Program Manager
The Senior Program Manager will have a passion for technology advisory, excel in navigating complex client environments, have a strong desire to deliver client objectives with best-in-class service, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Candidates should take the time to read all the elements of this job advert carefully Please make your application promptly.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide functional leadership and management oversight to strategic client program initiatives
- Maintaining the program budget and resource plan
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the overall program initiative, requirements, and objectives
- Work with internal team(s) and client to define tasks, responsibilities, and resource alignment
- Create, maintain, and facilitate project plans and schedules with clearly defined tasks, milestones, and target completion dates – leveraging client project management tools
- Design and own task board for all direct and indirect related workstreams
- Align project plans in master integrated plan structure for management of multiple workstreams utilizing agile, waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies
- Provide functional status report-outs to leadership and project teams including C-Suite
- Capture key information and decisions for organized reporting, tracking, and documentation presentation
Develop program management runbook including vendor management, lifecycle, end-to-end process flows, organizational assessment, etc.
Coordinate across client organizations at all levels of leadership to schedule sessions for discovery, planning, status, delivery, etc.
Establish program governance and communication plans
Develop project plan(s) and master integrated program plan
Coordinate and guide key technical solution and design decisions with all teams.
Understand work tasks and skills alignment of engagement team members
Interface with teams on potential collisions and blockers as identified and recommend solutions and maintain ownership
Provide overall leadership, guidance, and mentorship to client teams through program delivery work
Continuous integration and coordination among multiple workstreams and maintain alignment with other related and dependent programs.
Qualifications:
- Experience in Energy Value Chain is highly desired
- Industries with similar work for wholesale / retail sales workflows in a highly regulated environment will be considered – ex/ Healthcare, CRM workforce management
- Previous experience with AI transformational, software enhancement, software development and migration / transformation activities due to a merger / acquisition preferred
- Previous experience with large scale datacenter migration, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data migration or datacenter transformation programs nice to have
Experience working in an Enterprise organization of a large scale. xxoysbn Fortune 100-preferred.
Candidate should be comfortable operating at the intersection of IT/Business and the ability to communicate to C-Suite
Experience handing and reporting on large scale budgets of $30MMAzure Certification preferred
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred 10+ years of technical project management experience with a focus in large enterprise (F500) orgs
Background in infrastructure, application, platform technology, and/or technology management
Passionate about client engagement and creating demonstrable value for clients
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills
Excellent collaboration and skilled at leading teams through complex engagements
Organized and methodical; strong prioritization and multi-tasking skills
Operates with a propensity for thoughtful action and high output
Experienced in building relationships with IT executives and decision-makers
Self-starter and self-directed ability within a fast-paced working environment
Maintains a broad knowledge and understanding of the current and anticipated future of the technology industry including trends, technologies, products, services, and standards