Program manager

Duties:

As an IT Project Manager, you will work in close partnership with your Portfolio Manager and your respective IT delivery teams, playing a critical role in overseeing the successful delivery of Portfolios, Products, Programs, and Waterfall Projects within your assigned area of responsibility. You will manage project financials at expected levels of quality and accuracy against their approved budgets, including Forecasting, Accruals, Reconciliation, Amortization, and Capitalization, across all stages of the project lifecycle and while adhering to the standards and controls set by PMO Governance. The IT Portfolio Project Manager role is evolving as we advance on our journey to SAFe Agile and remains critical to ensuring delivery success.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:

Project Initiation & Delivery Support:

• Planview Setup: Ensure all project metadata (such as project owner, start and end dates, milestones, resources etc.) is accurately reflected in Planview and updated, as required.

• Project Health:

• Update and track project status (Red, Yellow, Green) provided by the delivery teams. Document and update as require the project risks, issues and dependencies provided by the delivery teams.

• Contracting & Vendor Management:

• Support contract approvals, rate corrections and contract tracking in COUPA, working with EPG (Enterprise Procurement), Application Development and vendors.

• Project Setup & Ongoing Support:

• Work with Release Train Engineers and Scrum Masters to obtain overall roadmap and PI plan, identifying key milestones to setup tasks and activities in Planview. Attend ongoing agile delivery team meetings/ceremonies to understand and update project health, milestones, risks, mitigation plan and dependencies in Planview.

• Project Closeout:

• Work with team to execute project closeout activities in adherence to defined standards and control