The Sr. Program Manager, IT role provides strategic leadership, guidance and subject matter expertise to assigned areas of IT. This role acts as a main point of contact, communicating effectively with senior management, clients and across Munich Re to act as a strong advocate and steward for the GSI Enterprise Delivery. The Sr. Program Manager role calls for an innovative manager with a clear vision who is willing to take risks, delegate efficiently and negotiate effectively on behalf of GSI Enterprise Delivery to obtain results. The Sr. Program Manager has a broad effect across Munich Re from an organizational perspective and leverages the role through positive, productive interactions across various levels and partnerships within Munich Re IT and operational business units. The Sr. Program Manager strategically oversees a staff of both internal and contract employees, providing innovative direction, timely coaching, planning and project objectives to the team. Additionally, this role provides financial management expertise by developing program budgets and ensuring that all work falls within the guidelines of the approved budgets. The Sr. Program Manager for GSI Enterprise Delivery will be responsible for the delivery of solutions that span the GSI business units. The role includes understanding the GSI IT strategy and ensuring a solid cost effective solution that can be used and maintained at a cost effective price across the desired GSI operating business units. The Sr. Program Manager will be accountable for building strategic partnerships within GSI and GSI IT, leveraging IT capabilities. In addition, the scope of this function includes delivery for domain analysis & design, application development & testing, release planning & deployment, and application maintenance & production support.