Senior Program Manager

Molex - Lisle, IL

Full-time - Senior

Lisle, IL

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Program Manager at Molex will lead key client engagements across the ERP landscape, driving accountability and ensuring alignment among diverse teams to achieve established goals. This role involves simplifying internal complexities, providing insights into financial forecasts, and managing relationships with System Integrators to deliver excellent outcomes for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive accountability across teams toward established goals and objectives, raising risks as needed and ensuring reporting reflects reality.
• Influence and lead diverse teams to align behind common goals and deliver excellent outcomes for stakeholders.
• Provide insight to leadership into financial forecasts and historical budget trends to ensure budgets meet requirements.
• Simplify internal complexity and ambiguity to deliver clear messaging that inspires trust and credibility.
• Meet regularly with business and technology owners to define business and technical requirements.
• Support leadership in developing material and key messaging for executive readouts.
• Manage System Integrators (SIs) and help drive the value stream to meet set objectives.
• Work with SIs to plan the course of the program, including milestones, resources required, and cross-functional dependencies, and document in project plan.
• Engage closely with key stakeholders to provide transparency and assessment on risks and issues.
• Act as escalation point within ERP space, removing obstacles for project managers.
• Review change control items and facilitate Change Control Board meetings.
• Establish cadence for evaluating metrics and monitor investment vs return against the expected schedule.
• Report overall program KPIs, analyze trends, and provide mitigation plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with large-scale global transformational ERP programs
• Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate discussions and resolve issues among cross-functional leaders
• Experience in developing executive presentations and analyzing data insights
• Global multi-country and multi-functional experience