Strategy Program Manager

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Full Time | Management | St Paul, MN, US

Salary Range: $95,000.00 To $ Annually

American Engineering Testing (AET) is a growing professional services firm specializing in geotechnical engineering, environmental consulting, materials testing, and construction observation. With offices across the Midwest and a talented team of engineers, scientists, and technical professionals, AET serves clients across infrastructure, commercial development, energy, and government sectors.

AET is at an inflection point. We are executing a multi-year enterprise transformation designed to take us from a strong regional firm to a scaled, high-performing organization: standardizing how we deliver work, building the systems and processes that support growth, and developing the leadership capabilities that will define AET for the next decade. This transformation is active and moving. We are looking for someone to help us run it with discipline and precision.

The Strategy Program Manager plays a critical role in executing AET’s enterprise transformation program. This position is responsible for the governance, coordination, and execution discipline that keeps multiple interconnected strategic initiatives moving forward simultaneously, across multiple years. Working directly with the VP of Strategy and Growth and alongside AET’s senior leadership team, the Strategy Program Manager translates strategic priorities into execution plans, holds initiative teams and sponsors accountable to milestones, surfaces and resolves the decisions that are blocking progress, and builds the organizational capability to manage complex programs effectively.

The ideal candidate is a highly adaptable, execution-focused professional with deep experience managing multi-initiative transformation programs in small to mid-sized organizations. They bring strong change management expertise, the ability to influence without authority, and the judgment to know when to escalation and when to resolve. This role requires both strategic thinking and operational discipline, the ability to frame an executive update in the morning and facilitate a cross-initiative coordination meeting in the afternoon.

• Own the governance structure that keeps the transformation program running — cross-initiative coordination cadence, integrated program roadmap, dependency and risk tracking, and the governance calendar across all active initiatives
• Establish and maintain the governance structure with full accountability, cadences, reporting, and decision-making forums, that keeps AET’s transformation initiatives on track
• Translate strategic priorities into clear, actionable execution plans with defined milestones, owners, and dependencies
• Design and facilitate program meetings, prepare pre-work, follow through on decisions, and ensure the program maintains a consistent, reliable operating rhythm
• Facilitate cross-initiative coordination to resolve dependencies and conflicts between work streams.
• Hold multiple work streams progress simultaneously, track complex interdependencies, and maintain forward momentum across a long-horizon program
• Maintain and continuously update the RAID log and program dashboard

• Build trusted working relationships with senior leaders across the organization, influencing outcomes without direct authority.
• Partner with business leads and executive sponsors who own each initiative helping them build realistic work plans, track against milestones, surface risks before they become crises, and drive decisions to closure on schedule
• Serve as the accountability and discipline layer across all initiatives, not as the project manager for any single workstream, but as the integrating force across all of them
• Define and deploy project management templates, standards, and operating rhythms that initiative teams use to run their work

• Prepare and deliver…