Senior Manager Agile Program Management

PUBLICIS GROUPE•Houston, TX

27d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Agile Program Manager at Publicis Sapient, you will partner with clients undertaking major digital business or engineering transformation engagements. You will work within a cross-functional, globally distributed team to lead the planning, estimation, and delivery of client projects and programs.

Requirements

Experience within Retail domain is preferred
Good understanding/knowledge/exposure of QA/QE concepts.
Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with all levels of the organization to achieve broader insights into managing work streams and outcomes
Capable of earning trust and influencing stakeholders without formal authority to required results
Proficient with collaboration tools including Atlassian Jira and Confluence, and Microsoft Office applications
Flexible, collaborative, and able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously to maintain teamwork and optimal project flow
Experience managing and contributing to sales proposals by collaborating and negotiating with multi-disciplinary teams to shape a cohesive delivery approach, team shape, and cost estimates to deliver transformative value driven proposals
Experience working with Agile delivery methods like Scrum and Kanban, waterfall and hybrid systems
Experience leading teams to implement digital technologies such as atomic and responsive design, experience management platforms, cloud platforms, DevOps, AI and Data Platforms

Nice To Haves

Experience in writing, reviewing, and finalizing statements of work
Scrum, Product or SaFe Certification
Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, React, or Swift
Relevant experience at a digital agency or consultancy leading cross functional, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences

Responsibilities

Plan, document, and implement the optimal team structure (roles, people, expertise) to ensure high-quality delivery, exceeding client expectations and achieving established goals
Lead teams to successfully deliver customer experience and engineering solutions leading to client business value
Identify and realize business outcomes through the use of the most suitable and effective project management approach, methods, processes, and tools to ensure a high degree of delivery and solution quality
Support clients' business objectives by delivering experience and engineering solutions, including experience management, ecommerce, customer data, cloud, and microservice platforms
Enact lasting changes to the client's ways of working by utilizing a consultative approach that focuses on defining and measuring customer value delivered at each milestone
Organize and lead ongoing team planning sessions to identify key risks, issues, and dependencies across workstreams
Optimize delivery within a project or program through insights and mitigation strategies for project risk management
Guide internal leaders and external senior stakeholders on program delivery methods ceremonies and protocols to streamline and structure workflow to deliver timely results
Articulate and manage engagement commercial metrics including client outcomes, leakage, burn rate, revenue and margins, etc. to support account health and account-level planning within the industry vertical