Senior Program Manager, Business Planning & Transformation (RapidScale)

RESPONSIBILITIES Serve as cross-functional day-to-day leader across complex transformation initiatives, providing strategic direction, maintaining alignment to intended outcomes, and mitigating scope creep or organizational drift. Lead enterprise-wide integration programs related to mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships, ensuring alignment with overall corporate strategy, operating model, and long-term business objectives. Conduct competitive, peer, and market benchmarking across RapidScale operating units to provide leadership with insight into relative performance, emerging trends, and potential areas for improvement. Partner closely with executive leadership to refine strategic priorities, translate high-level objectives into actionable programs, and support execution against key business initiatives. Establish governance structures, operating cadences, and executive reporting mechanisms for major enterprise programs and integrations. Coordinate and align workstreams across multiple functional teams and project managers, ensuring dependencies, timelines, risks, and decision points are effectively managed and escalated. Support long-term strategic refinement and identify gaps for future opportunities. Prepare to lead integration of future acquisitions, driving consistency in process. Track post-integration performance to ensure outcomes align with strategic goals. Prepare executive-level presentations, analyses, and communications to support strategic planning, operational reviews, management discussions, and enterprise initiatives. Develop and maintain a structured integration playbook to streamline future acquisitions and integration projects.

QUALIFICATIONS Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 6 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 3 years’ experience in a related field; or 12 years’ experience in a related field Requires strong knowledge leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives in complex or rapidly evolving organizations. Demonstrated ability to influence and drive alignment across teams and senior stakeholders without direct organizational authority. Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including experience preparing materials for senior leadership or boards. Preferred: Exceptional organizational, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities with strong attention to detail. Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, priorities, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. Strong financial and operational acumen, including ability to interpret performance metrics and benchmark against peers or industry trends. Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and related business productivity and analytics tools. Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations, or enterprise transformation initiatives preferred.

Benefits The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

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