Program Manager

Job Description

Title: Program Manager

Location: Englewood, CO

Salary: $110K CTH

Responsibilities:

A Program Manager is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of projects, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning and implementation of the Business Projects.
• Present and negotiate with customer, senior management, and IT teams.
• Facilitate the definition of program scope, goals and deliverables.
• Create Executive Status Reports and Roadmaps.
• Develop full scale Project plans working with various IT and Business teams.
• Assemble and coordinate Program staff and manage program resource allocation.
• Plan and schedule program timelines and necessary weekly/daily or ad hoc meetings.
• Track program deliverables and fill out the program RAID using appropriate tools.
• Provide direction and support to program team.
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the program to all stakeholders .
• Present reports defining program progress, problems and solutions, and perform risk management .
• Implement and manage program changes and interventions to achieve program outputs.
• Provide program evaluations and assessment of results throughout and post project deployment.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Program Management experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, to interact effectively with IT management, software development and test teams, and infrastructure teams.
• Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of program management.
• Knowledge of technical hardware program management techniques and tools.
• Knowledge of working with Vendor SOWs, RFPs, and contracts.
• Working knowledge of IT systems, Agile, and SDLC.
• Direct work experience in technical infrastructure and security program management capacity and vendor management.
• Proven experience in people management, strategic planning, risk management, and change management.
• Solid experience with GSuite, Visio, and MSProject or Smartsheet
• Enterprise software releases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, Engineering, or related degree preferable.

Desired Skills and Knowledge Areas:

• Ability to communicate effectively with senior level executives.
• Strong negotiation/facilitation skills with an ability to gain consensus
• Ability to consult with customers at a business level.
• Ability to translate and communicate a customer’s strategic opportunities into requirements for the technical teams.
• Excellent written and presentation skills and strong decision making skills.
• Ability to facilitate solutions in a complex IT technology and business environment and able to adapt quickly to change.
• Ability to manage customer expectations throughout the program implementation and delivery process.
• Ability to work on teams in a lead and participative capacity with many different and diverse stakeholders.
• Formal knowledge of Program management principles, processes, and tools.