IT Program Manager - Newark, United States - Voya Financial

Voya Financial

Verified Company

Newark, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Together we fight for everyone's opportunity for a better financial future._

We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues.

We will fight for others, not against:
We will stand up for and champion everyone's access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enoughwe believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.

Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action.

We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued.

We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work.

Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.

Get to Know the Opportunity:

The Contributions You Will Make:

Accountable to business sponsor(s) and management to drive delivery of quality solutions tied to clearly understood business problem(s) and benefit(s)
Establishes strong working relationship and trust with senior leadership; comfortably shares perspective and insights.
Strong critical thinking and strategic thought leadership skills are required; understands that leadership and people skills are critical success factors.
Deliver project/program/portfolio objectives ontime, with quality, within scope and budget, in order, to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations.
Develop, manage, monitor, and report on all project, program, and/ or portfolio tasks, activities, controls, deliverables, and reports; and/or provide management and oversight for a business or IT portfolio.
Demonstrated ability to be disciplined and flexible at the same time.
Promote early awareness, communication, transparency and mitigation planning of critical dependencies, risks, and issues within project.
Provide input into business strategies and direction that determine and shape projects.
Supply accurate project estimates and tightly manage project budget, approved funding, forecasts, and actuals.
Ability to understand and articulate what is critical and what is noise; keeps team focused on the priorities.
Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Voya delivery methodologies, standards, and tools
Look for and champion opportunities to reduce cost and improve efficiency while delivering on all commitments.
Demonstrated ability to drive simplified solutions to complex problems to enable positive outcomes.
Influences and inspires without control; selfaware; applies good judgement; leads with passion; strong team building skills; sets positive tone; easy to get along with and at the same time commands respect; demonstrates courage.
Demonstrated ability to create open environments conducive to freely share information and ideas; listen and effectively communicate with clarity and precision.
Effectively, clearly and concisely communicate in all methods (verbal, written, presentation) to all levels of the organization.
Exercise independent and fair consensus building skills when conflicts arise.
Anticipate and head off problems that can jeopardize delivery, budget, customer readiness, and customer acceptance
Adapts quickly to and effectively manages changing environment and personal/organizational dynamics
Proactively identifies, communicates, and manages a holistic view of project/program milestones including dependencies and impacts across projects/programs/portfolio.
Manages to business outcomes to ensure customer expectations are met and program goals are achieved.
Remove barriers to enable project team to complete objectives no matter how difficult.
Proactively coach and mentor members of the PM community across the enterprise
Work with a high degree of autonomy

Knowledge & Experience:

4 year college degree or equivalent work experience preferred.
Leading understanding of project management principles
Expert knowledge of a project lifecycle
Proficiently utilize current project and/or portfolio planning, reporting, and support tools
Proficiently develop, manage, monitor, and appropriately report on programs, projects, portfolio and/or project tasks and controls.
Develop business case, understand it thoroughly, and continually monitor projects or programs against it to ensure benefit realization.
Continuous learner; quickly adapt to changing environment and personalities.
Experience interacting with and influencing senior members of management.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills required.
Health Solutions experience is Preferred.

LI-KS2

Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya