About The Position
The Sr Program Manager is a strategic individual contributor and the Business Planning and Financial Management lead for Apple’s Operations and IS&T project teams. Within the Project Management Office (PMO), the role leads annual business planning, portfolio prioritization, budget and financial management, and vendor and professional services management. The position supports Global Operations Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) and IS&T teams that build and maintain internal tools and systems used across supply chain, demand planning, retail fulfillment, payments, and reverse logistics. The role shapes how leaders plan, fund, and govern a multi-year, multi-million-dollar portfolio, helping direct limited resources toward the highest-return investments and presenting recommendations to executives. It owns financial reporting from individual projects through the full portfolio, quarterly resource and cost estimates against forecast, budget-efficiency efforts, vendor and contractor processes, headcount tracking, and executive-ready financial reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Economics, or a relevant field.
- 7 or more years of experience managing and leading business planning and portfolio prioritization for a large, complex organization.
- Background in financial management and vendor and professional services management.
- Deep understanding of project, program, and portfolio planning and delivery sufficient to set standards, propose policy, and mentor others.
- Working knowledge of financial and data systems sufficient to validate reporting accuracy.
- Proven understanding of end-to-end business processes in a manufacturing business, from sales through the supply chain.
- Ability to bring structure to one’s own work and the work of others.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
- Ability to personally drive large-scale initiatives under pressure and amid complexity and ambiguity.
- Experience leading and influencing without authority to drive business impact.
Nice To Haves
- MBA or master’s degree.
- Prior consulting experience with a Big 4 consulting firm.
Responsibilities
- Lead annual capital planning and multi-year road-mapping for multiple teams.
- Support leadership in directing limited resources to the highest-return investments and represent the organization in executive-level presentations.
- Own financial reporting from the individual-project level through the full portfolio.
- Drive budget efficiencies and manage quarterly resource and cost estimating against forecast.
- Manage the end-to-end vendor and professional services process, including SOW, PR, PO, and invoicing workflows.
- Track contractor allocation against approved budgets and validate financial and reporting data before it reaches leadership.
- Develop the organization’s financial narrative for senior leadership, including budget-risk call-outs and business cases for additional funding.
- Establish a review process to ensure deliverables are accurate and executive-ready.
- Manage headcount tracking and new requisition processing in support of the broader portfolio.
- Set standards, propose policy, and mentor others in project, program, and portfolio planning and delivery.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
