Strategic Program Manager

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Position Description

Position Summary

The Strategic Program Manager will sit at the center of NRE's strategic planning function, translating executive vision into actionable plans and ensuring the company's growth initiatives are scoped, prioritized, and positioned for success. Reporting to the Chief Strategy & Shared Services Officer, this role is responsible for shaping NRE's growth agenda through strategic planning and analysis while simultaneously driving cross-functional programs from concept through completion. The ideal candidate operates equally well in the boardroom building a business case as well as in the field and office ensuring an initiative delivers measurable results.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Analysis

• • Lead NRE's strategic planning process, including annual and multi-year planning cycles, goal-setting frameworks, strategic road mapping, and executive offsites.
  • Lead and conduct market research, competitive analysis, and industry benchmarking to identify growth opportunities across the electrical utility and infrastructure sectors.
  • Build business cases for strategic opportunities and initiatives.
  • Monitor industry trends, regulatory developments, and policy shifts that affect NRE's strategic positioning.
  • Support evaluation of potential partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions, or other inorganic growth opportunities as they arise.
  • Prepare executive-level presentations, board materials, and strategic briefings that synthesize complex data into clear recommendations.

Program Execution and Cross-Functional Leadership

• • Develop and maintain the company's strategic initiative portfolio, prioritizing and sequencing programs based on impact, feasibility, resource requirements, and risk profile.
  • Build and manage detailed program plans, timelines, budgets, and risk registers for each strategic initiative.
  • Coordinate across divisions and departments (operations, finance, business development, transformation, and shared services) to drive alignment, assign ownership, and remove obstacles.
  • Collaborate with the transformation office on change management efforts associated with strategic initiatives, engaging teams at all levels in design and adoption.
  • Track initiative performance against strategic KPIs/OKRs and report progress to the leadership team on a regular cadence, providing data-driven recommendations for course corrections.
  • Identify process improvement opportunities that surface during program execution and translate them into scalable operational gains.
  • Ensure all programs comply with applicable regulatory requirements, including safety standards, state licensing requirements, and government contracting obligations.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Position Requirements

Qualifications

Required:

• • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field
  • 7+ years of progressive experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, program management, or a related function, preferably in construction, electrical, utility, or infrastructure industries
  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, with the ability to build compelling, data-driven business cases
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs with significant budgets from concept through delivery
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with comfort presenting to C-suite and board-level audiences as well as communicating effectively with field personnel
  • Proficiency in project management and data analysis tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, or equivalent)

Preferred:

• • Master's degree (MBA strongly preferred)
  • PMP, PgMP, or equivalent certification
  • Background in management consulting (e.g., McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Deloitte, or similar)
  • Experience in the electrical utility construction or energy infrastructure industry
  • Experience working within an ESOP-structured or privately held company

Competencies:

• • Strategic Acumen: Ability to identify market opportunities, assess competitive dynamics, and connect day-to-day execution to long-term business goals
  • Analytical Rigor: Comfortable building models, stress-testing assumptions, and grounding recommendations in data
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to influence, align, and drive accountability across teams without direct reporting authority
  • Executive Communication: Skilled at distilling complexity into concise, compelling narratives for senior audiences
  • Results Orientation: Track record of delivering programs on time, on budget, and to specification while balancing thorough analysis with a sense of urgency
  • Adaptability: Comfortable operating in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities and field conditions
  • Mindset : Ownership mindset consistent with NRE's employee-owned (ESOP) culture

Travel

Regular travel is required, including periodic visits to regional offices, project sites, and other locations nationwide.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, talk and hear. The employee is required to sit at a desk and work on a computer for prolonged periods of time.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of the Company not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or status as a veteran, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, and other terms and condition of employment.