Senior Program Manager — Strategic Network Initiatives

Ritter Communications

Little Rock (AR)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid leave

Job summary

Ritter Communications, headquartered in Jonesboro, Arkansas, seeks a Senior Program Manager to coordinate strategic Network Technology initiatives across Engineering, Operations, IT, and other departments. You will create integrated schedules, drive governance processes, and deliver executive-ready reporting to ensure successful delivery of high-priority projects.

The role requires 7+ years of leadership in large, cross-functional programs, strong stakeholder management, and experience with PM

Qualifications

7+ years of project, program, operations, engineering, or related leadership experience.
Experience coordinating large, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and business units.
Experience developing executive reporting, governance processes, program dashboards, and project controls; experience in matrixed organizations.

Responsibilities

Coordinates strategic Network Technology initiatives across multiple teams, departments, vendors, and stakeholders.
Develops integrated project/program schedules combining deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and timelines.
Facilitates governance processes: steering committees, reviews, updates, decisions, issue escalation; maintains executive dashboards.
Consolidates information into consistent executive-level reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and status updates.
Monitors program health by identifying dependencies, resource conflicts, risks, and implementation challenges.
Partners with Engineering, Operations, IT, Finance, Product, Construction, and other departments for alignment.
Tracks actions, decisions, assumptions, risks, and issues; ensures follow-through to resolution.
Supports planning activities: charters, governance structures, risk registers, and reporting frameworks.
Provides leadership with visibility into performance, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
Identifies opportunities to improve governance, reporting, and delivery across Network Technology.
Conducts project closeouts and lessons learned reviews; supports continuous improvement.
Travel as required to project sites, vendor locations, and company facilities.