Lead Program Manager - Digital

Sonepar Management Group (SMG) supports our Sonepar brands (i.e. operating companies) in the US through a shared services model. These services include, but are not limited to: human resources, finance, digital enterprise, supply chain, vendor relations, marketing, legal, and communications. The SMG teams enable our brands to do business in their local regions while taking advantage of the scale and collective resources of a global enterprise.

SMG fosters an inclusive and supportive culture. We offer leadership and development programs to help you reach your career goals. Our associates share in our collective achievements, and we firmly believe that Sonepar is “Powered by Difference.” By driving technology and innovation, enabling paths to success, and caring about our people and their families, we have built a workplace where you can build a fulfilling career.

At Sonepar, we are committed to powering progress for our customers, associates, and communities. As we continue to advance our digital capabilities, we are seeking an experienced Lead Program Manager
- Digital to lead complex, cross-functional programs that enable our strategic business and digital priorities. This role offers the opportunity to work across technology, digital, business, and functional teams to translate strategic priorities into coordinated programs that deliver measurable business value.

The Lead Program Manager
- Digital coordinates a portfolio of related projects toward shared strategic and business outcomes. This position will typically oversee 2-5 interconnected projects, managing cross-project dependencies, risks, resources, budgets, and governance across multiple teams and stakeholders. The Lead Program Manager will support executive and steering committee decision-making while ensuring programs remain aligned with strategic objectives, adoption goals, and expected business benefits. Programs managed by this role will generally include budgets ranging from $2 million to $10 million.

• Define and maintain integrated program scope, strategic outcomes, roadmaps, work streams, milestones, governance structures, and success measures across multiple related projects.
• Translate strategic business and digital priorities into executable program plans.
• Establish clear program objectives, deliverables, dependencies, decision points, and accountability.
• Partner with project managers, product leaders, technology teams, business stakeholders, and functional leaders to maintain alignment throughout the program lifecycle.
• Ensure individual projects collectively support the intended program outcomes and broader organizational strategy.
• Proactively identify and manage dependencies across projects, work streams, teams, systems, and business functions.
• Monitor shared resources, risks, issues, assumptions, and critical decisions across the program.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-functional challenges that could impact timelines, scope, budget, or expected outcomes.
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans for significant program risks.
• Escalate material issues and decisions appropriately while providing leadership with clear recommendations and options.

• Establish and facilitate effective program governance routines and leadership reviews.
• Prepare steering committee materials, executive updates, decision requests, risk summaries, and program-level reporting.
• Maintain program decision logs, escalation paths, action items, and key governance documentation.
• Present complex program information in a clear, concise, and decision-oriented manner to senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Ensure leadership has appropriate visibility into program health, dependencies, risks, financial performance, and business outcomes.

• Establish mechanisms for tracking expected program benefits and business outcomes.
• Partner with business owners and stakeholders to monitor adoption, operational impact, financial benefits, and other agreed-upon success measures.
• Maintain visibility into benefits realization throughout program execution and after key implementations.
• Identify gaps between expected and realized value and work with stakeholders to develop appropriate corrective actions.
• Develop program-level reports that clearly communicate progress, accomplishments, outcomes, and value delivered.

• Coordinate program financial planning and…