Overview
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Drives BI team programs and projects required to ensure programs achieve their strategic objectives within scope, schedule, and budget and deliver business value.
- Ensures that all assigned programs are utilizing an appropriate change control process.
- Articulates the program status and outcomes appropriately to all stakeholders, including making presentations that could be presented for executive sponsors.
- Develops and implements effective communication plans, designed to drive program discussions with stakeholders; handles escalations or further escalates so that issues do not impact scope, schedule, or budget.
10+ years experience managing multiple, large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects/programs; accountable to executive stakeholders. These projects may include software product development, product/service implementation, or marketing that utilizes cutting-edge technology.
- With Management Responsibilities
o 6-9 years of management experience; experience managing diverse project portfolios preferred.
o Demonstrated ability to manage geographically dispersed project teams.
Required Skills: Customer Focus
- Excellent customer focus dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers, acts with customers in mind, and establishes and maintains effective working relationships with customers.
- Project Management
- Proven knowledge of Project/Program Management principles/methodologies (e.g., waterfall and Agile) and the ability to coach and mentor less experienced program/project managers.
- Proven process management skills skilled at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done, knows how to organize people and activities, knows how to separate, and combine tasks into an efficient workflow. Can recommend enhancements and present findings to executive stakeholders.
- Proven planning skills can work with cross-functional project teams to accurately scope out length and difficulty of milestones, break work down into tasks, develop schedules for multiple, inter-connected and non-related projects and teams, anticipate and adjust for problems and roadblocks, measure performance against goals across the program, and evaluate results.
Communication Embrace and lead change. Demonstrates ability to effectively cope with change and shift gears comfortably.; help their teams and executive stakeholders move efficiently through the change curve. Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and interpersonal) with team members, stakeholders, and customers effective in a variety of informal and formal settings. Able to clearly articulate complex concepts. Excellent decision-making skills can make quality decisions in a timely manner. Excellent conflict resolution skills. Demonstrates ability to thrive in a fast-paced, self-managing, team-based, dynamic environment. Technical Understanding Research functional and technical knowledge and programs needed to support the program.