changing lives.
The Senior Program Manager creates, manages and drives detailed planning and execution of a set of enterprise programs and/or projects, on time and within budget and scope. This position will be located in ouroffice.
In this role, you will…
- Oversee multiple transformational projects focused on establishing & modernizing enterprise-scale systems
- Accountable for creating a detailed delivery plan that can be executed by program/project teams
- Ensure program/project teams understands the objectives of the project
- Gain commitments from the program/project team to be accountable for delivering on time
- Drive and communicates program/project status, schedule baselines, schedule issues, project risks and major decisions.
- Maintain intense focus on delivering to all committed milestones and holds the project team accountable by holding weekly project status reviews
- Aggressively manage risk across the project throughout the project development life cycle to ensure on time delivery
- Communicate frequently with program/project teams, peers, management and upper management to ensure sharp focus on executing to the delivery plan and timeline
- Keep the program/project teams organized and on track for effective implementation and delivery and implements process improvements where there’s inefficiency in the execution process
- Build capability within the program/project teams to accomplish the project goals and deliver the program/project results on time
- Follow up and maintain accountability of program/project success criteria post deployment
- Must be flexible and creative in thinking to execute to a timeline when plans do not go as expected
- Must follow up relentlessly to ensure cross functional project teams are delivering against their commitments
Additional responsibilities:
- Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources
- Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Other duties may be assigned
In this role, you’ll need …
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of highly technical project management experience preferably for new enterprise projects and/or product development
- Experience delivering highly technical software projects; custom software experience preferred
- Experience project managing medical device (inclusive of regulatory requirements compliance) and hardware projects preferred
- PMP certified preferred or equivalent certification (agile, etc)
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership experience
- Should be able to effectively use Microsoft Project or equivalent tools to create and manage detailed program/project schedules
- Expert understanding of new product development and/or enterprise program management processes including but not limited to waterfall, agile methodologies, etc.
- Expert ability to create structures and processes necessary to deliver enterprise programs/projects and/or new products to successful implementation
