Senior Manager, Project & Program Management

About the role

Alcon is seeking a Senior Manager to lead project and program initiatives for its R&D organization in Fort Worth, Texas. You will translate enterprise and R&D priorities into actionable roadmaps, governance routines, and sustainable outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Support cross‑functional strategic initiatives from vision through execution, adoption, and sustainment.
• Partner with sponsors, stakeholders, functional leaders, and project teams to align scope, priorities, risks, resources, decisions, and execution plans.
• Create and maintain project charters, roadmaps, plans, timelines, forecasts, budgets, governance plans, and decision materials.
• Drive fit‑for‑purpose project standards, stage‑gates, templates, dashboards, reporting routines, risk tracking, dependency management, and action follow‑through.
• Facilitate governance forums, leadership updates, escalation discussions, and decision‑making routines.
• Monitor project performance against timing, budget, scope, adoption, risks, dependencies, and success measures; identify trade‑offs impacting broader priorities.
• Design and support communication, stakeholder engagement, change management, and adoption plans.
• Establish feedback loops, lessons learned, sustainment mechanisms, and continuous‑improvement opportunities.
• Support AI‑enabled and digitally enabled transformation initiatives through intake, prioritization, governance, delivery cadence, decision rights, adoption metrics, capability building, and value realization.
• Role‑model and coach project teams and stakeholders in practical project management, change management, continuous improvement, workflow redesign, and sustainment practices.

Required profile

• Extensive experience leading large, cross‑functional projects or programs, preferably in a R&D or scientific environment.
• Proven ability to partner with senior leaders and sponsors to align priorities and drive execution.
• Strong governance and risk‑management expertise, with a track record of delivering on time and within budget.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑engagement skills to facilitate decision‑making and adoption.
• Demonstrated capability to design and implement repeatable, scalable ways of working.

Required skills