Program Manager

Core Responsibilities

• Lead & drive large-scale, complex DT projects, showing up with a proactive, entrepreneurial, demonstrating a strong sense of urgency and ownership, as if you were investing your own money in the project’s results.
• Understand and support the Strategic Vision of the organization and ensure strategic alignment as a trusted advisor.
• Foster trust and build collaborative relationships with digital and functional executive sponsors, ensuring a deep understanding of their strategic interests & viewpoints.
• Ability to seamlessly navigate the political landscape amongst senior leaders in the function and DT.
• Oversee all the normal PM fundamentals: project schedule, key decisions, resources, financials, requirements, issues, risks, dependencies.
• Drive the project’s delivery cadence and maintain momentum and accountability, blending agile & waterfall techniques as needed.
• Continuously demonstrate progress, provide status reports/briefings.
• Create compelling materials to effectively communicate with senior/executive leaders the value delivery story for the project.
• Efficiently shepherd your projects through our phase-gated project governance framework.
• Maintain the team’s focus on critical cyber, architecture, and compliance artifacts and secure relevant approvals at each gate.

• Must be a US Citizen Typically a university degree and 10 years prior relevant experience OR an Advanced Degree in related field and minimum 7 years’ experience OR in absence of a degree, 14+ years of relevant experience is required
• 5+ years of experience with Program Management oversight of DT software development or infrastructure initiatives.
• 5+ years of proven experience managing large scale projects involving complex enterprise systems, such as ERP, SAP, Data Repository, or Engineering systems.
• 5+ years of a demonstrated ability to interface and collaborate with concurrent Enterprise projects, managing dependencies, resources, and schedule.
• 5+ years of experience building and managing schedules in Planview

• Experience working in a government and/or large, complex corporate/industrial environment.
• Expert in creating visually appealing, executive-level PowerPoint presentations.
• Experience developing & managing SAP Integration projects
• Experience with integrating multiple project methodologies including waterfall & Agile frameworks like SAFe.
• Project Management certification (PMP, etc.), Scrum Certification and SAFe or similar agile certifications.