IT Program Manager

Your Title: IT Program Manager

Job Location: Westminster, Colorado-Onsite

Department: Program Management

Do you thrive on complexity and demand ownership? We're searching for a proven Senior Project Manager to step in and drive our critical, high-impact projects from concept to completion.

What You Will Do

We are searching for a strategic leader ready to tackle our most pivotal, multi-faceted endeavors. As our next Senior Project Manager, you'll be the driving force behind our most complex and high-visibility initiatives, turning strategic vision into tangible results. If you are a highly experienced and proactive professional who thrives on navigating ambiguity, overcoming major hurdles, and delivering game-changing projects, we want you to lead our team to success.
Responsibilities

• End-to-End Ownership: Drive the complete lifecycle of complex, strategic, and cross-functional initiatives from initiation and planning through successful deployment and closure.
• Strategic Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary liaison, expertly managing expectations and fostering collaborative partnerships with external stakeholders and executive leadership to ensure absolute project alignment.
• Planning & Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, defining scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation. Meticulously track progress against key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Proactive Risk & Issue Management: Identify and aggressively mitigate potential risks, bottlenecks, and conflicting priorities to keep projects on schedule and budget.
• Transparent Reporting & Communication: Produce and deliver clear, consistent status reports (including executive summaries and RAG status), leading status meetings to ensure alignment and data-driven decision-making across all levels.
• Team & Process Mastery: Lead, motivate, and hold project teams accountable for high performance. Drive efficiency by leveraging project management tools (Jira, Smartsheet, etc.) and constantly seeking continuous improvement opportunities through team retrospectives.
• Influence & Control: Apply expert project management skills to control project scope and effectively manage the critical trade-offs between schedule, quality, and resources to influence project outcomes.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of proven experience in project management, with a track record of successfully delivering large-scale, complex projects.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated success in managing relationships with external clients, vendors, and partners.
• Meticulous attention to detail and outstanding organizational skills.
• A proactive, self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and organizational skills, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Expert proficiency with modern project management software and collaboration tools.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or a similar project management certification. (Preferred)

• Hands-on experience working within Agile and/or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environments. (Preferred)

About Your Location

Trimble Inc. officially relocated its corporate headquarters to Westminster, Colorado, on October 6, 2022, moving from its long-time base in Sunnyvale, California. This move solidified Westminster's status as a pivotal center for Trimble's global operations.

Trimble's Westminster, CO headquarters is much more than just an administrative office. It's a strategic center for executive leadership, a major employment hub, and a key driver of innovation and business development for several of Trimble's most important market segments globally.

About Trimble's Program Management Team

Trimble's approach to project management is primarily focused on providing connected, data-driven software solutions that empower project teams across major industries, especially construction, geospatial, and transportation
Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced and proactive Senior Project Manager to lead our most complex and strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate is a master of navigating intricate project landscapes and excels at building and maintaining strong relationships with external stakeholders, including clients, partners, and vendors. If you are a detail-oriented, self-starting leader who thrives on turning ambitious goals into reality, we want to hear from you

What You Will Do

• End-to-End Project Leadership: Manage the full lifecycle of complex, cross-functional projects from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and successful closure.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Act as the primary liaison for all external stakeholders. You'll be responsible for setting expectations, ensuring clear and consistent communication, and fostering collaborative partnerships to guarantee project alignment and success.
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, defining scope, timelines, resource allocation, and budgets. You'll meticulously track progress against these plans and report on key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Status Reporting: You will develop and deliver weekly and/or bi-weekly Project Status Reports tailored to different audiences (e.g., executive summaries for leadership, detailed reports for stakeholders). These reports will clearly communicate progress against milestones, budget status, risk assessment (using a RAG - Red, Amber, Green status), and upcoming activities. You will be responsible for leading project status meetings to present these findings, facilitate discussions, and ensure alignment across all parties.
• Key Performance Metrics (KPIs):You will establish, track, and report on critical project metrics to ensure transparency and data-driven decision-making. Your success will be measured by your ability to manage.
• Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify potential project risks and bottlenecks. You will be expected to develop and implement effective mitigation strategies to keep projects on track.
• Tool & Process Mastery: Utilize a range of project management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, MS Project) to manage workflows, documentation, and reporting efficiently.
• Team Collaboration: Lead and motivate project teams, ensuring clear direction and fostering a culture of accountability and high performance.
• Continuous Improvement: Always looking for opportunities to do things better. Conduct regular retrospectives with the team and manage the actions.

• Accountability: Coordinate activities between all stakeholders to deliver, while working within the business constraints. Understand Resource constraints and work with business teams to resolve conflicting priorities. Work closely across DTO and Sector/ Divisional Teams to deliver each release.

• Monitor and Control Projects: Control Scope with the teams. Manage the trade-off decisions of Schedule, Quality and time with the Transformation Directors/ Workstream Leaders.
• Influence: Have the ability to influence the outcome of the project using your project management skills.

Skills & Experiences You Should Bring

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of proven experience in project management, with a track record of successfully delivering large-scale, complex projects.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated success in managing relationships with external clients, vendors, and partners.
• Meticulous attention to detail and outstanding organizational skills.
• A proactive, self-starter mindset with the ability to work independently and take ownership of outcomes.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and organizational skills, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Expert proficiency with modern project management software and collaboration tools.

Preferred Qualifications (Bonus Points ):

• PMP, PRINCE2, or a similar project management certification.
• Hands-on experience working within Agile and/or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environments.
• Experience in complex IT initiatives.

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