Principal Program Manager-Services
Employer · Emerson
Strategy managerOther professional services manager
Business analystFull-timeDebrecen
The Global Services Offering Portfolio team is essential to Global Services and its strategy to simplify and converge service offerings. We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives that are often not fully defined at the outset, bringing structure to ambiguity and keeping business outcomes central.
Tasks
- Lead business transformation projects that improve Services operations, enable scale, and strengthen customer outcomes.
- Partner with leaders to translate strategic priorities into executable project plans, including scope, priorities, milestones, risks, and success measures.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects or workstreams while keeping priorities, dependencies, and next steps aligned.
- Bring structure to complex initiatives by clarifying decisions, ownership, timelines, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Provide leadership with clear status updates, actionable recommendations, and early visibility into issues requiring attention.
- Partner with cross-functional teams and external partners to drive process, system, and operating model changes from planning through launch readiness.
- Drive accountability for commitments, decisions, and deliverables across teams without direct reporting authority.
- Support post-launch adoption to ensure initiatives deliver the expected business value beyond implementation.
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- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience managing complex, cross-functional projects or programs in a global organization.
- Demonstrated experience translating business cases or strategies into project plans with clear milestones and measurable results.
- Facilitation skills to drive conversations that lead to decision-making, process/service design, scope definition, and achieving consensus between different stakeholder groups.
- Strong skills in project planning, risk management, facilitation, and executive communication.
- Experience driving change management and communications for owned initiatives at all stages and with different levels of audiences.
- Experience partnering with IT teams or external vendors on system or process implementations.
- Ability to identify gaps and provide feedback to project team members to achieve quality outputs.
- English language proficiency with effective oral and written communication skills.
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- Competitive benefits plans
- Variety of medical insurance plans
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee resource groups
- Flexible time off plans, vacation, and holiday leave
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- Workplace located in Debrecen