Program Manager - Veear Projects Inc

Program Manager, as a member of the Information Data Services, Planning & Delivery group, will be responsible for driving and collaborating with cross functional teams on the successful execution & completion of Digital Media Analytics programs. Expected to bring success to every initiative and program her or his team tackles. By coordinating broader business strategy, initiating, planning, executing and monitoring they are vital in the support of their team as they achieve their overarching objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manages delivery of the program scope, objectives, and success metrics
• Drives resolution of risks, issues and decisions, and escalates to governance forums as necessary
• Understands overall scope and deliverables map against release timeline; Oversees timeline, quality, and operations
• Works with the Solution and Enterprise architects to ensure the program team adheres to overall solution design across tracks
• Responsible for ensuring coordination of work efforts at program level, understands and manages critical path key dependencies
• Works with Track Leads and Program Managers to understand status of work efforts and impact to the program to move delivery forward
• Oversees resource requirements identification to execute program plans; Establishes approach, tools, and templates to support program execution
• Provides status, guidance and impediment review to sponsors, stakeholders & Executive Team and manages Executive expectations related to the program
• Supports Release planning, Annual Operational Planning, Investment Prioritization
• Facilitates SteerCo, OpCo, PMO, Cross Functional Team, Program Scrum of Scrums meetings to communicate and address risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, and milestones delivery for the program

Deliverables

• Ideate Phase Project Investment Briefs
• Initiate Phase Strategy and Approach Decks, Business Value Case, Cost Tracker, Risk Profile and Assessment, Resource Sourcing Strategy, Program Collaboration Tools Strategy, Concept Acceptance Decks
• Planning Phase Program Charter, Jira Initiatives, Epics, and Stories, Project Plan (detailed and high-level), Cost and Benefits Tracker, Resource Plan, Hiring Status Dashboard, Resource Allocation Master and Status Dashboard, Project Plan Commit Deck
• Execution Phase Status Reports, Success Metrics Log Entries, RAID log Entries, Change log Entries, Escalation Procedure, Team Building Exercises, Team Recognition, Transition to Support Deck
• Close Phase Warranty Period Agreement, Executive Summary of Validated Benefits Realization, and Summary of Retrospective Lessons Learned

Experience & Skills

• Program/Project management experience using a formal methodology including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall
• Minimum 12 years in IT, 7 Years of as a Project/Program Manager, 2-3 Years as CSM / Scrum Master and Azure experience
• Created project plans which includes scope, schedule, cost, quality, organization, communication, staffing, risk and issue management
• Ability to multi-task between concurrent assignments, prioritize effectively, and adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments, and roles
• Creative and proactive problem solver self-motivated with ability to work well in teams and cross-departments
• Skilled in SharePoint and JIRA; Advanced skills in SharePoint, JIRA and MS Office Excel and PowerPoint and other tools
• works well under pressure in a fast-paced environment; BS / BE / MS/ MCA / Any Master degree in Computer Science/IT and relevant experience
• Secondary Skills/Good To have - PMP Certification with 1-2 years of working experience as Business Analyst or Developer
• Impact and influence In times of high pressure, you listen to different perspectives, evaluate, persuade and carefully shape team's work to deliver truly impactful results
• Strong leadership skills; Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; Good organization skills; Should be proactive and adaptive in nature