Sr. Manager, Project/Program Management

Job description

At Alcon, we're passionate about enhancing sight and helping people see brilliantly. With more than 25,000 associates, we innovate fearlessly, champion progress, and act swiftly to impact global eye health. We foster an inclusive culture, recognizing your contributions and offering opportunities to grow your career like never before. Together, we make a difference in the lives of our patients and customers. Are you ready to join us? At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers. We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Senior Organizational Project Manager supporting Alcon R&D, you will help translate enterprise and R&D priorities into executable roadmaps, repeatable ways of working, governance routines, adoption plans, and sustained outcomes. This role is on-site in our Fort Worth, Texas location and a typical day would include: Supporting cross-functional strategic initiatives from vision through execution, implementation, adoption, and sustainment. Partnering with sponsors, stakeholders, functional leaders, and project teams to align scope, priorities, risks, resources, decisions, and execution plans across strategic initiatives. Creating and maintaining project charters, roadmaps, project plans, timelines, forecasts, budgets, governance plans, and decision materials. Driving fit-for-purpose project standards, stage gates, templates, dashboards, reporting routines, risk tracking, dependency management, and action follow-through. Facilitating governance forums, leadership updates, escalation discussions, and decision-making routines to enable transparent execution and practical rigor. Monitoring project performance against timing, budget, scope, adoption, risks, dependencies, and success measures; identifying tradeoffs that may impact broader organizational priorities. Designing and supporting communication, stakeholder engagement, change management, and adoption plans that help project teams move from alignment to execution. Establishing feedback loops, lessons learned, sustainment mechanisms, and continuous improvement opportunities that contribute to repeatable, scalable ways of working for the Strategic Programs Office. Supporting AI-enabled and digitally enabled transformation initiatives through intake, prioritization, governance, delivery cadence, decision rights, adoption metrics, capability building, and value realization. Role modeling/coaching project teams and stakeholders in practical project management, change management, continuous improvement, workflow redesign, and sustainment practices. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Formal project management, learning management or change management certification preferred (e.g., PMI, PROSCI, ATD). Direct experience supporting internally facing strategic initiatives, business transformation, operating model design, process improvement, integrations, reorganizations, or associate experience initiatives. Experience developing roadmaps, governance routines, adoption plans, dashboards, lessons learned, sustainment mechanisms, or continuous improvement practices. Experience supporting digitally enabled transformation initiatives, including workflow redesign, capability building, adoption measurement, and value realization. Certification in Lean Six Sigma methodology (e.g., Green/Black Belt) Experience within Medical Device, Pharmaceuticals or similar regulated industry What You’ll Bring to Alcon: Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent years of directly related experience (or high school +15 yrs; Assoc.+11 yrs; M.S.+4 yrs; PhD+3 yrs) The ability to fluently read, write, understand and communicate in English 7 Years of Relevant Experience 5 Years of Demonstrated Leadership How You Can Thrive at Alcon: See your career like never before with focused growth and development opportunities Join Alcon’s mission to provide outstanding, innovative products and solutions to improve sight, improve lives, and grow your career! Alcon provides a robust benefits package including health, life, retirement, flexible time off and much more. Travel - up to 5% Relocation - Yes (domestic) Sponsorship – No Alcon Careers See your impact at alcon.com/careers ATTENTION: Current Alcon Employee/Contingent Worker If you are currently an active employee/contingent worker at Alcon, please click the appropriate link below to apply on the Internal Career site. Find Jobs for Employees Find Jobs for Contingent Worker ALCON IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND PARTICIPATES IN E-VERIFY Alcon takes pride in maintaining an inclusive environment that values different perspectives and our policies are non-discriminatory in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. Alcon is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an email to alcon.recruitment@alcon.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.