Job description
Our client has a contract opportunity for a
Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading mid to large size programs, as well as project/team level activities working directly with stakeholders across product teams and business functions to ensure successful execution and delivery of value and outcomes.
Job Description:
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
Program Management:
Education & Experience:
Technological Requirements:
Desired Skills:
Reference: 902591
ABOUT REVEL IT:
Revel IT (formerly known as Fast Switch) is one of the fastest-growing, privately held, IT Staffing companies in the nation. Our client base includes 32% of the Fortune 25. We have major offices in Dublin, OH, Phoenix, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, and Austin, TX and are rapidly expanding into new markets from coast to coast.
WHY REVEL IT:
Revel IT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Revel IT does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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Job Description:
- This role is also responsible for driving alignment and managing dependencies across programs, projects, and product / technology teams.
- The Sr Program Manager may also help to manage project efforts and team level activities (if needed) ensuring consistency in execution and deliverables, while delivering value for athletes and teammates.
- The Sr program manager will be instrumental to help to drive and grow delivery practices and tools, support change management efforts and provide enterprise governance process support.
- The Program Manager must exhibit the ability to lead managers and their teams and drive collaboration and alignment.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
Program Management:
- Scope, plan and execute programs and deliver key outcomes with minimal outside assistance that span
across Technology teams, stakeholder groups and third parties. - Manages Issues and Risks across program helping to remove barriers
- Provides ongoing Governance (reporting, monitoring, escalation, controls)
- Work with appropriate stakeholders, including outside parties, to undertake analysis and define options and
recommendations, and ultimately deliver value. - Drive alignment across stakeholder groups to enable delivery success.
- Supports the Portfolio management and prioritization process to achieve alignment between technology
and business teams - Drive improvement in methodologies and deliverables, as well as collaboration practices and ways of
working - Supports program level reporting practices and alignment between financial tracking and value delivery.
- Drive and grow delivery practices and tools, support change management efforts and provide enterprise
governance process support - Supports strategic planning activities across product and technology portfolios.
- Supports Portfolio prioritization, budgeting, and goal setting across products
- Ensures alignment or the organization and key stakeholders with product portfolio direction
- Supports ongoing Portfolio Governance activities (reporting, monitoring, escalation, controls)
- Measures and reports on the product portfolio (status, financials, issues & risks, etc.)
- Supports and drives financial management and vendor management activities (contract negotiations,
SOW/PO/Invoice management, etc.) - Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and
fiscally responsible manner
- Manages dependencies and defines work plans and action plans to help minimize or mitigate dependencies across the product teams and business teams.
- Integrated planning and roadmap alignment across product teams and business teams.
- Remove impediments for teams and shields teams from external interruptions
- Management and/or administrative support of Epics/Features, backlog and requirements and/or scope within product teams or across projects
- Build schedules / plans (iterations, release plans, outcome roadmaps, activity & milestone plans
- Track and report on progress (velocity and burndown, activity/milestone tracking, progress reporting)
- Issue tracking and action planning / ownership
- Coordination, planning & alignment with teams/stakeholders; dependency tracking
- Resource planning and coordination; capacity planning and tracking
- Vendor management, planning and coordination; contracting
- Manage Change (change management, communications, storytelling, backlog management, scope change)
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7 - 10 years
Technological Requirements:
- 7-10 years of relevant work experience , with 1-3 years experience in a retail and eCommerce environment
- 1-3 years of highly effective scrum management experience leading product and technology teams, as well as experience with agile-based tools.
- Experience managing alignment across programs, projects or product teams in an enterprise environment.
- Experience and knowledge of organizational change management principles, methodologies and tools
- Experience managing strategic vendor relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships
- Proficient in the planning and execution of programs and projects and risk mitigation strategies
- Proficient in Agile project management execution in a modern software environment via multiple methodologies (Agile, Scrum, SAFE)
- Experience translating ideas, approaches, and dependencies between technical and functional team members
- Experience communicating program status, risks, issues, and needs to senior leaders, and managing up
- Proficient in managing and growing team members in a professional setting
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Proficient in effective troubleshooting and issue resolution techniques
- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
- Strong Experience using Microsoft Office tools (Project, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project)
Desired Skills:
- Good Knowledge of Retail E-Commerce Domain
- PMP Certification
- Experience with Agile Development and knowledge on Agile Deployment practices
- OCM or Change Management Professional Certification
- Exposure to a CI/CD toolchain
- Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and Understanding of modern microservice-based architectures and methodologies
Reference: 902591
ABOUT REVEL IT:
Revel IT (formerly known as Fast Switch) is one of the fastest-growing, privately held, IT Staffing companies in the nation. Our client base includes 32% of the Fortune 25. We have major offices in Dublin, OH, Phoenix, AZ, Los Angeles, CA, and Austin, TX and are rapidly expanding into new markets from coast to coast.
WHY REVEL IT:
- In addition to standard health and 401k benefits, we offer referral bonuses and training/continuing education opportunities.
- 5-year client retention: 99%
- No. 1 supplier with customers: 53%
- Top 3 supplier with customers: 77%
- Consultant retention: 94%
Revel IT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Revel IT does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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