Job Description

• Responsible for the planning, execution, and monitoring of a project.
• Program Managers ensure that projects are completed on time, within budget, and to high standards.

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities of this position are related to leading program management functions including tools and reporting, and process management.
• Some of the specific responsibilities of this role include:
• Maintaining on-going relationship with suppliers/vendors and conduct a cost-benefit analysis on all IT related projects in order to ensure maximum return on IT investment
• Defining and interpreting performance metrics in an effort to communicate program performance
• Identifying process and performance metrics improvements
• Serve as the overall subject-matter expert in Project Management knowledge areas
• Establish and maintain a program for monitoring and reporting on compliance to adopted PM standards
• Provide a program to ensure continued utilization and maturation of best practice PM standards and methodologies
• Help ensure growth and success by providing mentoring and training in the established processes, policies and procedures, as well as the tools and templates
• Facilitating program review meetings with IT leadership, including Solution Delivery teams
• Oversee the IT PM Processes related to process compliance and facilitate the change control process
• Oversee IT Analyst efforts to drive process compliance down to the program and project levels
• Oversee IT Tools and Reporting activities to configure and maintain the PPM tool
• Maintaining on-going relationship with suppliers/vendors and conduct a cost-benefit analysis on all IT related projects in order to ensure maximum return on IT investment
• Providing leadership to resolve technical errors or breakdown and providing valid solutions and recommendation so as to ensure all business operations runs smoothly
• Recommending information technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements
• Accomplishing financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective action
• Maintaining quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards
• Completing projects by coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center

Requirements:

• Years of experience -10+ years in a PM / PGM role
• Other - Expert in project management disciplines; Strong presence with leadership; Strong communication
• Management Skills
• Ability to prioritize issues across the programs in order to escalate to the appropriate level
• Ability to understand future impacts of identified issues and risks
• Ability to convey program performance and make management recommendations
• Provides direct, complete and "actionable” feedback to others, including those in management positions
• Sets clear measurable objectives and monitors progress and outcomes
• Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done
• Pursues everything with energy, drive and a will to finish
• Capable of making tough decision on a timely basis
• Software skills / Knowledge - general Microsoft applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Teams, Project)
• Other - PMP certification preferred

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in the field of business, accounting, computer science, or field with equivalent benefit