Project Manager Description - Program Manager
Commercial Strategy & Transformation | Intermediate Level
About the Role
The Commercial Strategy & Transformation team is looking for a highly organized, resourceful, and collaborative Program Manager to support a portfolio of strategic, transformation, and operational initiatives. In this role, you will help translate priorities into action by managing small to medium scale projects and defined workstreams, coordinating cross functional stakeholders, developing project plans and leadership materials, tracking deliverables, and helping drive projects through completion. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across a variety of initiatives, analyzing information, bringing structure to moderately complex problems, and exercising independent judgment within established practices and guidelines. This is a hands on role for someone who enjoys solving problems, creating structure, collaborating across teams, and turning ideas into actionable plans.
Key Responsibilities
Program & Project Management
- Manage small to medium scale projects and defined workstreams from planning through execution.
- Translate business priorities into clear project plans, milestones, deliverables, owners, and next steps.
- Track progress against milestones, schedules, budgets, and other key performance indicators.
- Identify project risks, dependencies, and roadblocks and work with stakeholders to address them.
- Exercise independent judgment within established practices and procedures to determine appropriate actions.
- Maintain accurate project documentation and ensure decisions, actions, and commitments are captured and followed through.
- Support project financial management, including budget tracking, forecasting, and monitoring project related expenses when applicable.
Cross Functional Coordination
- Partner with teams across the organization to gather information, coordinate deliverables, and maintain alignment.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders across different functions and levels.
- Facilitate project meetings and working sessions with clear objectives, outcomes, owners, and next steps.
- Coordinate internal and external resources supporting project delivery.
- Follow up with stakeholders to maintain momentum and ensure commitments are completed.
- Escalate risks, issues, or decisions appropriately when additional leadership direction is required.
Analysis & Content Development
- Gather, organize, and analyze information from multiple sources to support project execution and decision making.
- Develop conclusions and recommendations based on research, data analysis, and stakeholder input.
- Create presentations, executive summaries, project updates, reports, briefing materials, and other communications.
- Translate complex or incomplete information into clear, concise, and actionable content.
- Support the development of recommendations for business and transformation initiatives.
- Document and share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned across the team.
Leadership & Team Support
- Prepare materials for leadership discussions, project reviews, and decision points.
- Provide visibility into project status, key milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions needed.
- Coordinate follow through on actions and priorities that emerge from leadership discussions.
- Support planning and execution of workshops, strategy sessions, team activities, and other priority initiatives.
- Contribute analysis and recommendations while working with more senior team members on broader strategic direction.
- Step into new projects and workstreams as priorities evolve.
Operational Excellence
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, project execution, and team ways of working.
- Develop and maintain repeatable templates, tools, trackers, and project documentation.
- Support change management activities associated with new initiatives or processes.
- Apply established project management methods while adapting appropriately to the needs of individual projects.
- Share knowledge and lessons learned to improve future project execution.
Education & Experience
- Four year or graduate degree in Business Administration or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience or demonstrated competence.
- Typically 2 to 4 years of relevant work experience, preferably in program management, project management, strategy, business operations, transformation, or a related field.
- Experience working on cross functional projects in a complex or matrixed organization is preferred.
- Experience supporting global projects or teams is a plus.
Knowledge & Skills The successful candidate should bring experience or demonstrated capability in several of the following areas:
- Project and program management
- Project planning and implementation
- Project schedules and milestone management
- Risk and issue management
- Data analysis
- Key performance indicators and reporting
- Process improvement
- Change management
- Project documentation
- Financial tracking and forecasting
- Stakeholder management
- Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Project or similar project management tools
- Agile methodologies
- Business analysis
- Executive and leadership communications
Core Capabilities
Effective Communication Communicates clearly and effectively with stakeholders and translates information into concise, actionable messages.
Results Orientation Maintains focus on project outcomes, deliverables, and commitments and proactively helps move work forward.
Learning Agility Quickly learns new business areas, projects, and processes and adapts as priorities evolve.
Digital Fluency Uses digital tools and data effectively to manage projects, communicate progress, and improve team productivity.
Customer Centricity Considers the needs of internal and external customers when supporting projects and developing recommendations.
What Success Looks Like A successful Program Manager on the Commercial Strategy & Transformation team will be a trusted execution partner who can take responsibility for defined projects and workstreams and help move them forward with increasing independence.
They will:
- Create structure from ambiguity by turning priorities into clear plans, deliverables, and actions.
- Drive execution by maintaining momentum and following through on commitments.
- Manage workstreams independently while knowing when to seek guidance or escalate issues.
- Connect the dots by identifying dependencies and bringing together the right stakeholders and information.
- Communicate clearly by developing concise, leadership ready materials and project updates.
- Use data to inform recommendations and support sound decision making.
- Anticipate issues by identifying risks and gaps before they become larger roadblocks.
- Adapt quickly as projects and business priorities evolve.
- Improve how the team operates by introducing structure, documentation, and repeatable approaches.
Impact & Scope This role primarily impacts the immediate team and the cross functional stakeholders supporting assigned projects. The Program Manager serves as an informed team member who provides analysis, recommendations, and project direction within their area of responsibility. The role typically works on small to medium scale initiatives with low to moderate levels of complexity and risk, exercising independent judgment within established practices and engaging senior team members when broader strategic direction or escalation is required.
Preferred Profile
- We are especially interested in someone who is:
- Highly organized and dependable.
- Naturally proactive and comfortable following through with stakeholders.
- Able to work independently without requiring constant direction.
- Strong at turning conversations into clear actions and deliverables.
- Comfortable building PowerPoint presentations and leadership ready materials.
- Able to balance several projects and deadlines at once.
- Curious and willing to jump into unfamiliar business topics.
- Comfortable working behind the scenes to make complex initiatives run smoothly.
- Equally comfortable coordinating the details and understanding the broader business objective.
The pay range for this role is $95,000 to $110,000 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies, including;
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview [https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/])
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
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