Program Manager Strategic Initiatives

About the role

The Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Performance is responsible for planning and delivering assigned initiatives while enabling transparent, fact-based performance management. Working under the direction of the Associate Director, the role turns strategic priorities into clear plans, coordinates cross-functional execution, and provides leaders with accurate insight into progress, risks, decisions, and value.

Responsibilities

• Project delivery: Define scope, outcomes, workplans, timelines, governance, and ways of working for assigned initiatives; coordinate execution from initiation through closure.
• Governance and controls: Prepare agendas and materials, facilitate reviews, document decisions, maintain action logs, and ensure agreed actions are completed.
• Risk and dependency management: Maintain RAID logs, identify critical-path impacts, coordinate mitigations, and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
• Performance analytics and dashboarding: Actively build and maintain project and portfolio dashboards, executive scorecards, risk heat maps, and performance views.
• Reporting and insight: Translate complex delivery and performance data into concise narratives, trends, implications, and management actions.
• Data quality: Partner with data owners to define measures, validate inputs, resolve inconsistencies, and maintain confidence in reported information.
• Process improvement: Standardize and automate recurring reporting, status collection, governance, and workflow activities.
• Stakeholder partnership: Build effective relationships across a matrixed organization, clarify ownership, surface trade-offs, and promote timely decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Engineering, Business, Information Systems, Analytics, Project Management, or related field.
• 3 years experience in project management or business experience, PMO, program coordination.
• Experience supporting complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience developing project plans, governance materials, status reports, RAID logs, and executive presentations.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools, Ppt, Excel, Word, Power BI, Power Sheets, etc.
• PMP, Agile, Lean, Power BI or related certifications (preferred).
• 5+ years' experience in project management, PMO business analytics, program coordination, or a related role (preferred).

Benefits

• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in‑house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
• Variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits.
• Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.

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