Manager Program Management

The purpose of the role is to plan, organize and control program and project management activities to ensure proper expectations are set around what can be delivered, by when, and for how much. During project planning and execution, the role's responsibility is to negotiate reasonable and achievable deadlines and milestones across stakeholders, teams, and management so projects are completed as successfully as possible in spite of all the risks.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Tracks, reviews, and reports the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan

• Integrates outcomes across functions ensuring best practices, techniques and tools for project planning, execution, project management, milestones/deliverables tracking, communication and key performance metrics are elements of projects that are coordinated, prioritized, and managed to meet stakeholder and project goals

• Creates and maintains integrated program and project plans; establishes high level and detailed planning of milestones, risks, mitigations strategies and tasks to guide both project execution and project control, to meet or exceed project/program completion

• Manages reviews at execution level and occasionally up to executive levels within the organization to resolve issues and make decisions

• Schedules and facilitates regular and ad-hoc team meetings, defines agendas, summarizes action items, and maintains minutes

• Facilitates a neutral, open, transparent communication, horizontally and vertically to make decisions and resolve conflict

• Drives accountability and cross functional agendas at strategic and tactical levels to deliver on time, on budget with high compliance and quality without direct authority

• Ensures continual improvement by taking courses or otherwise updating skills related to communication [written and verbal], negotiation and collaboration