People Tech Program Manager!

People Tech Program Manager

1 Year Contract (Remote)

Pay: $59-$62/HR

Responsibilities:

• Partner with assigned teams to set program and portfolio roadmaps, OKRs, and build appropriate processes to control the flow of work, prioritization, dependency management, and communications

• Take program and portfolio roadmaps and break the work down into actionable work streams

• Facilitate resource planning, prioritization and trade-off discussions and manage project budgets • Succinctly communicate to customers and stakeholders, about your progress, issues, risks, dependencies, and decisions needed

• Be a change agent and lead transformation management efforts

• Be a hands-on Program Manager that actively manages the details of multiple projects of varying size and complexity (e.g., business application enhancements, new system implementations, system and data integration work, M&A-related work).

• Foster strong partnerships with stakeholders and business and technical leaders and create project artefacts (plans, reports, dashboards, etc.) necessary to manage their projects and project portfolio.

• Assist in the creation of strategies and short to long term roadmap for the People Tech team

• Be a coach, consultant and advocate for multiple project management methodologies

• Identify and lead multi-functional dependencies and unblock roadblocks

• Prepare and deliver communications to varying audiences up to C-suite

• Use innovation and creativity to deliver automated insights in the form of dashboards, and potentially project portfolio management tools

• Collaborate and provide strategic input on the ongoing development of how the People Team PMO structures its processes and tools

Requirements:

• 5+ years of project management experience within an enterprise IT function and/or hybrid role working across business and technology, ideally at a growth technology company

• 3+ years of experience as a Program Manager within an enterprise IT function (ideally People Tech team)

• Breadth of knowledge of People ecosystems, experience working in various tech stacks and applications

• Superb communication skills with the ability to tailor verbal and written communications for the intended audience

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining complex portfolio and project management in project management platforms

• 3+ years organizing and coordinating periodic portfolio planning and prioritization activities for a specific portfolio of projects.

• Excellent analytical skills, combined with impeccable business judgment and ability to communicate effectively with management, IT, non-technical internal and external users, vendors and international teams

• Experience defining projects with business stakeholders and working with technical teams to define and execute against the project roadmap

• Experience performing resource allocation and managing project budgets

• Experience performing cross-functional capacity planning for projects

• Experience running projects using a hybrid Waterfall and Agile approach

• Experience with project management tools like Jira, Smartsheets, & Asana

• Project management certifications (PMP, SCM)
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