Program Manager, Program Integration & Deployment

Location: On-site four days per week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Employment Type: Full-time, long-term consulting engagement

Are you an experienced Program Manager who excels at bringing complex transformation programs, technology teams, and business stakeholders together? Trissential is seeking a Program Manager, Program Integration & Deployment to join our client’s team and help drive a large-scale enterprise re-platforming initiative centered on SAP S/4

HANA.

In this highly visible role, you will coordinate integration work across Salesforce, Analytics, and other technology teams while strengthening governance, managing dependencies, and preparing the organization for successful deployment and cutover.

What’s in It for You?

• Enterprise-Wide Impact: Help shape the successful delivery of a major SAP S/4
  
  HANA transformation.
• Leadership Visibility: Partner with program leaders and senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Drive alignment across teams and work streams, even when they do not report directly to you.
• End-to-End Ownership: Contribute from integration planning and governance through deployment, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Long-Term Opportunity: Join an engagement expected to continue through at least 2028.

Your Role & Responsibilities

Program Integration Management

• Coordinate integration initiatives supporting the program across multiple internal technology teams.
• Build and maintain integrated delivery plans, schedules, dependencies, milestones, and workstream commitments.
• Facilitate planning and alignment across business and technology teams.
• Identify, track, and proactively manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies through disciplined RAID management.
• Remove cross-team blockers and escalator critical issues when leadership intervention is required.
• Monitor overall program health and provide concise status reporting to program leaders and stakeholders.

Governance & Stakeholder Leadership

• Lead program governance activities, including status reviews, leadership updates, and steering committee preparation.
• Align participating teams around shared priorities, timelines, outcomes, and deliverables.
• Facilitate timely decision-making while maintaining visibility into key program objectives.
• Communicate program status, delivery risks, mitigation plans, and readiness assessments to senior stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships and influence decisions across teams without relying on direct authority.

Deployment & Cutover

• Support the planning and execution of enterprise deployment, release, and cutover activities.
• Coordinate operational and implementation readiness across business and technology teams.
• Facilitate deployment planning, contingency planning, and go-live preparation.
• Support hypercare planning and post-deployment stabilization.
• Confirm that critical dependencies and operational-readiness requirements are addressed before go-live.

Skills & Experience You Should Possess

• 10 or more years of program or project management experience leading large-scale technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex programs involving multiple delivery teams and stakeholder groups.
• Success coordinating cross-functional dependencies, integration activities, and enterprise transformation work.
• Strong program-governance, risk-management, and executive-communication capabilities.
• Experience managing enterprise deployments, releases, cutovers, or other large-scale implementations.
• Proven ability to establish relationships and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong hands-on experience using Jira to manage delivery, risks, dependencies, and program visibility.
• Excellent organizational, written communication, facilitation, and…