Program Manager

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This role is in support of Cencora's veterinary and livestock production solutions marketed through our MWI Animal Health business. MWI Animal Health is a leading brand of Cencora, offering animal health services globally.

The Program Manager is accountable for end-to-end delivery of a complex, multi-workstream platform—from strategy approval through launch and sustained adoption. This role converts Product Management’s vision and business objectives into an integrated, multi-phase program roadmap with explicit dependencies, milestones, governance, and delivery timelines. As the owner of program execution and health, the Program Manager leads cross-functional planning and executive forums, manages sequencing and tradeoffs across workstreams, and ensures the platform is operationally ready, adopted by users, and delivers measurable business outcomes.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the platform across all business and technical workstreams, from strategy approval through launch and adoption.
• Translate Product-owned vision and priorities into an integrated, multi-phase roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Orchestrate cross-team execution so initiatives ship as a cohesive platform, with aligned scope, timing, and operational readiness.
• Manage cross-workstream dependencies, sequencing, and constraints; surface impacts early and drive decisions that protect critical paths.
• Lead program governance (steering committees, executive reviews) with concise, decision-oriented updates, options, and recommendations.
• Own program-level risk and issue management: define mitigation plans, monitor execution, and escalate blockers with clear impact statements.
• Continuously maintain and re-baseline the integrated roadmap based on business priority changes, capacity, delivery learning, and readiness needs.
• Partner with Product Management to align execution to roadmap intent while Product retains ownership of vision, requirements, and backlog prioritization.
• Drive operational readiness, change management, and enablement plans so teams can support launch, adoption, and scaled operations.
• Provide program-level financial oversight with Finance, including forecasting, budget risks, and variance drivers tied to delivery plans.

Experience and Educational Requirements:

• Proven experience owning end-to-end delivery of a complex platform across 10 interdependent workstreams, including dependency management, tradeoffs, and executive governance.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent practical experience) in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; program/project management certification preferred (e.g., PMP, PgMP, CSM/PSM, SAFe).
• Track record delivering initiatives through launch, operational readiness, and adoption in regulated and/or operationally complex domains (e.g., B2C commerce, healthcare, veterinary, pharmacy-adjacent).
• Experience managing program-level financials, capacity, and delivery constraints in partnership with Finance and functional leaders.
• Experience effectively using communication and organizational tools, to include Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence and Aha!, to keep stakeholders engaged and up to speed.

Minimum Skill, Knowledge and Ability Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced skills in leading client discussions with proven success in facilitating consensus on priorities and the path forward.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly present strategy and solution concepts to executives, sales teams and customers.
• Skilled in conflict management.
• Well versed in finance and accounting core concepts and principles.
• Able to prepare a complex master schedule inclusive of dependencies and resourcing.