Senior Digital Program Manager
About The Position
As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. The Senior Digital Program Manager will lead Thermo King Digital products to market through structured stage gate and Agile development processes. You will ensure new products meet specific customer requirements, program goals, timelines and budgets. A key deliverable is to follow best practices and drive teams towards project execution. This position is eligible for a Hybrid work schedule (4 or more days onsite a week) and will be based out of our Minneapolis, MN location.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Business (or similar technical discipline) and at least 7 years experience in project management, product management, or product development is required.
- Experience leading & managing New Product Development or Agile programs is required.
- Experience managing large programs from concept to production.
- Exceptional leadership skills with the ability to drive program specific issues and goals to closure.
- Tenacity in driving program team members to meet or exceed program timelines and outcomes.
- Knowledge of software development project metrics.
- Business and financial acumen, and experience in business case development and scenario planning.
- Proven ability to integrate business, marketing, and technical elements of a new product development program, including anticipating issues and driving countermeasures and issues to closure.
- Self-starter with a desire to make a significant impact on the product development process.
- Courage to raise issues to upper management when a program is at risk.
- Good verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Proven experience leading cross functional teams.
- Experience with project management software.
Nice To Haves
- PMP Certification strongly preferred.
- Experience with IoT applications, telematics, or electrical sensor hardware is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Works closely with management and business leaders to create program scope, objectives and risk assessment.
- Works closely with Product Managers, Tech Leads, and Product Owners to ensure requirements align with program objectives
- Anticipates issues and drives countermeasures to ensure programs meet intended objectives.
- Directs and coordinates activities of program personnel to ensure programs progress on schedule and within budget while meeting established customer requirements.
- Resolves people and team dynamic issues for the effective performance of the program team in completing their assignments.
- Manages intra-program dependencies and their interrelationships, and their impact upon other programs and projects.
- Drives the planning and implementation of multiple programs across the organization
- Works with team to implement and continuously improve the Trane Technologies Product Development Processes.
- Must be able to travel up to 10%.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives
- Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
- Paid time off includes up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
- 401K match up
- Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
