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Program manager - Piscataway, United States - Accord Technologies Inc
Description
Title:
Program Manager
Location:
Piscataway, NJ
Duration: 6-12 months
No of positions: 4
Visa:
Any visa independent candidate.
Experience level: 10+ years.
Job Description - Program Manager
The Program Manager will be responsible for managing enterprise-level programs within the Enterprise
Technology portfolio. This individual will work closely with various Project Managers, Product Owners to
define the project team and assign responsibilities. The Program Manager will also be responsible for
developing a consolidated view of the program, and for program deliverables including calendars, cross-
project dependencies, risk analysis, stakeholder coordination, and regular communication of status.
Primary Responsibilities Include
Guiding process development at a Program team level and managing high-risk,
high-impact, strategic projects across a multi-disciplinary, multi-function group of technologists and business
professionals. This requires experience communicating across audiences, effectively defining, and utilizing
escalation paths, and updating executive stakeholders.
Job Duties
Program and Project Management Delivery
Accountable for driving execution and delivery of moderately complex projects or programs from
start to finish
Demonstrates a clear understanding of the program's vision, objectives, scale, and scope of work,
expected outcomes, business value and impact, timelines, roadmaps, resource level requirements
Establishes strong partnerships and engagement with Program or Project Stakeholders
Create full-scale master program and project schedules and communication plans consisting of
multiple projects or components
Creates governance practices and protocols to control and monitor the program/projects
Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones, and deliverable tasks
Establish program and project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense plans
Actively participates in process and practice improvements in the project management environment
and serves as a catalyst for project management excellence
Provides management oversight, aligns and leads cross-functional and international project teams to
ensure critical day-to-day program/project deliverables progress forward to deliver specified
requirements, objectives, and value
Identifies gaps in the project team's accountability and ownership of deliverables
Fosters a team environment of self-organization, retrospect to learn and adapt with the goal of
delivering the highest value to our guests and cast
Drives escalations to remediate risks/blockers impeding vendor's forward progression, as necessary
Financial Management
Responsible for finance/budget responsibilities for programs of high complexity and large budgets
Analyzes, measures, and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions, participate in
analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues, and maintains budget tracking and
monitors budget expenditures
Status Reporting
Prepares program/project status reports to demonstrate project overall health, key performance
indicator (KPI), risk, issues, accomplishments, next steps, and escalation requests
Proactively identifies and resolves issues and risks on programs/projects to meet program
commitments
Supports executive-level project status presentations and dashboards
Creates data visualization elements to provide a graphic demonstration of project analytics and metrics
Communication
Leads with practicality and wisdom during competing priorities and diverse personalities. Operates as
an independent and dynamic program leader. Highly adept at influencing without direct authority
Facilitates Program updates and project team meetings effectively, ensuring the desired outcomes are
achieved
Distributes timely and effective Program or project meeting updates and call-to-action updates across
project teams
Demonstrates effective communication skills to facilitate project-related conversations with
technology senior leaders/managers/directors and service owners alike, and driving tasks and project
dependencies to completion across multiple supporting teams
Escalates need for guidance and support to direct manager effectively
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