Senior Program Manager – CO&P Program Management Organization; PMO

Senior Program Manager – CO&P PMO – Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina

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The Corporate Operations & Planning Program Management Organization (CO&P PMO) is looking for a Senior Program Manager to lead high-impact, cross-divisional initiatives and programs that drive strategic transformation and operational excellence across SAS. The CO&P addresses four critical challenges for SAS: ensuring the right strategy, enabling better decisions, improving operational effectiveness, and strengthening our competitive advantage. The CO&P PMO accelerates SAS’s strategic vision and addresses those four challenges by transforming prioritized initiatives into measurable results through program alignment, governance, and business impact.

Through disciplined execution, we ensure strategic initiatives and programs are delivered on time, within scope, and with measurable value, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement that drives long-term business success. This position is a critical part of the team working to secure SAS’s future.

Work Location: Cary, NC Headquarters

As a Senior Corporate Operations & Planning Program Manager, you will:

Collaborate with the PMO, executive sponsors, business leaders, and cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives and programs that advance SAS’s strategic goals and initiatives with the following guiding areas of focus:

• Initiative & Program Leadership: Manage and support the initiation, planning, execution, and closure of initiatives and programs to ensure they align with strategic goals and the CO&P PMO charter. Serve as the primary point of contact for all initiative- or program-related matters, liaising with interested parties throughout the company to ensure successful outcomes. Demonstrate strong analytical abilities to assess solutions for both program and business operation needs.
• Guidance to teams: Provide guidance and direction to teams to ensure alignment with established goals, objectives, and deadlines.
• Planning & monitoring: Develop detailed initiative and program plans to effectively track and monitor progress, ensuring scope is aligned with broader business strategies.
• Cadence of delivery: Orchestrate a consistent cadence of meetings and working sessions with colleagues and team members to manage deliverables and monitor progress.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment: By cultivating and sustaining strong working relationships, translate high-level initiatives into executable programs by partnering with key stakeholders to define scope, identify objectives with measurable outcomes, and lead initiatives or programs that enhance the effectiveness of strategic goals. Collaborate with partner organizations responsible for shared success to identify and track key performance metrics related to stakeholder priorities, satisfaction, and achievement of objectives, ensuring collective initiative or program success.
• Governance & Reporting: Abide by the PMO methodology by developing and maintaining comprehensive initiative or program documentation including plans, schedules, and status updates; facilitate clear communication across teams to drive alignment, transparent reporting, and realization of intended benefits. Including preparing and delivering tailored reports for various stakeholder groups, outlining initiative or program status, challenges, and solutions.
• Program Delivery: Plan, prioritize, implement, and adjust delivery schedules, scope, resourcing, and program quality requirements as needed. Facilitate status meetings, coordinate cross-divisional resources, and facilitate clear communication among stakeholders to keep programs on track. Proactively manage action items, formulate mitigation…