Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager

Are you a seasoned program manager with expertise in handling high-risk, complex initiatives? Do you excel at strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement? Are you passionate about driving large-scale projects that significantly impact company goals? If yes, come join our team as a Senior Program Manager.

The Senior Program Manager will be instrumental in defining, documenting, and executing programs of extreme high risk, complexity, and visibility. This role will focus on overseeing multiple interconnected projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, and driving successful outcomes.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Program Manager, you will:

• Define and document program scope, objectives, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.

• Develop and implement comprehensive program plans, including risk assessments, feasibility studies, and statements of work.

• Produce and maintain program documentation, including detailed project plans, work plans, schedules, estimates, resource plans, and status reports.

• Determine appropriate program methodologies and agree on scope and constraints to estimate costs, timescales, and resource requirements.

• Identify, assess, and manage risks to ensure program success, implementing mitigation strategies as needed.

• Ensure program deliverables are demonstrably fit for purpose and align with organizational goals.

• Manage change control procedures, gaining agreement for revisions from stakeholders and ensuring the full impact of significant changes is understood.

• Monitor program performance, implementing corrective actions when costs, timescales, or resources deviate from agreed tolerances.

• Act as a communication liaison, ensuring all parties are aware of program scope, milestones, and progress.

• Highlight and address any divergence from program scope, adjusting as necessary to reflect changing circumstances.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Senior Program Manager if your background includes:

• 7+ years of experience in program management, preferably with high-risk and complex initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; master’s degree or PMP certification preferred.

• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, multi-faceted programs.

• Strong knowledge of program and project management methodologies and best practices.

• Excellent risk assessment, management, and mitigation skills.

• Experience in developing business cases and strategic planning for significant organizational initiatives.

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize effectively.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate and influence at all levels.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience in change management and scope control across multiple projects.

• Adaptability and resilience in the face of changing program requirements and organizational priorities.

• Self-starter mentality with the ability to work independently and lead cross-functional teams.

• Driven to provide high-quality work that meets and exceeds organizational standards.

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations.

For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $99,400 - $184,600.

This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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