream Leadership

• Lead an assigned workstream within the broader enterprise-wide transformation program
• Own day-to-day planning, coordination, execution oversight, and delivery tracking for the workstream
• Ensure workstream objectives, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies are clearly defined and actively managed
• Drive accountability across team members and stakeholders to achieve committed outcomes

Planning and Execution

• Develop and maintain detailed workstream plans, timelines, milestones, and action logs
• Coordinate activities across business, IT, functional teams, and external implementation partners
• Monitor progress against plan and proactively identify risks, issues, and delivery gaps
• Drive timely resolution of blockers and escalate matters as appropriate

Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Identify, track, and manage workstream risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
• Partner with other workstream leads to address cross-functional impacts and integration points
• Escalate critical risks and decisions to the Program Lead with recommended actions

Governance and Reporting

• Prepare and provide regular status updates on workstream progress, milestones, risks, issues, and decisions
• Support program governance forums by ensuring timely, accurate, and transparent reporting
• Maintain documentation, decision logs, action items, and key workstream artifacts

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with business, IT, and functional stakeholders across the assigned workstream
• Partner with implementation teams and vendors to align on scope, deliverables, and timelines
• Facilitate discussions, drive alignment, and support decision-making across stakeholders

Business Readiness and Adoption

• Partner with business leads and change partners to support readiness, process alignment, and adoption activities
• Help ensure the workstream is not only delivered from a technical perspective but is also operationally ready for implementation
• Reinforce focus on business outcomes, user impact, and sustainable adoption

Quality and Delivery Discipline

• Drive disciplined execution, issue resolution, and follow-through across the workstream
• Ensure alignment with overall program governance, standards, templates, and reporting expectations
• Support integrated planning and coordination with the broader transformation office and program leadership team

Financials/ Budget management

• Lead workstream budget management, including actuals, forecast, accruals, and variance analysis.
• Partner with Finance and PMO to maintain accurate financial reporting and forecast updates aligned to scope, resources, and delivery plans.
• Drive disciplined, repeatable financial management processes aligned with program governance and financial best practices.
• Identify, communicate, and help mitigate budget risks, forecast changes, and cost impacts across the workstream.
• Ensure financial controls and documentation are audit-ready and able to withstand internal and external audit scrutiny.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 8+ years of program or project management experience, including leadership of complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Experience leading a major workstream within a large enterprise-wide transformation, ERP transformation, or similarly complex strategic program
• Strong experience in integrated planning, risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder coordination
• Experience working across business and technology teams in a matrixed environment
• Deep expertise in large scale Program budget management
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, drive execution, and influence without direct authority
• Strong written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale ERP or enterprise transformation programs
• Experience working with system integrators and third-party implementation partners
• Familiarity with change management, business readiness, and adoption planning
• PMP, Agile, or related certifications preferred
• Experience in complex, highly regulated, or global environments is a plus

Key Competencies

• Program and workstream leadership
• Planning and execution management
• Cross-functional coordination
• Risk and issue management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Problem-solving and decision support
• Communication and reporting
• Accountability and follow-through

Success in This Role

Success in this role will be demonstrated through strong leadership of the assigned workstream, timely delivery of milestones and deliverables, proactive management of risks and dependencies, effective coordination across stakeholders, and clear contribution to the broader transformation program’s objectives and outcomes.

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Full time

Salary Range*

$119,100 - 186,560

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [e-mail]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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