Program Manager

Location: Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
6+ month contracts

Job Description Summary

Manage the delivery of programs and projects by leading project teams, ensuring effective stakeholder management and business engagement, serving as the primary point of contact for project status and budget reporting and facilitating strong partnerships with third-party contributors to manage project schedules, risks and issues.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities
Effectively lead programs and projects to achieve defined business outcomes. Create a high performing team of business, IT and third-party stakeholders to initiate, design, and deliver people, process and technology solutions. Serve as a primary point of contact for business sponsors and other business stakeholders.
Seek to learn assigned business function, processes and systems. Demonstrate strong business acumen and leadership to drive results, remove execution barriers and anticipate and manage program risks.
Instill best practice methodologies and tools into project execution activities, adhering to established Project Management framework standards and ensuring that all defined approvals are obtained
Manage project interdependencies within an overall program, ensuring that individual project goals are met and that overall program business benefits are achieved.
Demonstrate financial management discipline by ensuring that a quality business case is developed, overseeing the development of estimates, benefit commitments, and overall project costs including contingency. Monitor the project budget, providing updated monthly forecasts and communicating potential budget overruns.
Maintain effective communication within the project team, and external to the project team, including producing accurate project status reports, decision logs and other project and meeting documentation to ensure team alignment and to drive forward progress. Escalate project risks and issues as appropriate.
Maintain a quality project schedule, collaborating with third-party contributors, to ensure an accurate forecast of resource demand and project costs. Leverage best practice scheduling tactics to monitor project progress and critical path dependencies.
Manage budgeted resources by anticipating expenditures, accurately forecasting resource needs/costs and properly accounting for expenses to meet requirements and achieve fiscal responsibility

Required Education
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Required Experience
7 years relevant experience

Preferred Competencies/Skills
Communicate effectively, concisely and appropriately at all levels
Identify and articulate improvement opportunities and translate them into tangible business deliverables
Anticipate obstacles, estimate time and resources needed for the completion of a project
Identify opportunities for synergy and integration
Effectively present information to influence organizational leaders and key stakeholders
Adjust plans, goals, actions or priorities to meet changing situations
Anticipate obstacles, estimate time and resources needed for the completion of a project
Conduct gap analysis of current state and desired future state
Use expertise to formulate and make recommendations regarding practice and development opportunities
Coach and encourage employees towards continuously improving performance and mentor team with feedback, on-the-job skill enhancement opportunities and career advice
Build and establish constructive and cooperative working relationships and open lines of communication
Utilize effective communication skills to influence and persuade decision makers

Preferred Experience
Experience delivering and managing multi-year, complex programs

Preferred Licenses/Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Preferred Knowledge
Expert knowledge of project management techniques and tools
Thorough understanding of the business drivers and factors driving change in the information technology and insurance industry
Working knowledge of information technology environments, solutions, plans, and strategies
Working knowledge of systems development lifecycle

Thanks & Regards

Deepak Panday

Sr. Technical Recruiter

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