Program Manager - Business Process And Continuous
About The Position
This Program Management position will be part of Volume and Scale Pricing Frameworks Team, shaping future technology strategy and driving cross-product and federal-level initiatives. We are looking for a program manager to help lead programs or projects involving departmental and cross-functional teams focused on delivering new systems and infrastructure capabilities. In this highly visible role, the program manager will help drive alignment across multiple cross-functional teams to meet key business objectives and milestones. The program manager will provide strategic program management by working with a broad set of partner organizations (Pricing Operations, Pricing Technologies, Engineering Development, Quality Assurance, and cross-functional Program Management). The candidate will also be responsible for designing and refining a set of standardized, repeatable portfolio management processes to tackle complex, cross-company initiatives and drive execution. This position will have a 45-day probationary period.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Strong program and project management skills, demonstrating a collaborative mindset
- Experience leading transformation programs, define and establish program structure and governance frameworks
- Ability to handle complex, highly cross-functional projects with highly matrixed environment
- Ability to work with technical teams - can help translate business requirements into technical requirements
- Ability to be flexible, adaptable, and think quick on your feet given the fast change in business needs
- Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, and ability to develop positive relationships
- Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills with the ability to appropriately communicate with the intended audience, especially executives
- Excellent documentation skills
- Quick learner and proactive in solving problems
- System tool knowledge: SharePoint, Jira, MSFT Office, SAP, Workfront, and Pricing Tools a plus
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to build strategic roadmaps, transforming into execution plans and delivering against business objectives and milestones.
- Performs project planning to establish an overall project plan, including key milestones, and drives progress to achieve the project plan within time constraints.
- Understand and coordinate the sequencing of projects to make progress.
- Understands and assesses critical paths and dependencies for delivering projects and facilitates discussions between project teams, Pricing Ops, Pricing Technologies, and Engineering.
- Performs risk management duties by identifying and analyzing risk management controls and contingency plans to help increase the probability of positive events for the project.
- Aggregates, organizes, and synthesizes program and project information to communicate with the extended team and management
- Resolve misalignments across requirements, priorities, and schedule.
- Evaluates existing processes and procedures. Makes recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.
- Drive release management activities to ensure the successful deployment of system capabilities.
Benefits
- NextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees
- Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence
- Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match)
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Career Level
Manager
