Dir, Program Management

• Facilitates cross-discipline teams responsible for ongoing development of roadmaps to inform demand management and project prioritization and aids with strategic roadmap development for the area of oversight/responsibility.
• Oversees the planning, development, and implementation of project efforts that utilize information technology solutions, principles, standards, and best practices.
• Determines the priorities, goals, plans and resources to ensure delivery of projects, programs and products.
• Tracks portfolios and crucial initiatives by monitoring milestones and accomplishments ensuring follow-through on the part of key stakeholders and sustaining momentum needed for progress.
• Works with product owners, and project teams to facilitate the development of actionable work plans, deployment models, and resource allocations to achieve operational priorities.
• Partners with leaders to ensure project teams are deployed effectively to support the execution of projects and portfolios.
• Reviews goals and strategies to ensure alignment with the discipline IT roadmaps.

• Develops communications strategy and shares goals, deliverables, achievements, organizational changes.
• Provides targeted and timely communication of results, achievements and challenges to direct reports, peers, and leaders.
• Partners with internal customers to create the foundations of the transformation program to lead them through an agile transformation.
• Coach functional teams on new ways of doing business and influence them for a sustainable shift in behaviors and mindsets.
• Holds leaders accountable for building teams with the appropriate mix of talent and skills to drive innovation and performance.
• Ensures organizational structures, systems, and processes support business performance and innovation.
• Connects and inspires people to drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple groups with competing priorities.

• Provides expertise on the creation of a centralized PMO, Governance, and Quality function, utilizing best-practices and tools, and leveraging existing forums, and establishing new forums, as necessary.
• Defines project management roles and the related refinement and management of SDLC waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Develops and implements strategies for project prioritization and portfolio modeling, project trade-off analyses and resource and capacity planning.
• Leads the development and implementation of tools and processes to manage risks, interdependences, benefits realization, project estimates and costs, resources and metrics.
• Develops and implements strategies for project and portfolio management including decision analysis, project planning, scheduling, resource planning and cost management.
• Develop standards and metrics that are used to measure the health of the portfolio.
• Ensures Project Managers are trained on Project Management systems and methodologies.
• Promotes and supports the PM community of practices.

• Develops and leads a highly functioning team that leverages project management expertise, best practices and analytics to deliver strategic initiatives on-time and on-budget.
• Reviews key initiatives to ensure alignment with broader portfolio and to identify potential conflicts/barriers/risks to implementation.
• Hires, develops, and retains diverse talent that makes a strong, positive impact on the organization.
• Guides direct reports and their teams with their growth and development plans.
• Sets goals and expectations for direct reports and holds staff accountable for performance goals.

• Develops and implements agile practices across the organization.
• Creates and maintains the overall agile transformation roadmap.
• Leads and coordinates new initiatives to support the strategic direction of Agile transformation.
• Coaches and enables delivery teams on modern application delivery practices.
• Supports teams in creating product vision and roadmap, writing effective user stories, and prioritizing backlog based on business value in available toolset (e.g., Jira, TFS, etc.).
• Participates in team initiatives related to Agile tools, metrics, processes and training.

• Proactively identify improvements to project and portfolio management systems and reporting mechanisms.
• Works with leaders to deconstruct issues, developing solutions, assigning accountability, and following through to conclusion.
• Partners with senior executives to assess project management effectiveness and to foster integration and adoption of new tools and processes.

Recommended Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Benefits Realisation Management
• Business Planning
• Business Process Improvement
• Capacity Planning
• Change Management