Sr Program Manager :: Dunwoody, GA or remote

About the role

The Staff Program Manager is focused on driving the execution of cross-functional programs in alignment with strategic business priorities and goals. This role enables execution and implementation across multiple teams, facilitating decision-making, stakeholder engagement, change management, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Enable execution and implementation across multiple teams, facilitating decision-making, stakeholder engagement, change management, and risk management
• Handle resourcing, milestone plans, complex interdependencies, communication across a broad audience with varying needs, and enable organizational/business readiness, all in conjunction with an agile development construct
• Support strategic planning, portfolio management, prioritization, executive reporting, dependency management, and cross-functional alignment activities to enable successful execution of business objectives and transformation initiatives
• Independently handles a variety of portfolio projects ranging in complexity that span one or multiple lines of business
• Manages the day-to-day program activities and resources; chairs the program management team meetings
• Reports on success criteria results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities
• Provides status on milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues
• Creates executive-level presentations, status reporting, dashboards, and strategic recommendations for leadership audiences

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree desired; or demonstrated relevant experience
• PMP desired
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams
• Experience supporting strategic planning, portfolio management, enterprise transformation, or organizational change initiatives preferred

Skills

• Executive communications and delivering messaging with the right level of detail and context to drive productive dialogues
• Manage multiple competing priorities and drive toward a path forward in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Ability to synthesize information
• Leadership through relationship building and influence
• Defines success criteria in partnership with stakeholders and directs the team in alignment with those goals
• Critical Thinking
• Evaluates business trade-offs and facilitates informed decision-making across stakeholder groups
• Stakeholder Management
• Develops governance structure to keep key stakeholders aware and involved in key projects
• Ensures that key business stakeholders are involved and their requirements accounted for in the solution and delivery timeline
• Communicates with stakeholders about progress and issues that are relevant to them
• Facilitates executive and leadership-level discussions to support alignment, prioritization, and decision-making
• General Program Management
• Handles scope and changes
• Prepares and maintains a detailed plan for all phases that is shared and visible to relevant partners
• Maintains a detailed plan for all phases that is shared and visible to relevant partners
• Monitors, tracks, and controls outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables
• Manages cross-program dependencies and proactively identifies execution risks and resource constraints
• Prepares detailed resource estimates aligning with the planned activities
• Negotiates with resource managers to procure adequate resources to achieve objectives in planned timeframes
• Delegates tasks and responsibilities to appropriate resources
• Reporting And Communication
• Reports on success criteria results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities
• Provides status on milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues
• Creates executive-level presentations, status reporting, dashboards, and strategic recommendations for leadership audiences