Transformation PMO Lead - Agile Program Manager

Publicis Groupe; New York, Irving (NY, TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Manager, Program Management to join the PMO supporting a large-scale business and technology transformation. This highly hands-on role focuses on creating structure, maintaining detailed plans, coordinating stakeholders, and driving actions to completion.

The Manager will own day-to-day management of an assigned program or workstream, collaborating with senior leadership, client stakeholders, and globally distributed teams to ensure successful delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on project or program management experience.
• Experience managing complex projects or workstreams within larger transformation programs.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain detailed delivery plans.
• Strong organization and follow-through with close attention to detail.
• Experience tracking risks, dependencies, decisions, deliverables and actions.
• Strong client-facing written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong PowerPoint and presentation-development capabilities.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Ability to operate effectively when requirements or program structures are evolving.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort escalating issues when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day program management of an assigned transformation workstream.
• Build, maintain and actively manage detailed bottom-up project and program plans.
• Track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies and actions.
• Ensure commitments have clear owners and proactively follow up through completion.
• Coordinate activities across internal teams, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed delivery teams.
• Identify program risks and dependencies early and elevate issues appropriately.
• Prepare accurate, concise status reporting for program leadership and client stakeholders.
• Support governance meetings, working sessions and executive reviews.
• Create clear, polished PowerPoint presentations that translate detailed program information into effective client communications.
• Work across multiple program areas while maintaining visibility into interconnected dependencies.
• Help establish and continuously improve PMO processes, tools and working practices.
• Support program leadership with planning, resource coordination and execution.
• Take ownership of assigned work rather than relying on senior leadership to drive routine follow-up.
• Maintain the level of execution rigor required for a complex, high-visibility transformation.

Skills

Program management

Delivery planning

Stakeholder coordination

Client-facing communication

PowerPoint & presentations

Distributed teams

Risk & dependency management

PMO processes

Planning & resource coordination

Execution discipline

Job description

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Manager, Program Management to join the PMO supporting a large-scale business and technology transformation. This highly hands-on role focuses on creating structure, maintaining detailed plans, coordinating stakeholders, and driving actions to completion.

The Manager will own day-to-day management of an assigned program or workstream, collaborating with senior leadership, client stakeholders, and globally distributed teams to ensure successful delivery.