Senior Strategic Realization Program Manager

USP•Rockville, MD

11d

About The Position

The Senior Strategic Realization Program Manager plays a key role in translating the organization’s strategy into tangible results. This position partners with senior leaders including the CEO, Executive Team, and Global Leadership Team to ensure strategic initiatives are designed, pressure tested and executed effectively, with a focus on measurable outcomes and operational excellence. The individual in this role will review strategies, proposals, and plans from across the organization to assess their credibility, strategic fit, operational feasibility, risks, dependencies, and likely impact. They will build, implement, and oversee frameworks for accountability, develop insightful metrics, and drive process improvements that enable sustainable success. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is energized by complex, ambiguous problems; able to move work forward with incomplete information; skilled at building practical processes that can be transitioned to others to operate and iterate; and eager to contribute to high-level strategic goals through sound judgment, rapid learning, and executive-level synthesis.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Strategy, or other related areas with experience in business operations.
8+ years of relevant experience in strategic program management, business operations, or performance management roles, building sustainable frameworks to drive efficiencies and streamline operations.
Proficiency leading teams and transformation initiatives, without formal authority, and with a track record of delivering results through others.
Proven experience in assessing, designing, and implementing performance measurement frameworks (e.g., KPIs, dashboards, balanced scorecards) to drive accountability and inform decision-making.
Demonstrated experience working closely with senior leadership to evaluate, challenge, and refine strategies and plans.
Strong strategic judgment and critical thinking skills, including the ability to evaluate the credibility, feasibility, risks, and likely impact of proposals, plans, and business cases.
Demonstrated ability to bring structure to ambiguous, complex, or emerging business problems and move work forward with incomplete information.
Experience synthesizing complex issues, risks, and tradeoffs into concise executive-level communications and recommendations.
Experience facilitating cross-functional collaboration and issue resolution in a complex, matrixed organization.
Track record of designing, implementing, and transitioning processes, frameworks, or operating models to business owners for sustained use and continuous improvement.
Strong time management, project management skills (i.e., proactive approach, deadline management, follow-up mechanisms, overview instruments), organizational skills and attention to detail.
Growth mindset and learning agility, with demonstrated ability to iterate quickly, incorporate feedback, and adapt approaches as new information emerges.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a related health science field.
Certification in project management (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2) or process improvement (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
Experience with performance measurement frameworks such as Balanced Scorecard or objectives and key results (OKR).
Experience identifying high-value use cases for AI-enabled tools, automation, or workflow technologies; piloting practical solutions; and scaling adoption across teams to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, improve decision support, and drive operational efficiencies.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with senior leaders to define clear objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) that align with the organization’s strategic priorities.
On behalf of the CEO and Executive Team, assess viability and likely strategic effectiveness of the strategies and plans proposed by the Global Leadership Team.
Critically evaluate strategic proposals, business cases, and initiative plans to pressure-test assumptions, identify gaps in logic or execution readiness, and assess credibility, feasibility, and likely impact.
Monitor progress, identify potential roadblocks, and proactively navigate (in partnership with business owner) to keep initiatives on track.
Facilitate discussions that challenge assumptions and drive clarity on deliverables and milestones.
Synthesize risks, tradeoffs, and issues of concern into clear, balanced, and actionable recommendations for senior executives.
Establish mechanisms and provide close to real time monitoring of performance, allowing us to rapidly adjust to signals as needed.
Think critically about program performance against goals and expectations, distinguish signal from noise, and synthesize issues of concern for executives in a concise and actionable manner.
Design, implement and maintain metrics and multi-level dashboards (e.g., streamlined ET version vs more details program version) that provide visibility into strategic effectiveness and likely impact of ongoing initiatives.
Analyze data to provide insights that inform decision-making and continuous improvement.
Identify opportunities to streamline and standardize processes that support new and existing strategic initiatives, especially where ownership, decision rights, or operating rhythms are unclear.
Design and implement lightweight, durable processes, tools, and frameworks that solve near-term problems while creating repeatable models that can be handed off to business owners for ongoing operation and continuous improvement.
Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure process solutions are scalable and aligned with organizational goals.
Rapidly prototype, test, and refine approaches in response to stakeholder feedback, performance data, and changing organizational needs.
Lead change management efforts associated with strategic initiatives, including communication plans, training, and stakeholder engagement.
Foster a culture of adaptability and continuous improvement.
Leverage analytical skills to assess initiative performance, identify trends, and drive meaningful insights.
Maintain a high level of operational rigor by organizing information effectively, managing dependencies, and ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
Help identify and solve problems that present obstacles and challenges to the team, facilitating issue resolution with senior stakeholders on a timely basis.
Operate effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments, using available information to form sound recommendations while identifying where further data, alignment, or decision-making is needed.
Build and maintain high quality relationships with functional partners to facilitate timely discussions (e.g., for investment, issue resolution, etc.).
Ensure high quality engagement by other functions in Committee conversations and decisions.
Establish high quality relationships with ET and GLT members and leaders.