Senior Agile Program Manager

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

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.

• Own the day-to-day program management of an assigned transformation workstream.
• Build, maintain and actively manage detailed bottom-up project and program plans
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• 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 elevate 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.

• Strong hands-on project or program management experience.
• Experience managing complex projects or individual work streams 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.

• Experience supporting AI or Generative AI programs
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• 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…