Program Manager

Solventum · Bengaluru

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Job Description:

Program Manager

3M Health Care is now Solventum 

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.  

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you. 

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role 

 
As a Program Manager, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. You will operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and execution, partnering with senior leaders and diverse global teams to translate strategic objectives into executable plans, navigate complexity, and deliver meaningful business outcomes. Here, you will make an impact by: 

• Leading complex, global, cross-functional IT strategic programs from strategy through execution by developing integrated project plans, linking execution activities to business objectives, and ensuring milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and outcomes are actively managed

• Applying broad IT delivery experience and structured problem-solving to address non-routine and difficult program challenges, assess options, interpret complex information, and drive practical solutions across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups

• Driving strategic alignment and execution across interconnected workstreams, proactively managing cross-program dependencies, competing priorities, risks, resource constraints, and critical decisions to keep programs focused on intended business outcomes
• Serving as a trusted thought partner and providing decision-ready recommendations to PMO and IT leadership by synthesizing program health, trade-offs, risks, financial/resource impacts, stakeholder considerations, and escalation needs into clear executive-level communications

• Influencing internal and external stakeholders across IT functions, vendors, and business partners to align priorities, manage differing perspectives, remove barriers, and maintain execution momentum without direct people-management authority 
• Managing conversations with senior stakeholders across IT and business, driving decision-making, and ensuring timely progress

• Connecting business priorities with technology execution by developing a strong understanding of the technology landscape, recognizing interdependencies across platforms and functions, and helping teams navigate the business and technical implications of blockers, scope decisions, and solution choices

• Establishing strong program governance and execution discipline, including stakeholder governance & cadence, charters, integrated plans & roadmaps, RAID and dependency management, decision tracking and financial oversight

• Foundational understanding of IT financials (costing, budgeting, actuals tracking) 

• Supporting US and EU stakeholder collaboration enabling effective program governance, leadership updates, and cross-time-zone execution

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires at a minimum the following qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline and 9+ years of experience in IT Consulting, IT project management, program management, technology delivery, PMO, IT transformation, business analysis, or related information technology roles. 

In addition to the above requirements, the following are also required: 

• Demonstrated experience leading complex, business critical IT projects or programs across multiple workstreams, functions, locations, vendors, or stakeholder groups, with accountability for project plans, outcomes, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and decision tracking. 

• Proven ability to translate strategic objectives into integrated project plans & roadmaps that connect program activities to business objectives, stakeholder needs, delivery goals, and measurable outcomes. 
• Strong strategic thinking and structured problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, evaluate alternatives and trade-offs, anticipate downstream impacts, and develop practical recommendations for leadership
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior IT and business stakeholders, facilitate difficult conversations, create alignment across competing priorities, and drive timely decisions without relying on direct authority 

• Strong understanding of program governance and delivery disciplines, including integrated planning, roadmap management, RAID management, dependency management, resource planning, executive reporting, and decision governance

• Hands-on experience with program delivery, reporting, and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Power BI, Microsoft Office Suite, and Jira 

• Flexibility to collaborate with stakeholders across the US and EU and work effectively across time zones 

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include: 

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline 

• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, Smartsheet, Power BI, or related project/program management certification. 

• Experience leading enterprise-scale transformation or strategic technology initiatives in a matrixed enterprise environment. 

• Experience supporting strategic IT programs across more than one IT domain, such as applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, digital, ERP, M&A, separation, or business technology. 

• Experience providing consulting assistance to senior management, preparing leadership-ready recommendations, and presenting program updates to department heads, functional leaders, or business stakeholders. 

• Skills include structured problem-solving, project leadership, executive communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, planning, negotiation, adaptability, ownership mindset, and disciplined execution. 

 Work location:  

• Hybrid Eligible  

Domestic Travel: May include up to 20%

 Supporting Your Well-being  

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.  

Diversity & Inclusion 

(*) We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, civil status, disability, family status, or membership of the travelling community.Not on a global job description.

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