Senior Agile Program Manager

About the role

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Senior Agile Program Manager to join its PMO supporting a large-scale business and technology transformation. This is a highly hands-on role focused on creating structure, keeping detailed plans, coordinating many stakeholders and making sure commitments move forward. The manager owns the day-to-day management of an assigned program or workstream and works closely with senior program leadership, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed teams.

Key responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day program management of an assigned transformation workstream.
• Build, maintain and manage detailed bottom-up project and program plans.
• Track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies and actions, and ensure commitments have clear owners.
• Coordinate activities across internal teams, client stakeholders, third parties and globally distributed delivery teams.
• Identify risks and dependencies early, escalate issues and prepare accurate status reports for leadership and clients.
• Support governance meetings, working sessions and executive reviews, and create polished PowerPoint presentations for clients.
• Work across multiple program areas, help improve PMO processes and tools, and support planning, resource coordination and execution.

Required profile

• Strong hands-on project or program management experience, including complex projects or workstreams within larger transformation programs.
• Ability to build and maintain detailed delivery plans and track risks, dependencies, decisions, deliverables and actions.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams and stakeholders, and with globally distributed teams.
• Strong client-facing written and verbal communication, and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfortable operating when requirements or program structures are still evolving, and able to escalate issues when needed.

Required skills

• Detailed delivery planning and risk and dependency tracking.
• Strong PowerPoint and presentation skills.
• Preferred: experience with AI or generative AI programs, marketing/advertising/media or consumer-products background, large-scale digital transformation, offshore or India-based delivery teams, external partners and complex consulting environments.

Salary range: $120,000 - $155,000.