Program Manager

JOB REQUISITION

Program Manager - IT

LOCATION

SAN RAMON

As Program Manager - IT your specific responsibilities will include:

- Communicate status of program within and across departments.
- Optimize results through highly effective communications.
- Leverage the program governance model to influence decision-making and minimize risk to the program.
- Effectively and appropriately communicate with C-level executives and all other levels within the organization.
- Use status reports and other communications to elicit feedback and incremental modifications and optimizations to the overall list of activities for the team.
- Identify and implement key leverage points within the program to effect and influence positive change.
- Anticipate project changes and proactively adapt processes to mitigate risk.
- Mentor project members assigned to the program.
- Independently work on highly complex or enterprise wide IT projects or programs consisting of multiple projects.
- Oversee development of approach and planning for projects within program.
- Define communications strategy and plan, and optimize results through highly effective communications.
- Coordinate the integrated project/program estimates.
- Estimate the efforts of tasks and initiatives to determine total timeline and detailed budget for projects/program.
- Determine program parameters, design approach/strategy, and establish program plan; oversee development of approach and planning for projects within program. Develop the program strategy, supporting business case and various high-level project plans.
- Ensure integration of projects and adjusts project scope, timing, and budgets as needed, based on the needs of the business.
- Track key project milestones and recommending adjustments to Project Managers.
- Plan cross-project priorities within the program.
- Program point of contact for communications, milestones and review briefings.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required, preferably in IT Project Management
- PMP (or comparable PM certification), PgMP desired (or comparable Program Mgr certification), Six Sigma certification desired.
- 10+ years’ IT experience.
- 7+ years’ project management, 2+ years’ program management experience.
- 3+ years’ experience in overall Leadership role (setting direction, decision-making).
- Supervision: demonstrated experience in supervising functional and technical staff.
- Mentoring: extensive experience in mentoring and guiding functional and technical staff.
- Budget management: extensive experience in maintaining and using project budget and actuals tracking to ensure costs are maintained within the specified tolerance level, and can train others.
- Impact analysis: extensive experience in independently assessing impact for each project aspect and determine if project can expand or not to address new idea, and can train others.
- Project planning: extensive experience in independently translating functional requirements into project plans, and can train others.
- Project implementation: extensive experience in effectively implementing all project phases, and can train others.
- Project management fundamentals: advanced knowledge of schedule, risk management, issues management, leadership, and can train others.
- Demonstrated effective (intermediate level) use and experience with MS Project, Visio, Excel.
- Leadership skills: extensive demonstrated experience in overall lead role (senior project level, management/direction setting experience).
- Problem analysis and solving skills: consistently applied within project management environment.
- Matrix management skills: extensive demonstrated experience.
- Extensive demonstrated experience incorporating software development life cycle into project plan.


Robert Half International Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

As part of Robert Half’s Corporate Services facility employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

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Corporate Staffing

Robert Half

2613 Camino Ramon

San Ramon, CA 94583-9128

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