Job Description

• Strong program/project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing large scale projects from vision through implementation, involving internal personnel, contractors, and vendors.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Portfolio Planning process including program definition and scoping, estimating, and planning new initiatives.
• Technical knowledge with hands-on experience, managing application development.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with an ability to express complex technical concepts in business terms.
• Demonstrating leadership skills and possessing a track record of managing technical staff and financial resources through various life-cycle phases (cross-functional experience highly desirable).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels and thrive in a cross-functional environment.
• Identify and mitigate project risks, and escalate issues to senior management as needed.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and quality standards are followed by projects w/n the program.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners and vendors as needed.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of project progress and status to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of best practices, processes, and tools to improve program and project management across the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor less experienced team members.

Required Skills

• Experience in Effective Application Development Project Implementation / Deployment strategies with a customer base distributed throughout the world.
• Experience in highly parallel work environments with projects utilizing iterative, agile, and waterfall approaches to achieve their objectives.
• Experience in both business transformation and information technology projects is required.
• Experience with project management tools and methodologies.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and project management software.
• Ability to stay organized and maintain attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.