PROGRAM MANAGER

Company: HonorVet Technologies
Location: Saint Paul
Posted on: October 12, 2024

Job Description:

Narrative Description of Position: The consultant will be expected to complete the following responsibilities.

Program Planning & Management
--- Develop comprehensive program, portfolio, and project plans using Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid methodologies
--- Define scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines
--- Experience managing testing activities and resources to ensure unit, performance, and functionality testing objectives are met.
--- Strong vendor management experience to ensure delivery of contractual scope within agreed upon constraints.
--- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the execution of projects within established baselines
--- Utilize departmental tools for program and project management, tracking, and reporting
--- Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple interrelated projects and manage dependencies
--- Monitor and Control program to ensure alignment with the approved Program Charter, escalate as needed per Governance structure
--- Execute and manage in accordance with the established governance plan
--- Create consistency among program and projects
--- Create Program Roadmap/timeline and manage in order to meet milestones, objectives and project interdependencies
--- Direct and guide program deployment strategies
--- Guide program methodologies and tools in a manner consistent with industry standards and best practices across the program
--- Communicate regularly across projects
--- Maintain program estimates/budget, issues, risks, assumptions and constraints
--- Escalate decisions and issues to appropriate level
--- Assist Project Managers with Vendor Management
Manage the stakeholders based on the established expectations
--- Determine how the program goals and objectives are measured to ensure success of the Program based on project goals/objectives by working with the Project Sponsors

Leadership
--- Demonstrated business acumen and professionalism in order to clearly communicate with senior level executives in oral, written, and presentation formats
--- Strong leadership and communication skills, capable of influencing and guiding teams in a matrixed environment
--- Ability to facilitate prioritization, roadmap, and trade off discussions with program stakeholders
--- Manage project managers providing day to day guidance and oversight to ensure service delivery
--- Ability to manage and motivate teams, including direct and indirect reports
--- Proven ability to work effectively with senior executives, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams. Accountable for leading change management and conflict resolution efforts within assigned projects
--- Ensure teams have clear roles, responsibilities, and deliverables
--- Ensure outcome-based program and project management by focusing on key milestones and deliverables, starting with the strategic vision and developing deadlines to achieve targeted results
Stakeholder and Relationship Management
--- Build strong stakeholder relationships to become a trusted advisor to project sponsors and senior leaders
--- Communicate program status, risks, and issues to all stakeholders and executive management in a timely manner, setting expectations and escalating as necessary
--- Ensure alignment of project objectives with business goals through active stakeholder management
--- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to manage executive-level relationships and negotiate with third-party vendors and partners
--- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
Risk & Issue Management
--- Proactively identify, assess, and manage project/program risks and issues through mitigation planning
--- Monitor and report project/program progress and performance throughout the delivery lifecycle
Budget & Resource Management
--- Develop and manage program and project budgets, ensuring compliance with governance requirements
--- Allocate resources effectively to ensure program and project success through demand management and capacity planning to ensure project success
--- Monitor expenditures and ensure adherence to budget constraints
Vendor Management
--- Strong vendor management experience to ensure delivery of contractual scope within agreed upon constraints
--- Review vendor's responsibilities per the SoW/contract and hold the vendor accountable
--- Negotiate with the vendor for new requests or changes to existing scope
--- Actively manage risks resulting from vendors or vendor interaction with our org
--- Promote active communication and collaboration between the vendor and our org

Transformation & Organizational Change Management
--- Lead transformation and change management initiatives within projects/programs to ensure solution adoption and process adherence

Process Improvement
--- Support the evaluation and refinement of project management methodologies and processes
--- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO
--- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging practices

Problem Solving and Decision Making:
--- Analytical mindset with the ability to make data-driven decisions and problem-solving in complex environments
--- Demonstrated ability to navigate uncertainty and deliver results in ambiguous situations

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