Strategic Growth Program Manager - Advanced Packaging

Qnity Electronics•Wimington, DE

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Qnity is seeking a highly driven Strategic Growth Program Manager to organize and lead a portfolio of enterprise-priority growth and incubation programs supporting the Advanced Packaging strategy. The role converts strategic opportunities into structured, executable programs, integrates work across businesses and functions, and establishes the operating rhythm, governance, and accountability needed to move promising opportunities toward commercialization. The Program Manager will define objectives, workstreams, milestones, decision points, resource requirements, dependencies, risks, and success metrics. The role provides transparent portfolio reporting and drives teams to resolve issues, make timely decisions, and deliver commitments. Success requires strategic thinking, disciplined execution, influential leadership, and the ability to operate in a global, matrixed organization and uncertain, rapidly evolving market. The preferred work location is hybrid at Qnity’s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware. Other locations will be considered, with particular interest in the Bay Area, Arizona, Taiwan, and locations aligned with Qnity’s footprint and the semiconductor and advanced packaging industry. The position reports to the VPGM of Qnity’s Advanced Circuits and Packaging business.

Requirements

Advanced degree in chemistry, materials science, engineering, or a related field.
At least eight years of relevant professional experience.
At least five years of program or project management experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
Experience managing complex, cross-functional growth, innovation, commercialization, and/or strategic transformation projects.
Record of converting ambiguous opportunities or strategic priorities into structured programs with measurable business impact or outcomes.
Experience organizing and managing enterprise-level programs involving multiple businesses, functions, workstreams, and senior stakeholders.
Strong command of program governance, integrated planning, milestone and dependency management, risk management, resource coordination, and action tracking.
Ability to develop executive reporting that distills complex information into clear progress updates, choices, risks, recommendations, and required decisions.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders, navigate competing priorities, and build alignment across global, cross-functional, and cross-business teams.
Excellent planning, organizational, facilitation, and executive communication skills, with attention to detail and follow-through.
Ability to distinguish assumptions from facts and focus learning on important uncertainties.
Ability to evaluate programs in terms of strategic fit, risk, return, capacity, and interdependencies, and to build compelling business cases.
Ability to encourage rigorous debate, enable clear decisions, and help teams develop creative solutions.
Ability to adjust direction as customer, market, technical, or economic evidence changes.
Experience working across global and culturally diverse teams.
Strong English communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Semiconductor and/or electronics industry experience.
Advanced packaging experience.
Experience with stage gate, lean innovation, and agile project management frameworks.
Six Sigma, PMP, PMI-ACP, or other project management credentials.
Korean and/or Mandarin language skills.

Responsibilities

Organize and lead a portfolio of enterprise-level strategic growth and incubation programs aligned with Qnity’s Advanced Packaging strategy, from opportunity framing through validation, scale-up, and transition to the receiving business.
Translate strategic priorities into integrated program plans with defined workstreams, owners, deliverables, milestones, decision gates, resource requirements, interdependencies, risks, and success metrics.
Establish and maintain a program management operating system, including governance forums, review cadence, action tracking, risk escalation, decision logs, and portfolio dashboards.
Drive alignment and execution across participating businesses and functions, including Marketing and New Business Development, Technology, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and business leadership.
Create accountability across workstream leaders, follow through on commitments, remove barriers, and escalate unresolved issues.
Deliver concise, decision-oriented executive reports and portfolio reviews communicating progress, business impact, risks, dependencies, resource needs, required decisions, and recommended actions.
Prepare programs and projects for persist, pivot, pause, accelerate, or stop decisions by synthesizing customer, technical, operational, financial, and market evidence.
Sustain momentum through ambiguity, competing priorities, and organizational complexity.
Build high-performing cross-functional working groups by establishing role clarity, accountability, constructive challenge, and rapid learning.