Job Title: Program Manager
Location: Buffalo, NY
Employment Type: Contract (12 months)
Industry: Banking
Compensation: $65.00 /hr.
Schedule: 40 hrs/Week.
About the Opportunity:
- Manages assigned staff (on a direct and indirect basis) on multiple related projects and ongoing operations directed towards a common objective and affecting three or more businesses or functional areas.
- Manages changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, reflective of authorized project changes as defined in the change management plan, and facilitate customer acceptance.
- Manage multiple related projects and ongoing operations impacting three or more businesses or functions.
- Ensure familiarity with scope and project objectives and establish clear roles and responsibilities for project team members.
- Work with constituent project managers to monitor cost, schedule, and technical performance.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
This role offers the opportunity to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while providing you with room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider- we help companies compete for talent. With experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and design talent solutions that deliver the business outcomes they want. We draw on decades of experience to provide contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Develop a project plan, forecast, and schedule.
- Work with stakeholders to record detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions to establish project deliverables, using requirements-gathering techniques (planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups) and the project charter.
- Ensure plans for assigned projects include work breakdown, project organization chart, cost/budget and communication, risk, quality and resource plans.
- Ensure execution of tasks defined in the project plan to achieve the project goals.
- Execute all parts of the project plan and manage the budget/forecast.
- Monitor and control project work including change controls.
- Measure project performance utilizing appropriate tools and techniques to monitor progress; identify and quantify variances, complete any needed corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
- Address program issues by identifying and selecting a course of action by taking into account program constraints and objectives to enable continued program success.
- Implement approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project risk events.
- Improve project team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training and motivating to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency and boost morale.
- Determine and coordinate sharing of resources among constituent projects for overall program benefit.
- Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite.
- Design, implement, maintain and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.
- Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
- Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the client brand.
- Maintain client internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
- Complete other related duties as assigned.
- Exercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management and terminations.
- Responsible for coordinated management of multiple related projects and ongoing operations impacting three or more businesses or functions; responsibility for the projects includes all aspects from initiation to close.
- The role and responsibility of each team member in effectively coordinating team activities
What You'll Bring:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in project management.
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in program management.
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in stakeholder management.
What Sets You Apart:
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Master's Degree.
- Strategic thinking.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification.
- Familiar with system scope and project objectives.
- Proficiency with personal computers as well as pertinent software packages.
- Good knowledge of project management methodology.
- Good verbal and written communication skills, particularly an ability to negotiate, influence and gain consensus.
- Regularly communicates verbally and in writing with executive management on status of initiatives, professionally and understandably.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work individually as well as a member of a team.
- Self-motivated, results-driven and well-organized individual.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and work under time constraints in support of various assignments.
- Ability to function professionally at many different levels (clients, management and peers).
- Good interpersonal skills necessary for business partner relationships within and outside the organization.
- Ability to build mutual trust and encourage respect; open to diverse points of view.
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Jul 02, 2026