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Program Manager (Public Sector focus)

Cognizant Singapore
Posted 1 day ago Permanent Competitive

Program Manager (Public Sector focus)

Cognizant Singapore
Role Summary

We are sourcing an experienced Program Manager to lead an end-to-end digital transformation program, onsite in Singapore, for a confidential public sector end client. The role owns program governance, stakeholder management, delivery execution, risk management, and go-live success across multiple workstreams and service lines. This is a client-facing leadership role requiring strong executive presence and delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own overall program delivery and governance for the transformation program.
  • Drive executive reporting and steering committee reviews with client leadership.
  • Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations across the program.
  • Lead cross-functional teams spanning application delivery, infrastructure, quality assurance, DevOps, and business teams.
  • Manage planning, estimation, release management, cutover, and go-live activities.
  • Coordinate with client stakeholders, partner vendors, and offshore delivery teams; own delivery reporting.
  • Track and report on schedule, scope, budget, quality, and overall delivery health.
Required Qualifications & Experience
  • Extensive, demonstrated experience leading large-scale enterprise transformation programs, with a track record of program ownership at a senior/leadership level.
  • Proven ability to manage executive-level client stakeholders and steering committees.
  • Strong command of Agile delivery and release management practices.
  • Demonstrated experience planning and estimating across multiple parallel releases.
  • Hands-on ownership of risk, issue, and dependency management at program level.
  • Experience managing cutover and go-live activities for multi-release programs.
Good to Have
  • Experience managing multi-technology integration programs with cross-team/cross-vendor collaboration.
  • Exposure to business process management (BPM) or workflow automation platforms such as Appian or similar.
Core Competencies
  • Strong executive presence and stakeholder credibility.
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
  • High ownership, strong team management, and delivery focus.
Key Success Metrics (for candidate evaluation)
  • Track record of on-time delivery of program milestones.
  • Demonstrated success in go-live and stabilization phases.
  • Strong risk and dependency management experience.
  • Evidence of high client/stakeholder satisfaction in prior engagements.
  • History of delivering business and transformation outcomes.
Job ID  00070031311
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