IT Program Manager

As the Program & Integration manager In this position you will be able to lead the Demand management process across the portfolio. Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting.
Lead multiple functional Agile teams within the ART from backlog grooming and planning activities through development testing and release deployment with responsibility for all aspects of a teams productivity.
Maintain visual progress metrics indicating velocity burndown etc. Facilitate Program Increment (PI) Planning readiness and execution.

• Financial Roadmap Planning: Develop and maintain a detailed financial roadmap working closely with product owners and financial planners to ensure alignment with business goals and prioritized initiatives.
• Manage financial commitments cost of investment & operating expense across PD-IT. Correspond with PD-IT planners to understand spend plan and variances. Assess confidence of spend and predict financial gaps.
• Supplier management vendor Statement of work management incl writing SOWs one pagers planning engagement type and executing the engagement start to finish. Supporting audits to ensure compliance.
• Lead the development of an integrated PD IT cycle plan for our budgets YOY
• Ensure compliance to ET business office financial forecasting and actuals reporting
• Maintain supplier contracts follow ITBO process guidelines to ensure our engagements are compliant and manage sourcing strategies end to end. Coordinate the ideation & roll out of process for demand planning and meeting the ITBO process timelines.
• Establish business value for prioritized investments. Manage the plan for sourcing strategy and maintain program resource mgmt. Aligning with ITBO targets and managing sourcing strategy plans across all product groups.
• Technical Product Integration: effectively present and communicate delivery plans statuses risks and key decisions within product teams and with Senior Management on a regular basis. Manage the demand and coordinate changes through system of delivery.
• Assist in tracking the execution of features across teams. Facilitate scaling meetings (scrum of scrum product owner sync overall retrospectives solution demos).
• Collaborate with product and technology teams to ensure the product vision translates into a workable roadmap that is executable across the program.
• Oversee and ensure PI planning readiness product vision and roadmap architectural runway backlogs business value assessments and event logistics. Manage escalate and drive resolution of program risks and dependencies with key stakeholders product leadership scrum teams system teams and program stakeholders
• Manage and coordinate dependencies with internal and external stakeholders. Balance multiple projects to critical path providing regular milestone updates and risk assessments to stakeholders and Senior Management
• Assist in new process creation and roll-out
• Provide guidance to product teams on agile ceremonies best practices and implementation
• Help the product lead define and articulate project strategy and objectives scope and business requirements
• Think creatively to make recommendations regarding execution strategies and potential solutions
• Identify research analyze and manage risks and interdependencies within projects/systems/resources and formulate plausible solutions and contingency plans in consultation with stakeholders and Senior Management
• Conduct cross product line PI planning events
• Handle formal scope definition KPI identification & tracking and change log
• Balance demand & capacity allocation across the PD IT Portfolio

• Bachelors in related field or work experience equivalent.
• 8 years consistent track record driving objective accountability and ownership within cross functional teams
• 5 years Scaled Agile System of Delivery
• 5 years Low-cost Sourcing experience
• 7 years experience with supplier/purchase service sourcing
• Understanding of Product Driven System of Delivery
• Strong technical product management discipline
• Politically savvy navigating the organization to achieve outcomes
• Proven ability to lead and empower team members
• Strong organizational and multi-tasking abilities
• Knowledge of engineering processes i.e. GPDS
• Resourceful and creative.
• Strong knowledge of tools ERP Financial tools NICUS Jira Confluence Miro Indepth knowledge of MS Excel.