SR Program Manager

SR Program Manager at eRichards Consulting SR Program Manager at eRichards Consulting in Chicopee, Massachusetts Posted in 1 day ago.

Type:

full-time

Job Description:

Our excellent client seeks a SR Program Manager with Finance experience for an 18 mo+ HYBRID W2 contract role in Springfield, MA. Must be able to work on our

W2. NO AGENCIES.

Duties:

The Senior Program Manager is the central execution leader for the program. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused leadership position that requires daily engagement in execution management, cross-track coordination, governance enforcement, and stakeholder communication. The Senior Program Manager will be the person who makes the delivery model work

• translating strategy into daily, weekly, and monthly operating rhythm.

This role is accountable for:

Owning the integrated program plan across all tracks

• schedule, dependencies, milestones, and critical path Driving the daily and weekly execution cadence
• standups, iteration planning, demos, retrospectives Enforcing entry/exit gates between delivery phases
• no development starts without readiness criteria being met Managing cross-track dependencies and sequencing
• ensuring parallel and sequenced tracks do not destabilize each other Owning the SteerCo agenda, pre-read, and follow-up
• ensuring the steering committee is a decision engine, not a status meeting Driving the re-baselining effort
• establishing velocity baselines and validating the target delivery date within the first 90 days Owning risk, issue, and action management
• surfacing problems early, escalating with recommendations, and driving resolution Managing the operating rhythm across US-based and India-based teams
• including enforcing the guided execution model for offshore delivery Partnering with the Business Sponsor (acting Product Owner) to ensure decisions are made, documented, and translated into stable requirements Preparing executive-ready reporting
• program status, quality metrics, velocity trends, risk dashboards
• for delivery leadership and senior stakeholders Key Responsibilities Program Execution & Delivery Own the integrated program plan across all active and sequenced tracks.

Maintain schedule accuracy, dependency mapping, and critical path visibility. Drive iteration planning, execution tracking, and completion reviews for each 2-week iteration cycle. Ensure work entering each iteration has met defined readiness criteria. Enforce the Structured Iterative delivery model

• phases, gates, and change control.

Prevent the program from reverting to ad hoc or unstructured execution patterns.

Lead the re-baselining effort:

establish velocity baselines from the first 2-3 iterations, validate the integrated schedule against actual throughput, and recommend date adjustments with supporting data.

Monitor and manage track sequencing:

ensure sequenced tracks do not enter build until predecessor tracks meet defined exit criteria.

Own change control:

ensure all mid-build requirement changes are documented, impact-assessed, and approved before integration into the next iteration.