Job Title: Program Manager
Location: Iselin, NJ (Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term
Job Description:
Client is seeking to contract an experienced Program Manager to play a key role in driving successful transformation initiatives across the Firm. You will be responsible for overseeing the planning, execution, and delivery of transformation initiatives. You will facilitate collaboration across teams and departments to meet the strategic objectives of the program.
The Program Manager will need to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders and external vendors to ensure complex initiatives are coordinated across teams and downstream and upstream impacts are thoughtfully considered. The role involves taking large amounts of information, breaking it down to be easily understood, and present it in a clear and concise manner.
Strong organization, communication, and influencing skills, along with change management, business acumen, managing multiple priorities and experience with systems implementations are vital for this role.
The role is a hybrid position and will report to the Managing Director of the Enterprise Transformation Office. The contract term is expected to be 6 months, extendable.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the delivery of complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, timelines, and budgets.
- Drive coordination across Service Lines, technology teams, operations, and external partners to ensure program cohesion and successful delivery.
- Identify risks, inter-dependencies and mitigation strategies across program scope, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Develop and maintain program plans, schedules, budgets and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Establish governance structures, operating rhythms and metrics that provide visibility, manage risk and enable proactive decision-making to ensure program success.
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure effective change management and communications resources are built into the program delivery plan and budget.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
- Prepare reports outlining the health of each project.
- Analysis of key operating data.
- Develop insights and actionable recommendations based on analyses.
- Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor's degree with 10+ years program management experience, with at least 5 years focused on enterprise-wide transformations or strategic initiatives with significant technology components.
- Demonstrable track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver desired business outcomes.
- Proficiency with enterprise program management tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project or equivalent.
Preferred/Desired Qualifications:
- Background in financial and/or professional services. (Professional Services preferred).
- Ability to synthesize various sets of information to bring informative insights.
- Detail-oriented, results-driven.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience in Agile methodologies is a plus.
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