Lead Program Manager - Digital

Sonepar Management Group (SMG) supports our Sonepar brands (i.e. operating companies) in the US through a shared services model. These services include, but are not limited to: human resources, finance, digital enterprise, supply chain, vendor relations, marketing, legal, and communications. The SMG teams enable our brands to do business in their local regions while taking advantage of the scale and collective resources of a global enterprise.

SMG fosters an inclusive and supportive culture. We offer leadership and development programs to help you reach your career goals. Our associates share in our collective achievements, and we firmly believe that Sonepar is “Powered by Difference.” By driving technology and innovation, enabling paths to success, and caring about our people and their families, we have built a workplace where you can build a fulfilling career.

At Sonepar, we are committed to powering progress for our customers, associates, and communities. As we continue to advance our digital capabilities, we are seeking an experienced Lead Program Manager - Digital to lead complex, cross-functional programs that enable our strategic business and digital priorities. This role offers the opportunity to work across technology, digital, business, and functional teams to translate strategic priorities into coordinated programs that deliver measurable business value.

Core Responsibilities 

The Lead Program Manager - Digital coordinates a portfolio of related projects toward shared strategic and business outcomes. This position will typically oversee 2-5 interconnected projects, managing cross-project dependencies, risks, resources, budgets, and governance across multiple teams and stakeholders. The Lead Program Manager will support executive and steering committee decision-making while ensuring programs remain aligned with strategic objectives, adoption goals, and expected business benefits. Programs managed by this role will generally include budgets ranging from $2 million to $10 million.

Key Accountabilities

Program Planning & Integration

- Define and maintain integrated program scope, strategic outcomes, roadmaps, workstreams, milestones, governance structures, and success measures across multiple related projects.
- Translate strategic business and digital priorities into executable program plans.
- Establish clear program objectives, deliverables, dependencies, decision points, and accountability.
- Partner with project managers, product leaders, technology teams, business stakeholders, and functional leaders to maintain alignment throughout the program lifecycle.
- Ensure individual projects collectively support the intended program outcomes and broader organizational strategy.

Cross-Project Dependency Management

- Proactively identify and manage dependencies across projects, workstreams, teams, systems, and business functions.
- Monitor shared resources, risks, issues, assumptions, and critical decisions across the program.
- Facilitate resolution of cross-functional challenges that could impact timelines, scope, budget, or expected outcomes.
- Develop mitigation and contingency plans for significant program risks.
- Escalate material issues and decisions appropriately while providing leadership with clear recommendations and options.

Governance & Steering Committee Support

- Establish and facilitate effective program governance routines and leadership reviews.
- Prepare steering committee materials, executive updates, decision requests, risk summaries, and program-level reporting.
- Maintain program decision logs, escalation paths, action items, and key governance documentation.
- Present complex program information in a clear, concise, and decision-oriented manner to senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Ensure leadership has appropriate visibility into program health, dependencies, risks, financial performance, and business outcomes.

Benefits Tracking & Value Reporting

- Establish mechanisms for tracking expected program benefits and business outcomes.
- Partner with business owners and stakeholders to monitor adoption, operational impact, financial benefits, and other agreed-upon success measures.
- Maintain visibility into benefits realization throughout program execution and after key implementations.
- Identify gaps between expected and realized value and work with stakeholders to develop appropriate corrective actions.
- Develop program-level reports that clearly communicate progress, accomplishments, outcomes, and value delivered.

Budget & Resource Coordination

- Coordinate program financial planning and manage budgets generally ranging from $2 million to $10 million.
- Monitor forecasts, actual expenditures, resource requirements, and financial risks across program workstreams.
- Partner with project leaders, Finance, Digital and Technology teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to maintain financial visibility and accountability.
- Identify resource constraints and provide recommendations regarding priorities, sequencing, capacity, and trade-offs.
- Support business cases, investment decisions, financial forecasts, and program-level budget reporting as required.

Qualifications

Experience

- 8-12 years of project and/or program management experience, including demonstrated 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.
- Demonstrated 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.

Education

- 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.
- Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification or demonstrated progression toward program management certification preferred.
- Change management certification, such as Prosci, or Agile certifications such as Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI-ACP, or SAFe, are preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

- Strong program and portfolio management capabilities with the ability to manage multiple interconnected initiatives.
- Excellent executive communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed organization with multiple business and technology stakeholders.
- Strong financial acumen, including program budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, and benefits realization.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve complex dependencies, risks, and organizational barriers.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on business outcomes and measurable value.
- Ability to influence stakeholders and drive decisions without relying solely on direct authority.
- Strong organizational skills with the 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.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and change while maintaining focus on strategic objectives.

Preferred Experience

- 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 working within distribution, electrical distribution, wholesale, manufacturing, supply chain, or other complex multi-location organizations is preferred.

Salary Range: $135,000 - $150,000 with 20% Target Bonus

Work Environment
This position is based in Broomfield, Colorado and operates on a hybrid work schedule. The Lead Program Manager - Digital is expected to work three days per week in the Broomfield office, with the flexibility to work remotely two days per week, based on business needs. The position will require regular collaboration with leaders, project teams, business partners, and stakeholders across Sonepar and its family of brands with up to 20% travel required. 

What Success Looks Like

Success in this role means:

- Strategic digital programs consistently deliver against their agreed objectives, milestones, budgets, and business outcomes.
- Cross-project dependencies and risks are identified early and actively managed.
- Executive sponsors and steering committees receive timely, accurate, and decision-ready information.
- Program investments demonstrate clearly defined and measurable business value.
- Business, Digital, and Technology stakeholders remain aligned around priorities and outcomes.
- Program governance enables faster decisions, greater accountability, and improved execution.
- Programs move beyond delivering projects to delivering measurable adoption, benefits, and sustainable business results.

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Sonepar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

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