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This role owns overall program success, including customer trust, operational execution, financial performance, margin protection, risk management, and long-term growth credibility.Serving as the primary face to the customer after kickoff, this leader partners closely with Sales, Commercial, Solution Development, Finance, Legal, and Operations to strengthen the broader customer relationship and ensure alignment from pursuit through delivery. While some pre-award decisions may already be established for the program, this role has full lifecycle ownership-from solution shaping and customer commitments through execution, commissioning, closeout, and lessons learned.\nThis role requires a leader who can operate at both strategic and execution levels-building executive customer relationships, driving daily accountability, removing barriers, managing escalations, and providing program leadership and oversight to assigned Senior Project Managers and cross-functional teams. The role is critical to establishing the organization’s credibility as a trusted partner for enterprise-scale, mission-critical customer programs.\nWe offer:\nCareer Development\nCompetitive Compensation and Benefits\nPay Transparency\nGlobal Opportunities\nLearn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer/\nDematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.\nThis policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.\nThe base pay range for this role is estimated to be $153,000 - 224,400 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.\nTasks and Qualifications:\nKey Responsibilities:\nEnterprise Program Leadership:\nLead the planning, governance, execution, and delivery of a single enterprise-scale customer project ranging from $250M to $500M in total scope.\nInfluence the program across the full lifecycle, including pre-award solution shaping, scope definition, risk identification, pricing assumptions, customer commitments, execution planning, delivery, commissioning, closeout, and lessons learned.\nServe as the senior accountable project leader for overall program success, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, commercial outcomes, and margin protection.\nBalance executive-level oversight with hands-on involvement in execution details, issue resolution, change control, and daily/weekly program management cadence.\nComplex Project Execution & Governance:\nEstablish disciplined program governance, including executive steering routines, customer governance, escalation paths, decision forums, and clear accountability across workstreams.\nDirect integrated program planning, including schedules, work breakdown structures, resource plans, budget forecasts, risk registers, dependency maps, and recovery plans.\nDrive hands-on execution by proactively resolving risks, constraints, scope changes, contractual issues, customer conflicts, and delivery gaps while providing oversight and escalation support to assigned Senior Project Managers.\nCustomer & Executive Stakeholder Management:\nServe as the primary customer-facing leader after kickoff, building trusted relationships with senior operations, supply chain, technology, finance, procurement, and C-suite stakeholders.\nRepresent the organization in customer meetings, executive business reviews, steering committees, negotiations, escalations, and strategic alignment discussions.\nAlign stakeholders across the full value chain and influence decisions through credibility, business acumen, data-driven analysis, executive presence, and clear communication under pressure.\nCommercial, Financial & Risk Ownership:\nOwn program-level financial performance, including budget management, forecasting, margin protection, cash flow awareness, change order discipline, financial risk mitigation, and executive-level reporting.\nPartner with commercial, legal, procurement, and leadership teams to support contract interpretation, claims prevention, change management, vendor performance, and customer negotiations.\nDevelop mitigation and recovery strategies for schedule slippage, cost pressure, resource constraints, supplier risk, technical issues, and customer-driven scope changes.\nContinuous Improvement & Organizational Capability:\nCapture lessons learned from enterprise-scale programs and translate them into improved governance, delivery models, tools, templates, and operating standards.\nStrengthen project management capability by coaching project leaders, reinforcing best practices, and modeling the leadership behaviors required for complex customer delivery.\n\nSkills & Capabilities:\nExecutive presence with the credibility to engage customer executives, internal senior leadership, steering committees, and board-level stakeholders.\nProven ability to lead enterprise-scale, high-value, multi-year programs with significant operational, financial, technical, and customer complexity.\nStrong hands-on project leadership, with the ability to move seamlessly between strategic decision-making and detailed execution management.\nCommercial acumen and financial discipline, including budget ownership, forecasting, margin protection, change order management, cash flow awareness, and ROI focus.\nAdvanced stakeholder management, negotiation, conflict resolution, and influence skills across customers, suppliers, partners, project teams, and senior leaders.\nAbility to lead through ambiguity, pressure, competing priorities, and high customer expectations while maintaining focus, accountability, and delivery discipline.\nDeep understanding of program governance, risk management, issue resolution, change management, executive escalation, and decision-making processes, with the ability to hold Senior Project Managers and workstream leaders accountable for results.\nStrong technical and operational orientation, including an understanding of complex automation, material handling, software, controls, installation, commissioning, service considerations, and the tools required to manage large cross-functional programs.\n\nExperience & Education:\nMinimum of 15+ years of progressive project, program, or delivery leadership experience, including large-scale, complex customer programs.\nProven track record leading enterprise-scale programs of $250M+; 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