Job Title: Program Manager

Location: Lehi, UT 84043

Duration: 10 months

Contract Type: W2 only

Pay Rate: $65.14/Hour

Job Responsibilities

• Provide program management skills to lead teams to deliver a high-quality, impactful solution to create a Talent Marketplace that enhances client’s organizational agility by efficiently matching employees with critical business initiatives.
• Establish well-defined project objectives and success metrics in collaboration with sponsors and stakeholders to ensure alignment with talent goals.
• Use client’s proprietary design thinking framework to lead the team to conduct discovery and define experiences of users to design innovative and effective solutions for a diverse set of problems and opportunities related to client’s talent.
• Define project scope, requirements, DACI / roles and responsibilities
• Manage the project plan, including governance, risk management, and metrics.
• Lead, coordinate, engage and motivate project team and resources to gain alignment on project goals and deliverables and drive consistent delivery on commitments
• Manage project teams, which may include client, third-party vendors, and/or consultants
• Coordinate with project team, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure parties are on track with project requirements, schedules, and milestones
• Maintain regular and transparent communication with key stakeholders through status reports, updates, and meetings to keep everyone informed about progress, risks, and changes.
• Proactively manage and resolve project roadblocks and issues
• Accountability for the successful delivery of the project and its deliverables
• Conduct retrospectives and identify continuous improvement opportunities

Required Skills

• 5+ years project management and/or management consulting experience with a solid background of project delivery.
• Experience in applying Design Thinking methodology to optimally drive solutions that tackle business problems keeping the internal customer at the heart of your project.
• Manage large-scale projects that drive process, people, and /or technology transformation
• Proven success in managing delivery of large projects or programs with VP/C-Level visibility in a variety of challenging environments
• Experienced in driving user adoption and acceptance within highly complex people, process, and /or technology initiatives
• Ability to accurately identify root cause of gaps or deficiencies and recommend best practice ways to address them
• Experience working in a large enterprise environment on projects centered around talent management and Workday
• Excellent communicator - written, verbal, and in presentation.
• Understand organizational change management basics and how to leverage it alongside program management.
• Keen problem solver and connector.
• Certified in project management methodologies.