Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Builders FirstSource is hiring a Principal Program Manager to lead complex, enterprise-wide IT transformation programs from strategy through execution, adoption, and value realization. The role partners with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to align roadmaps, drive accountability, support executive decisions, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Leads enterprise strategic programs and cross-functional initiatives from strategy through execution, operational readiness, adoption, and value realization. Serves as a trusted advisor to IT Delivery Leadership and brings structure, transparency, and forward momentum to complex transformation priorities
- Establish integrated delivery strategies, governance, milestones, and operating rhythms for complex enterprise transformation initiatives
- Drive execution across multiple concurrent business and technology workstreams, ensuring dependencies, risks, decisions, and commitments are actively managed
- Maintain an integrated view of program critical path, organizational readiness, major dependencies, and barriers to successful delivery
- Hold workstream leaders accountable for commitments and proactively drive corrective action when execution is at risk
- Anticipate delivery challenges and resolve issues before they require executive escalation
- Partner with executive and senior leadership to translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps, priorities, investment decisions, and measurable outcomes
- Facilitate alignment across business, technology, deployment, change management, support functions, and external partners
- Identify and resolve organizational friction, competing priorities, and cross-functional dependencies that impede execution
- Connect program priorities and investments to enterprise strategy and expected business value
- Provide concise analysis, recommendations, scenarios, and briefing materials that enable timely executive decisions
- Maintain visibility into significant program decisions, unresolved issues, dependencies, and required executive actions
- Frame complex issues into clear decisions, options, trade-offs, recommendations, and consequences
- Drive strategic decisions to conclusion and ensure resulting actions and commitments are executed
- Escalate issues requiring executive intervention while driving program-level resolution at the appropriate organizational level
- Establish mechanisms that maintain alignment across solution delivery leadership, business stakeholders, functional towers, and supporting teams
- Ensure strategic priorities, decisions, risks, dependencies, and commitments remain visible across leadership and delivery organizations
- Facilitate cross-functional leadership discussions needed to resolve competing priorities and execution barriers
- Drive follow-through on commitments resulting from Solution Leadership and Executive Leadership decisions
- Develop executive-level communications that clearly articulate program progress, accomplishments, risks, decisions, business impacts, and strategic direction
- Translate complex technology and transformation topics into clear business implications and executive-level narratives
- Partner with organizational change management and communications teams to maintain consistent messaging across stakeholder groups
- Ensure reporting emphasizes outcomes, decisions, emerging risks, and required actions rather than activity reporting alone
- Lead strategic initiatives and special projects on behalf of IT Delivery Leadership
- Drive initiatives spanning multiple programs, functional towers, delivery workstreams, or organizational boundaries
- Assess organizational effectiveness, transformation readiness, adoption, operating-model effectiveness, and value realization
- Develop business cases, investment recommendations, transformation roadmaps, and materials for executive strategy discussions
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, governance, organizational structures, technology practices, and ways of working
- Establish measurable outcomes and success criteria for strategic programs and initiatives
- Connect program milestones and technology deliverables to business outcomes, adoption, operational readiness, and expected value
- Identify when delivery activity or technical completion is not translating into intended business results
- Partner with business and technology leaders to develop corrective actions when expected outcomes are at risk
- Proactively identify systemic risks, cross-program dependencies, critical decisions, and organizational constraints
- Drive ownership and resolution of risks and issues rather than relying primarily on escalation
- Ensure material risks include clear ownership, mitigation actions, decision points, and business implications
- Provide leadership with early visibility into emerging risks and potential impacts to strategic outcomes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, experience, and relevant certifications
- Typically 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in program leadership, transformation, strategy, consulting, technology delivery, business operations, or related disciplines
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale enterprise transformation or technology programs with more than eight concurrent workstreams
- Demonstrated experience supporting and interacting with C-suite, EVP, SVP, or major transformation leaders
- Demonstrated success operating in complex, matrixed organizations and driving accountability without direct authority
- Experience translating complex issues into executive decisions, recommendations, and actionable follow-through
- Experience managing cross-functional dependencies, risks, priorities, and organizational challenges from strategy through value realization
Benefits
- Annual bonus, subject to changes in plan design and documents and applicable law; eligibility and amount vary based on overall company success, thresholds met, and the terms and conditions of the Company’s active bonus policy for the respective year.
- Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance plans.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- PTO, including paid sick time.
- 8 paid holidays per year for salaried and hourly team members.
- Professional development through training, tools, and technologies.
Company Overview
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