Senior Agile Program Manager

Publicis Sapient is seeking a Manager, Program Management to join the PMO supporting a large-scale business and technology transformation.

This is a highly hands-on role for someone who excels at creating structure, maintaining detailed plans, coordinating multiple stakeholders and ensuring that actions and commitments move forward.

The Manager will own the day-to-day management of an assigned program or workstream and work closely with senior program leadership, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed teams.

Your Impact:

• 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 escalate 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.

Your Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on project or program management experience.
• Experience managing complex projects or individual 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 within 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 still evolving.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort escalating issues when necessary.

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Experience supporting AI or Generative AI programs.
• Marketing, advertising, media or consumer-products experience.
• Understanding of marketing processes, including research and insights, strategy development, campaign planning, content development or measurement.
• Experience with large-scale business or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience coordinating offshore or India-based delivery teams.
• Experience managing external partners or third-party dependencies.
• Experience in complex consulting environments.