Program Manager, Advisor

Remote Work:
Hybrid

At Zebra, we are a community of innovators who come together to create new ways of working. United by curiosity and a culture of caring, we develop smart solutions that anticipate our customer’s and partner’s needs and solve their challenges. Being a part of Zebra Nation means you are seen, heard, valued, and respected. Drawing from our unique perspectives, we collaborate to deliver on our purpose.

Here you are a part of a team pushing boundaries today to redefine the work of tomorrow for organizations, their employees, and those they serve.

You’ll have opportunities to learn and lead in a forward‑thinking environment, defining your path to a fulfilling career while channeling your skills toward causes you care about – locally and globally. Come make an impact every day at Zebra.

We are seeking a dynamic and autonomous leader to spearhead critical, large‑scale projects while providing top‑tier support for escalated customer orders. You will own the entire program lifecycle, from planning and execution to proactively resolving issues and communicating progress to senior leadership. This role offers the chance to mentor junior team members and drive process improvements across the organization. If you are a seasoned program manager who excels at navigating complexity and delivering results, we encourage you to apply.

This role requires a minimum of 3‑days per week in our Holtsville, NY (Long Island) office or Lincolnshire, IL office, 2 days remote (US).

• Proactively chases and monitors highly escalated customer orders, providing timely and accurate shipment status updates to the BU and other key stakeholders.
• Responsible for the execution of multiple moderate to large scope projects. Programs are complex in nature with cross‑functional teams in multiple locations.
• Uses and makes improvement recommendations to established tools, approaches/methodologies, and templates to guide and document the plan and communicates it to the team.
• Responsible for all aspects of program planning and execution fully autonomously.
• Organizes cross‑functional activities, ensuring program completion, i.e., product on schedule and within budget constraints; owns regular meeting coordination, facilitation, and documentation of progress.
• Proactively identifies cross‑functional impacts of decisions, project plans, and execution.
• Balances scope, schedule, and budget considerations to adjust the project with minimal impact to the business; understands the business objectives of the business unit and program.
• Assumes self and indirect project team’s accountability for program success against the objectives; gathers status updates from the project team and interprets inputs from the team to assemble a consolidated view of status; provides regular status updates to senior management as directed; owns ensuring alignment from key leaders of milestone achievement before moving the program forward.
• Prepares and influentially presents status updates and other deliverables to senior level audiences.
• Independently engages additional resources as needed to address obstacles/delays.
• Proactively provides recommendations for issue resolution; adjusts the plan as delays/obstacles are experienced.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of all PM techniques; utilizes PM tools & techniques in scheduling & staffing plans with an understanding of task duration and dependencies; develops comprehensive risk management plans.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of development processes and product launch scope and activities.
• Demonstrates ability to navigate complex problems and overcome ambiguity with limited manager oversight.
• Functional Leadership of Program Management teams; may mentor and advise junior Program Managers.
• Identifies, recommends, and implements process improvements.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, MS preferred.
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience, plus experience leading teams.

• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Demonstrated excellence in facilitating to audiences at every level, including senior leadership.
• Comfortable and experienced in delegating and…