{"id":350496,"url":"https://alion.io/job/alcon-senior-associate-project-manager","title":"Senior Associate Project Manager","company":{"id":5809,"name":"Alcon","domain":"alcon.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/alcon","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":30,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.3,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":26,"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"junior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Lake Forest, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":64000,"max_usd":127000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":677},"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-16T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-16","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T03:34:49Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":44,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":44},"description":"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?\nAlcon 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.\nThis role is on-site in our Lake Fores, CA location and a typical day would include:\nDevelop and maintain an integrated project or workstream plan with milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and resource assumptions.\nDrive routine execution cadence, action closure, and schedule updates with cross-functional partners.\nAnalyze variances and coordinate recovery actions with guidance from senior PM or project leadership.\nFacilitate risk and issue reviews and maintain mitigation, contingency, decision, and change records.\nMaintain forecasts, actuals, accrual inputs, and resource information; identify and explain variances.\nPrepare concise status and governance materials that clearly identify decisions required and execution impacts.\nFacilitate focused team meetings and planning sessions.\nBuild credibility through reliable follow-through, transparent communication, and accurate project data.\nApply PM standards and contribute lessons learned and process improvements.\nWhat You’ll Bring to Alcon:\nBachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs)\nThe ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English\n2 Years of Relevant Experience\nHow You Can Thrive at Alcon:\nSee your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities\nJoin Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career!\nAlcon provides a robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off and much more.\nTravel - up to 10%\nAlcon Careers\nSee your impact at alcon.com/careers\nATTENTION: Current Alcon Employee/Contingent Worker\nIf you are currently an active employee/contingent worker at Alcon, please click the appropriate link below to apply on the Internal Career site.\nFind Jobs for Employees\nFind Jobs for Contingent Worker\nCompensation and Benefits\nAlcon’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.\nThe 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.\nPay Range\n102,850.00 - 133,100.00Pay Frequency\nAnnualAlcon 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. 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