Program Manager

Company introduction:

• Our client is a Software Industry, MNC.
• Job Title: Program Manager
• Location: Beijing, Shanghai
• Employment Type: full-time

Key responsibilities

Program Strategy & Leadership:

• Lead China market development and transformation programs from initiation through delivery, ensuring alignment with regional and global strategic objectives.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to define program goals, success criteria, roadmaps, milestones, and resource plans.
• Drive clarity across people, process, and technology dimensions of large-scale initiatives.

Governance & Operating Model:

• Establish and run robust program governance structures, including steering committees, working groups, and escalation paths.
• Define roles, responsibilities, decision frameworks, and cadence to ensure transparency, accountability, and timely decision-making.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise transformation standards, financial controls, and reporting expectations.

Financial Planning & Performance Management:

• Own program budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking across China initiatives.
• Establish and operationalize financial and program management toolsets to support cost tracking, resource allocation, and performance reporting.
• Analyze variances, risks, and trends; proactively recommend corrective actions.

Market & Stakeholder Alignment:

• Act as a central coordination point across China leadership, sales, marketing, R&D, finance, and global transformation teams.
• Ensure market-specific needs, constraints, and opportunities are incorporated into program scope and execution.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and maintain consistent, effective communication at all levels.

Program Execution & Delivery:

• Drive end-to-end program delivery, ensuring initiatives meet defined scope, quality, budget, and schedule commitments.
• Monitor progress against milestones and KPIs; remove obstacles and enable rapid issue resolution.
• Ensure dependencies across teams and initiatives are actively managed.

Process, Tools & Capability Buildout:

• Lead the deployment and adoption of program and financial management processes and tools across China initiatives.
• Define and document operating processes; support training, change adoption, and continuous improvement.

Risk, Change & Quality Management:

• Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks; implement contingency and mitigation plans where required.
• Drive structured change management to ensure adoption of new ways of working.
• Implement quality assurance practices to ensure deliverables meet agreed standards.

Value Realization & Continuous Improvement:

• Measure initiative outcomes versus baseline to validate value realization.
• Capture lessons learned and best practices to continuously improve program execution and impact in China.
• Promote a results-oriented, continuous improvement culture within program teams.

Essential requirements

• 5 years of experience in program management, transformation, business planning, or operational leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a global or matrixed organization.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and performance measurement.
• Demonstrated ability to establish governance, operational processes, and reporting frameworks from the ground up.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification highly desirable.
• Fluent in Mandarin and English.

Desired skills

• Experience supporting market entry, localization, or market development initiatives in China.
• Background in industrial software, engineering software, enterprise platforms, or complex B2B environments.
• Hands-on experience with program management, financial planning, and reporting systems.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into executive-level insights.
• Ability to operate effectively across cultures, time zones, and organizational boundaries.
• Strategic thinker with a pragmatic, execution-driven approach.

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