Senior Associate Project Manager

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us?

Alcon is looking to hire a Senior Associate Project Manager team member. In this role you will Coordinate defined projects or significant workstreams and apply core project management practices with moderate guidance. Establishes reliable plans and controls, facilitates team execution, and provides clear visibility into schedule, cost, risk, decisions, and actions.

This role is on-site in our Lake Fores, CA location and a typical day would include:

• Develop and maintain an integrated project or workstream plan with milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and resource assumptions.
• Drive routine execution cadence, action closure, and schedule updates with cross-functional partners.
• Analyze variances and coordinate recovery actions with guidance from senior PM or project leadership.
• Facilitate risk and issue reviews and maintain mitigation, contingency, decision, and change records.
• Maintain forecasts, actuals, accrual inputs, and resource information; identify and explain variances.
• Prepare concise status and governance materials that clearly identify decisions required and execution impacts.
• Facilitate focused team meetings and planning sessions.
• Build credibility through reliable follow-through, transparent communication, and accurate project data.
• Apply PM standards and contribute lessons learned and process improvements.

What You’ll Bring to Alcon:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)
• The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English
• 2 Years of Relevant Experience

How You Can Thrive at Alcon:

• See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities
• Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!

• Alcon provides a robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off and much more.
• Travel - up to 10%

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Compensation and Benefits

Alcon’s Total Rewards programs are designed to align incentives with business objectives, support our values, and deliver long-term value. Our compensation approach includes a combination of fixed and variable pay, with short-term and long-term incentive opportunities for eligible roles. Our benefits offerings are designed to support associates and their families across key life events, including programs that promote health and well-being, provide financial security, and support retirement planning.

The salary range posted represents the anticipated hiring range for this role. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, skills, location, and internal equity, and may fall outside the posted range.

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Alcon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. Alcon takes pride in maintaining a diverse environment and our policies are not to discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.