Agile Program Manager

Seeking experienced Agile program management professionals who can leverage their experience to lead the Program delivery with a lean-agile mindset. They must be quick learners and love challenging themselves to constantly raise the bar. This opportunity requires strong problem-solving skills an aptitude for team leadership and effective communication and collaboration across stakeholders as they deliver efficient well-designed and sophisticated software systems for positive user experience.

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering is required.
• Preferred: an MBA (or equivalent) from a top-tier institution or equivalent business experience.
• 10 years of demonstrated experience in combined program and project management delivery.
• Hands-on experience implementing enterprise-level software applications in a fast-paced environment with an ability to manage multiple functional areas simultaneously
• Experience leading large cross-functional teams and driving consensus among colleagues; the ability to lead motivate influence and drive results in a highly matrixed environment is essential.
• Demonstrated strong leadership and have led program team members.
• Relationship management experience within an enterprise globally among executives customers and staff; as well as externally with vendors and business partners as required.
• Experience in evaluating a broad range of internal and external factors when solving problems and making decisions; prioritizes team efforts to support critical business growth-driven initiatives
• Complex problem resolution and ability to merge diverse technology agendas into a cohesive integrated digital and eCommerce solution by influencing key technology resources.
• Ability to conduct and interpret qualitative and quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills and show independent judgment and creative problem-solving techniques in a highly complex environment.
• Establish relevant and comprehensive program performance-related metrics that highlight not only the overall health of the project
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to maintain alignment toward program milestones.
• Drive process improvement to increase team efficiency. Curate internal training content and process documentation to keep teams aligned on standard operating procedures guardrails and best practices.
• Handling aspects of technical projects for their organization responsible for initiating programs following their progress and serving as support providers in case issues arise.
• Manage Portfolio and program with constant communication with stakeholders escalate impediments help manage risk and drive relentless improvement.
• Track project performance across scope schedule budget and benefits realization.
• Maintain the enterprise project portfolio dashboard and provide insights to leadership.
• Support portfolio planning prioritization and resource allocation.
• Prince2/PMP Certification required
• Agile certification and understanding of SAFe methodologies required

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Project Governance Project Planning