Senior Program Manager

myhrabc; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead a major workstream within a large enterprise-wide transformation. You will report to the Sr.

Director/Program Lead and drive planning, coordination, execution oversight, and delivery tracking with business, IT, and external partners to ensure timely, high-quality results. You will manage risks, dependencies, and governance, partner across functions, and ensure readiness and adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience leading a major workstream within a large enterprise-wide transformation.
• 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 a broad 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 managed.
• Drive accountability across team members and stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Develop and maintain detailed workstream plans, timelines, milestones, and action logs.
• Coordinate activities across business, IT, functional teams, and external partners.
• Monitor progress and identify risks, issues, and delivery gaps; resolve blockers.
• Escalate critical risks and decisions with recommended actions.
• Prepare regular status updates and support governance forums with accurate reporting.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Details

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.

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 escalated 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 an 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
• Experien