Sr Program Manager
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Primary duties and responsibilities
- Own and maintain the integrated program delivery plan, translating commitments into milestones, deliverables, owners, and acceptance criteria.
- Connect product introduction, qualification, supply readiness, and production-ramp milestones to customer schedules, including transfers where applicable.
- Track delivery commitments, drive corrective action, and resolve priority or resource conflicts, escalating tradeoffs as needed.
- Run weekly strategic-customer reviews covering commitments, delivery performance, risks, recovery plans, and required decisions.
- Maintain consolidated program health and risk views, including backlog, delivery, qualification readiness, dependencies, and revenue at risk.
- Prepare executive updates and decision materials and provide timely status and risk communications to leadership.
- Lead delivery-process improvement initiatives and coach team members in planning, risk management, and escalation.
Education and experience
- Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field.
- 5 to 10 years of program or project management industry experience and a record of successful on-time program delivery.
- Experience leading complex technology programs across multiple businesses, functions, or geographies.
- Experience with hardware development, qualification, and production ramps.
Additional qualifications
- Strong integrated planning, dependency management, risk assessment, and recovery execution capability.
- Able to influence without direct authority, resolve competing priorities, and lead culturally and technically diverse teams across regions.
- Cross-functional initiative leadership, including coaching or mentoring experience.
- Executive presence and ability to explain customer impact of technical and operational issues.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, including use of data and analytics.
- Optical line system and coherent modem/pluggable technology knowledge is a strong plus.
Working conditions
- Hybrid role; remote work is possible, but on-site work is preferred.
- Occasional overtime and flexible work hours may be needed to accommodate global cross-functional teams.
Company
Coherent develops lasers, engineered materials, and networking components for industrial, optical communications, and other markets.
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