Senior Project Manager, Strategic Programs

The Sophos Office of Strategic Programs (OSP) is a centralized, crossfunctional execution engine designed to turn company strategy into results by leading Sophos’ most critical, enterprisewide initiatives with clarity, speed, and accountability. OSP oversees programs that span three or more business units—such as M&A, product lifecycle management, commercial simplification, OKRs, and strategic partnerships—aligning stakeholders, translating executive goals into actionable plans, and driving disciplined, transparent execution. The team also facilitates key company meetings, manages strategic tools and partnerships, develops highimpact executive materials, and serves as an unbiased connector across functions to ensure alignment, operational excellence, and measurable business impact. 

We seek passionate Program Managers and Senior Program Managers who thrive on taking initiative to lead cross-functional projects spanning product and service delivery, business development with Sophos partners, and internal system improvements. This role involves management of the full project lifecycle from initial concept through launch and post-launch support. You’ll be interfacing with internal and potentially external constituents that you will need to influence and lead. Requires the ability to manage and adjust resources, processes, schedules, financials, and quality while adhering to control guidelines throughout the full project life cycle. Flexibility to adapt to issues, risks and change requests is necessary to ensure successful and on-time project delivery within budget constraints. You will also identify and help define process improvement initiatives. The ability to collaborate and define deliverables and roadmaps for project execution with other departments is a top priority. You will also verify that the program/project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the benefits defined in the business case.

• Ability to lead programs and complex projects and demonstrates the ability to turn around challenging programs or projects of any size. 

• Provide leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones. 

• Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment for one or more program initiatives in addition to minor initiatives simultaneously. 

• Prepare estimates and detailed project plan for all phases of the project. 

• Accountable for all Portfolio / Program / Project communication and operation reviews. 

• Work with the resource managers to procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives in planned timeframes. 

• Lead the team in gathering and documenting detailed requirements and success criteria to ensure the project is scoped correctly and ultimately successful. 

• Manage the day-to-day project activities and resources to meet the project objectives. 

• Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership. 

• Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues. 

• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables 

• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, Executive Leadership, and key stakeholders. 

• Demonstrate leadership by identifying project management training needs and be able to provide training required to ensure the effective application of project management and leadership principles.   

• Tools: Project management tools, OKR management tools