Lead Program Manager - Digital

Sonepar•Broomfield, CO

6d•$135,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Sonepar Management Group (SMG) supports Sonepar’s US operating companies through shared services, including human resources, finance, digital enterprise, supply chain, vendor relations, marketing, legal, and communications. SMG’s teams help its brands operate locally while benefiting from the scale and resources of a global enterprise. The Lead Program Manager coordinates a portfolio of related projects to achieve shared strategic and business outcomes. The role typically oversees 2–5 interconnected projects and manages cross-project dependencies, risks, resources, budgets, and governance across multiple teams and stakeholders. Programs generally have budgets ranging from $2 million to $10 million. The role supports executive and steering committee decision-making and keeps programs aligned with strategic objectives, adoption goals, and expected business benefits. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, the position follows a hybrid schedule: three days per week in the Broomfield office and two days remotely, based on business needs. Regular collaboration with leaders, project teams, business partners, and stakeholders across Sonepar and its family of brands is required, along with up to 20% travel.

Requirements

8–12 years of project and/or program management experience, including responsibility for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple related projects simultaneously and managing cross-project dependencies.
Experience working with senior leaders, executive sponsors, steering committees, technology teams, and business stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to manage program-level risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, resources, and executive reporting.
Experience managing large-scale programs with significant organizational, operational, or technology impact.
Experience managing or coordinating program budgets in the $2 million–$10 million range.
Ability to translate business strategy into executable roadmaps, programs, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
Strong experience communicating program status, business value, financial performance, risks, and decisions to executive audiences.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required or strongly preferred.
Strong program and portfolio management capabilities, executive communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to work effectively in a matrixed organization with multiple business and technology stakeholders.
Strong financial acumen, including program budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and benefits realization.
Ability to identify and resolve complex dependencies, risks, and organizational barriers; strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities focused on business outcomes and measurable value.
Ability to influence stakeholders and drive decisions without relying solely on direct authority.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to translate complex technical, digital, and business information into clear recommendations for executive audiences.
Ability to lead through ambiguity and change while maintaining focus on strategic objectives.

Nice To Haves

Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification or demonstrated progression toward program management certification.
Change management certification, such as Prosci, or Agile certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI-ACP, or SAFe.
Experience leading enterprise digital transformation, technology modernization, customer experience, eCommerce, data, automation, ERP, or other large-scale digital programs.
Experience working across Technology, Digital, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial, and other business functions.
Experience implementing structured program governance and executive steering committee processes.
Experience with both Agile and traditional project/program management methodologies.
Experience supporting organizational change, business adoption, and transformation initiatives.
Experience in distribution, electrical distribution, wholesale, manufacturing, supply chain, or other complex multi-location organizations.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain integrated program scope, strategic outcomes, roadmaps, workstreams, milestones, governance structures, and success measures across related projects.
Translate strategic business and digital priorities into executable program plans, objectives, deliverables, dependencies, decision points, and accountabilities.
Partner with project managers, product leaders, technology teams, business stakeholders, and functional leaders to maintain alignment and ensure projects support program and organizational outcomes.
Identify and manage dependencies across projects, workstreams, teams, systems, and business functions.
Monitor shared resources, risks, issues, assumptions, and critical decisions across the program; develop mitigation and contingency plans and facilitate resolution of cross-functional challenges.
Escalate material issues and decisions with clear recommendations and options for leadership.
Establish and facilitate program governance routines and leadership reviews; prepare steering committee materials, executive updates, decision requests, risk summaries, and program reporting.
Maintain decision logs, escalation paths, action items, and governance documentation, and present program information clearly to senior leaders and stakeholders.
Provide leadership visibility into program health, dependencies, risks, financial performance, and business outcomes.
Establish mechanisms to track program benefits and business outcomes; partner with business owners to monitor adoption, operational impact, financial benefits, and other success measures.
Track benefits realization, identify gaps between expected and realized value, and work with stakeholders on corrective actions.
Develop program reports that communicate progress, accomplishments, outcomes, and value delivered.
Coordinate program financial planning and manage budgets generally ranging from $2 million to $10 million.
Monitor forecasts, expenditures, resource requirements, and financial risks across program workstreams, partnering with project leaders, Finance, Digital and Technology teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
Identify resource constraints and recommend priorities, sequencing, capacity, and trade-offs; support business cases, investment decisions, forecasts, and program budget reporting.