Expert Program Manager
Company: TriMark
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Why you’ll love it here! Benefits include Medical, Dental,
Vision, Tuition Reimbursement, Pet, and Legal Insurance 401k
Community Service Day Spotlight Awards National Sales Excellence
Awards CFSP Prep Certification ProgramPOSITION SUMMARY: The Expert
Program Manager reports to the Director, PMO & Governance Located
in Bedford Park, Chicago, IL Full-Time-initial travel up to 75%
through the Midwest and East Coast Hybrid The Senior Program
Manager is responsible for organizing and driving the success of
the ERP and enterprise applications initiatives. Working
cross-functionally with a broad set of business partners, the
program manager is the interface between different stake holder
groups and is comprehensively responsible for the program
management of large-scale complex ERP and related transformational
programs with significant impact on business process. This position
will have specific focus on supply chain/procure to pay ERP
processes and new growth integrations at enterprise scale. The
program manager will provide oversight of the enterprise portfolio
of programs (ERP) in addition to providing an overview of scope,
timelines and overall progress. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS &
RESPONSIBILITIES: Program management for the enterprise
applications project portfolio Frequent travel being onsite with
new location implementations Drive integrated planning, release
readiness, and cross-workstream coordination with workstream leads
and business SMEs to enable predictable delivery outcomes Manage
compilation of schedule, status, and metric updates at project and
team levels; report appropriately to all levels of governance
including executive Lead program updates and status calls Provide
program-level oversight of risks, dependencies, issues, actions,
decisions, and changes, ensuring early escalation and proactive
mitigation of delivery impacts Establish and govern quality
management frameworks to ensure delivery integrity, solution
readiness, and alignment with strategic business outcomes. Project
management interface between business/stakeholders, technical and
functional teams Influence across global, cross-functional teams
and senior leaders to drive alignment, accountability, and results
Provide consolidated executive reporting across projects/products
(Dashboard level reporting). Includes providing insights and
actions to deliver to our strategic objectives Act as the liaison
between IT, business operations and finance for the product and
project financials Consolidated financial management across defined
groupings of projects/products including managing the program’s
budget on behalf of the IT Executive sponsor, monitoring
expenditure and costs against delivered and realized benefits as
the program progresses Work with other managers to coordinate
resources and other interdependencies within and across service
lines Work with Solution Leads and Project Managers to identify and
communication release roadmaps for each work stream Focus upstream
and downstream of execution to measure if projects and initiatives
realize anticipated benefits Continuous process improvement
initiatives Partner with major vendors and service providers to
ensure they cost-effectively meet the needs of the organization
Partner with customer’s IT teams to ensure alignment of technology
solutions and the secure exchange of data QUALIFICATIONS &
EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field Project
Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMI PMP or
PgMP) is a plus 10 years of ERP work experience 7 years of
program/project management including KPI reporting on financials,
risk and vendor management 7 years’ experience in supply chain or
related industries Experience with large system program
implementations, integrations and conversions (Oracle/JD
Edwards/NetSuite/SAP). Experience with large, finance-impacting
systems transformations/ implementations (Oracle/JD
Edwards/NetSuite). Experience managing across varied business and
technical stakeholder groups and maintaining key relationships
Experience in change management and guiding organizations through
complex transformations Previous experience in driving improvements
with standards Experience with opportunity analysis and driving
process standardization Financial and business acumen Ability to
successfully pass a background check post offer acceptance
Keywords: TriMark, Orland Park , Expert Program Manager, IT / Software / Systems , Chicago, Illinois
