Program Manager II

Role Overview

• Provides oversight and direct leadership on multiple concurrent projects/programs of varying size up to and including enterprise transformational initiatives within multiple portfolios and/or LOBs at any given time
• Influences and leads large-scale change initiatives
• Key contributor in developing financial realization measures
• Evaluates investment opportunities to meet strategic objectives and optimize the program or project portfolio
• Plans and coordinates closely with LOB/function managers and subject matter experts
• Works closely with, and provides direction to technology leads to support program needs
• Ensures that program activities are on a path to deliver benefits realization
• Installs an appropriate risk management plan for the program and ensures adherence to company and unit requirements
• Proactively challenge the performance of current systems and processes and identifies risks and develops solutions and/or processes and ensures necessary risk mitigation steps are built into the processes
• Readily recognizes solution and determines at what point issues require escalation to management
• Leads teams or multiple teams of internal and/or external resources on a project basis
• Provides project-related performance evaluations on project resources
• Analyzes and collectively manages variances to the program plan and overall portfolio and makes recommendation and/or creates action plan to mitigate negative variances or to resolve issues
• Prepares dashboard reporting to identify and communicate the health of the project portfolio for use by key executives

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Ten years progressive related experience in either a consulting, project management or process improvement related role
• Strong skills and experience in issue resolution, influencing team members and other stakeholders, conducting difficult negotiations and managing to stringent timelines for project deliverables
• Demonstrated superior understanding of business and technology organization, resources, priorities, needs and policies
• Demonstrated leadership in the implementation of complex programs and projects
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous assignments
• Demonstrated executive level verbal and written communication skills
• Superior working knowledge of business matters, finance, planning, and forecasting
• Strong skills in MS Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Visio, Project)

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• disability
• accidental death and dismemberment
• tax-preferred savings accounts
• 401k plan
• vacation
• sick days
• paid holidays