Program Manager, Services Strategy - Santa Clarita, United States - CDW
Description
The Program Manager is responsible for the development, delivery, and management of service offerings within the Professional and Managed Services business segments for CDWs Services division. The role will coordinate with the Heads of Services Strategy & Development Portfolios and own the collective lifecycle of offerings and roadmap within the Service Development Framework.
Join CDW Canadas Strategy & Services Development team, and youll be at the nexus of the future of technology services at CDW; somewhere with flexibility, ongoing education, and opportunities to grow your career. Your innovative outlook and strong desire to learn will ensure we keep up with the latest practices, ideas, and trends in modern work.
A Fortune 200 leader, CDW is the trusted resource and technology expert that Canadian companies turn to most to solve all their information technology needs. Our customers rely on us to identify, implement, and maintain the technology that drives them forward, and know when they do business with CDW, they arent just getting cutting-edge technology solutions, theyre gaining a trusted Microsoft 365 Cloud Consultant.
In this role, youll have the option to work remotely or at the CDW Canada office closest to you.
What youll do
The Program Managers primary function will be to optimize our ability to execute on aggressive growth of our Services division within Canada. There are two delivery teams within services (Professional and Managed) as well as four Service Portfolios (Workspace, Cloud Native, Hybrid Infrastructure and Security). The Services Strategy & Development team is accountable for the Portfolios, which align the product offerings with Professional and Managed Services to ensure that CDW maintains effective and efficient services that are in demand and meet customer values and objectives. The combined Service Offering development pipeline will include developing standardized Professional Services and developing and managing Managed Services within the CDW Managed Platform. This role will own the gated Service Development Framework.
Work with Heads of Services Strategy & Development Portfolios to qualify development opportunities through the Service Development Framework
Own the decision-making framework to ensure services in development and currently in General Availability meet success criteria.
Develop, execute and maintain the Service Development Roadmap
Work with Business Analysts, Product Managers and Technical Architects throughout the Service Development lifecycle
Deep understanding how technology consulting and services are evolving and develop strategies to future proof our services practice.
Coordinate with the Service Portfolio Managers and Product Managers to ensure services under consideration and in development meet corporate objectives for service success
Work with Customer Success, Business Analysts, Product Managers and Technical Architects to ensure quality throughout the service development lifecycle.
Develop trusted partnerships with the Heads of Services Strategy & Development Portfolios, delivery leadership and broadly across the organization to provide a platform for effective and efficient service offering development:
Proactively work with Marketing, Integrated Technology Solutions, Sales and Product teams throughout the development process
Act as central point for collecting feedback and managing our strategy for the development or enhancement of our tools, resources, reporting and process improvements to support the following priorities:
Successful and profitable delivery of services
Maximization of use of standardized services within the sales and solution architecture teams through data gathering and offering refinement
Scale the reach and execution of our Integrated Solutions proposition including managing the creation of marketing and offering materials that speak to the larger CDW services value proposition.
Seek and implement ways to maximize efficiency through processes, tools and reporting
Competitive research and analysis to optimize our offerings and competitive strategy
Proactively partner with peers within CDW and across partner organizations to execute on priorities.