Program Manager

Job Details:

Job Title: Program Manager

Duration: Long Term Contract

Location: St. Louis, MO || Hybrid

Job Description:

• Lead design, implementation, and management of highly complex strategic initiatives.
• Work with leadership and BU to deliver detailed designs for business cases and initiatives across the company.
• Perform Risk Management, including governing the risk and issue process, from risk, issue, and dependency identification, to developing and tracking mitigation plans, and facilitating the escalation of any issues or dependencies that block delivery.
• Monitor and communicate initiative measures of success, plans, status, issues and risks in a timely manner to team members, stakeholders and senior management.
• Present solutions to have the greatest impact on profitability and client satisfaction.
• Develop short and long-term delivery strategies while outlining assumptions, success drivers, dependencies, expected outcomes and offering strategic alternatives necessary to pivot due to internal or external business goals.
• Facilitate planning activities for the team.
• Facilitate budget activities for team
• Manage time tracking governance activities for the team (ensuring proper codes are changed, time is submitted and approved, etc.) Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred

Key Skills to Develop:

• Analytical Thinking
• Business Partnership and Consulting
• Execution
• Strategic Planning
• Technical Communication and Presentation

What you'll do

• Manage highly complex, cross-functional programs and strategic initiatives, including overall program budgeting, objectives, planning, execution, operations management, reporting, and leading the design and implementation of strategic business initiatives. Drive program execution and strategy across multiple functional areas, large Business Units (BU's), regions, or the enterprise.
• Perform comprehensive risk management, including governing the risk and issue process (identification, mitigation, escalation), and define program controls and governance (processes, procedures, reporting, and policies).
• Monitor and communicate program/initiative measures of success, plans, status, issues, and risks to team members, stakeholders, and senior management in a timely manner.
• Direct resources, stakeholders, and deliverables aligned across multiple interdependent projects.
• Ensure program deliverables align with desired outcomes and support business initiatives and strategies.
• Develop short and long-term delivery strategies while outlining assumptions, success drivers, dependencies, expected outcomes, and strategic alternatives.
• Lead budget discussions with year-end goals in mind. Present solutions to maximize profitability and client satisfaction.
• Support management of security exceptions, risk assessments, new development security assessments, and similar processes. Collaborate with risk detection and audit planning.
• Collaborate with multiple departments and cross-functional teams. Act as a point of contact for security concerns, assisting with issue resolution and investigations.
• Identify industry best practices and recommend program/security updates or changes as needed.
• Present solutions to have the greatest impact on profitability and client satisfaction Develop short and long-term delivery strategies while outlining assumptions, success drivers, dependencies, expected outcomes and offering strategic alternatives necessary to pivot due to internal or external business goals
• Facilitate planning activities for the team Facilitate budget activities for team
• Manage time tracking governance activities for the team (ensuring proper codes are changed, time is submitted and approved, etc.)
• What experience you need Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience Results-oriented professional with 7+ years of technology planning/ program management, Release Train Engineer, Program Manager or Scrum Master experience
• Experience in managing complex programs involving extensive change management Strong written and verbal communication skills Forecasts and plans resource requirements for complex initiatives
• Experience in building and managing medium to large delivery functions using Agile methodology or has managed the entire business pillar portfolio with a supporting team