12Yrs Program Manager - Mast - Hybrid - Inperson interview
About The Position
The Program Manager will be responsible for managing relationships with stakeholders, managers, and key software and services vendors for the delivery of projects and programs. This role requires thought leadership and expertise in Software and/or Hardware system implementations, IT applications, and business and systems processes. The Program Manager will oversee daily project implementation, including defining deliverables, creating and monitoring sprints, project schedules, and backlogs. They will also assist with internal communications and resource management, aligning project objectives with stakeholder objectives. The position involves leading teams through all phases of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using both waterfall and agile methodologies. Key responsibilities include creating project plans, resource plans, program metrics, communication plans, and developing analytics. The role requires developing communication plans to keep business and executive stakeholders informed, identifying project and resource dependencies, and effectively communicating project status, actions, decisions, risks, issues, and schedules. The Program Manager will also prepare executive steering committee communications and direct, motivate, and collaborate with project team members to ensure timely task completion and high performance.
Requirements
- Significant experience (12+ years) managing and implementing concurrent separate initiatives of varying size.
- A minimum of four individual multi-year project implementation experiences.
- Previous success leading initiatives within an agile methodology environment.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge and success as a team leader: motivating teams to success by creating an atmosphere of trust while seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation; providing information and direction to less-experienced staff; coaching staff including providing timely and meaningful written and verbal feedback.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite, MS Project, MS Visio, Atlassian Jira/Confluence
Responsibilities
- Manage relationships with stakeholders, managers, and key software and services vendors for the delivery of projects and programs.
- Provide thought leadership and expertise for Software and/or Hardware system implementations, IT applications, business and systems processes.
- Manage the implementation of projects daily -- including defining deliverables as well as creating and monitoring sprints, project schedules and backlogs.
- Assist with internal communications and resource management as needed.
- Align project objectives with stakeholders' objectives.
- Lead teams through all phases of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using appropriate waterfall and agile methodologies and processes.
- Create project plans, resource plans, program metrics, communication plans and develop analytics supporting delivery of life cycle activities.
- Develop communication plans to ensure business and executive stakeholders are well informed and are provided with accurate information for status of managed initiatives and to support decision making.
- Identify project and resource dependencies and collaboratively work with team members to ensure the project schedule is followed.
- Effectively communicate project status, actions, decisions, risks, issues and schedule for the customer's project portfolio.
- Prepare executive steering committee communications as needed.
- Direct, motivate and collaborate with project team members to ensure the team is provided with clear and accurate information in a timely manner that will enable them to complete assigned tasks within set times, and to deliver to top performance.
- Other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
