It Program Manager: Apollo; Hybrid

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You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

We are looking to hire an IT Program Manager immediately in a Hybrid (50/50) capacity at our Global Headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

This role is responsible for the overall enterprise planning, estimation, resourcing, budgeting and successful on-time execution delivery for McCormick technology portfolio global programs & projects. Acts as a liaison in the coordination with other portfolio programs/projects across the organization to proactively address dependencies and potential blockers.

Oversees all aspects of on-time & on-budget delivery execution in a release management model by managing project managers responsible for the projects within the program portfolio. This role requires demonstration of strong business and technical acumen and demonstrated ability to influence successful outcomes.

The Program Manager will work effectively in partnership and collaborate with key leaders from the multiple MKC business functions, process teams, Organizational Readiness team, Systems integration and other 3rd party partners and program leadership, among others. This role reports directly to the Director of PMO.

• Manages & coordinates day-to-day program management activities for a release to track, measures and report on timeline, scope and resources. Program Manager is responsible to make sure the standard program tools, processes and stage gate controls are met.
• Owns the Program/Release integrated workplan, Deliverables management, and manages dependencies and milestones across Release Work streams and Release critical path
• Very proactive identification and resolution of program risks and issues and cross functional dependencies, including dependencies with other programs/projects. Identifies and drives continuous improvement & learnings and facilitates rapid implementation & adoption.
• Report release health to program leadership and provide inputs in producing an accurate and timely reporting of program release status
• Oversight, development, communication and deployment of consistent project management best practices, including processes, tools and reports.
• Supports PMO in KPI and metrics generation, by ensuring accurate and timely data is provided by Release team.

• Coach and champion PMO ways of working, processes and tools
• Facilitate communication between PMO and work streams on integrated plan changes
• Serve as primary Program Manager for assigned release, partnering closely with systems integrator partners, Project managers, other program managers, workstream functional leadership, release & deployment leadership Release leads to drive execution & accurately capture and report on status
• Report release health to program leadership and provide inputs in producing an accurate and timely reporting of release status throughout its life cycle
• Maintain visibility into the Program Plan & Schedule for their assigned Release
• Responsible for predictable execution and delivery of assigned work streams project plans working with the release leads
• Implementing and managing changes and actions (i.e.. get to green plans) to ensure release milestones are achieved.
• Collaborate with other program manager and integration team to manage cross-functional RAIDx and Dependencies
• Collaborating with release organization readiness lead to make communication effective and transparent regarding release issues and decisions
• Support release resource management in coordination with PMO resource manager
• Facilitate communication between PMO and…