Digital IT PM - Program Leadership - Program Manager

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Overview

The Program Manager is responsible for organizing programs and activities for the organization, developing programs to support the organization's strategic direction, creating and managing long-term goals, developing budgets, and operating plans for programs, and writing program funding proposals. The position will also uphold Prodapt's values and work in a way that contributes to the company's vision.

Responsibilities

• Program management, including organizing programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization, developing new programs to support the strategic direction of the organization, and preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information
• Budget development, including developing a budget and operating plan for the program, and writing program funding proposals to guarantee uninterrupted delivery of services
• Program evaluation, including developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement, conducting post-project evaluations, and analyzing program risks
• Stakeholder management, including obtaining customer acceptance of project deliverables, managing customer satisfaction within the project transition period, building strong relationships with existing clients for repeat business, maintaining frequent client communication, making regular client visits, and ensuring client satisfaction, and identifying and developing new opportunities with clients
• Team management, including managing a team with a diverse array of talents and responsibilities, ensuring goals are met in areas including customer satisfaction, safety, quality, and team member performance, and coordinating with cross-discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with program requirements, deadlines, and schedules
• Change management, including implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved and facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.

Requirements

• The qualifications required for the position include a Bachelor's degree (in any field) and work experience of 5-12 years
• Desired industry knowledge includes a record of delivery projects leveraging core PMI PMBOK Standards with expert proficiency
• Proven expertise in E2E project lifecycle process with intermediate proficiency
• Ability to train others on differences (incl. pros and cons) between different project methodologies with advanced proficiency.
• The required function/process knowledge includes being aware of business unit goals/strategies and changes, considering business/technical alternatives and recommending solutions that support the business unit requirements,
• Defining project/program scope, objectives, deliverables, costs, resources, and time frame, and negotiating project commitments with stakeholders.