Highlights
This role will serve as a senior-level program management leader responsible for driving execution, governance, planning, dependency management, financial oversight, and executive reporting across a large-scale business and technology transformation program. The role requires exceptional program and project management expertise, strong executive presence, and the ability to proactively identify risks, resolve issues, manage dependencies, and drive decisions across a highly matrixed environment.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mettawa, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $85–$100 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people's lives.
Job Title: Program Manager
Location: Mettawa, IL 60045
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid (Prefer On-site 4 days a week)
Job Summary:
- Client is seeking an experienced Consultant Program Manager to join the Project One Program Management Office (PMO). This role will serve as a senior-level program management leader responsible for driving execution, governance, planning, dependency management, financial oversight, and executive reporting across a large-scale business and technology transformation program.
- The successful candidate will function as a strategic consultant within the PMO, providing leadership and guidance across multiple initiatives while helping teams navigate complex business, process, organizational, and technology challenges. This individual must be comfortable operating with limited direction, influencing diverse stakeholder groups, and balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution.
- The role requires exceptional program and project management expertise, strong executive presence, and the ability to proactively identify risks, resolve issues, manage dependencies, and drive decisions across a highly matrixed environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Program Leadership & Execution
- Lead and support complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning business, technology, process transformation, change management, and organizational readiness.
- Develop and maintain integrated program plans, schedules, milestones, and critical path activities.
- Ensure adherence to master program plans and delivery commitments.
- Identify and implement solutions to complex program challenges.
- Provide strategic counsel and practical recommendations to PMO leadership and stakeholders.
- Operate independently and successfully manage ambiguous situations with minimal supervision.
- Planning & Dependency Management
- Create and manage integrated plans across multiple workstreams, teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
- Identify, track, and proactively manage cross-functional dependencies and delivery risks.
- Coordinate planning activities and ensure alignment across interconnected initiatives.
- Assess impacts of changes and decisions on program objectives and timelines.
- Risk, Issue & Governance Management
- Lead RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) management activities.
- Proactively identify potential roadblocks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Drive issue resolution and escalation management across business and technology teams.
- Support governance processes, decision-making forums, and steering committee activities.
- Ensure transparency into program health and delivery performance.
- Executive Reporting & Communications
- Develop executive-level presentations, dashboards, status reports, scorecards, and decision materials.
- Translate complex program information into concise and actionable insights.
- Support executive governance meetings and facilitate effective communication across stakeholder groups.
- Financial & Vendor Management
- Contribute to program budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning activities.
- Monitor program spend and support financial reporting and variance analysis.
- Assist with resource planning and capacity forecasting.
- Support management of consulting partners and vendors, including deliverable tracking, milestone management, and performance reviews.
- Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships across BTS, Commercial, Medical, Finance, and business leadership teams.
- Influence stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority.
- Facilitate discussions among teams with competing priorities and objectives.
- Promote accountability, collaboration, and execution excellence across the program.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Project Management, or related field.
- 10+ years of program and project management experience, including large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream programs involving diverse stakeholder groups and external vendors.
- Strong experience in integrated planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive reporting.
- Experience supporting governance processes and communicating with senior leadership audiences.
- Proven ability to contribute to financial forecasting, budget management, and vendor oversight activities.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and deliver results in fast-paced and evolving environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or life sciences organizations.
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent project/program management certification.
- Experience supporting enterprise PMOs, TMOs, or transformation offices.
- Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Experience with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, and Microsoft 365 tools.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.