Enterprise Strategic Program Management Principal

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The Enterprise Strategic Program Management Principal serves as a thought leader and consultant, overseeing a collection of strategic programs across various domains. This role is responsible for identifying innovative opportunities that drive progress within the P&L and ensures the right level of rigor and visibility is provided for desired outcomes. This role will also specialize in influencing business decisions using a fact-based approach, taking new ideas from concept to execution, and successfully communicating with senior leaders.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Independently manages day-to-day oversight for large scale projects; facilitates problem solving and escalates risks and issues.
  • Owns and drives comprehensive program plans including defining goals, objectives, and requirements.
  • Responsible for the valuation of initiatives and applying the appropriate amount of rigor related to value.
  • Drives program management and operating model standards to ensure solid execution and accelerated delivery.
  • Develops reports and presentations to share insights and provide ongoing line of sight to program progress and outcomes including executive visibility to risks, roadblocks, successes, etc.

Minimum Education

Bachelor’s Degree/equivalent in business administration or related discipline.


Minimum Experience

Five to eight (5-8) years of experience in program management or project management in a business environment with demonstrated ability to lead large, complex projects and programs and build professional rapport.


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Excellent analytical, organizational, and planning skills
  • Strong human relations and communications skills
  • Understanding of business management and operational supply chain management
  • Strong executive presence and experience working with leadership
  • Previous experience at a business strategy consulting firm is considered a plus.

Preferred Skills:

  • Stakeholder Management - Experience working with Finance leaders, IT teams, and executive stakeholders
  • Finance & FP&A Knowledge - Budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, finance transformation
  • Systems Implementation - Examples: SAP, Oracle, Workday Adaptive, Power BI, etc.
  • Project Delivery - Planning, execution, risk management, issue resolution, governance
  • Reporting & Analytics - BI, dashboards, KPI reporting, data transformation initiatives
  • Requirements & Process Improvement - Business requirements, process redesign, workshop facilitation
  • Remote Team Leadership - Leading distributed teams and managing cross-functional workstreams

This position is eligible for remote work and may be located anywhere within the United States excluding AK, HI and U.S. territories, however if you live within the 50 miles radius of a campus you will be required to work at a FedEx campus location several times per week.


US Pay Range: $8,007.29 - $18,149.85 monthly



Minimum Education

Bachelor’s Degree/equivalent in business administration or related discipline.

Minimum Experience

Five to eight (5-8) years of experience in program management or project management in a business environment with demonstrated ability to lead large, complex projects and programs and build professional rapport.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Excellent analytical, organizational, and planning skills
  • Strong human relations and communications skills
  • Understanding of business management and operational supply chain management
  • Strong executive presence and experience working with leadership
  • Previous experience at a business strategy consulting firm is considered a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

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Pay Transparency:

The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location or locations.  If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the ranges for each level in that job family. Actual pay is determined by several job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, including, but not limited to, experience relative to the job, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. In California, the compensation listed reflects the range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position upon hire.


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