at Apex Systems in CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job#: 2005567
Job Description:
Program Manager IV
Job responsibility as follows:
As a Program Manager:
* Actively manage and deliver complex Agile and Waterfall projects of $20M or less while managing risks and issues to minimize scope, budget, and schedule impacts
* Partner with finance, project teams, and value stream owners to ensure all financial cadences (e.g., quarterly budgeting cycles, month-end closings, etc...) are supported by and aligned to portfolio financials
* Ensure compliance to project delivery methods, tools, framework, and IT controls.
* Develop plans for resource allocation, timeline, and budget to develop an overall project plan.
* Collaborate with delivery teams and Project Managers of other, related projects, to map and plan for dependencies.
* Outline and define clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities for the team members?to?maintain clarity on?requirements, generally through the creation of a project charter.
* Develop blueprints and roadmaps to lay down the possible failures and exceptions,?in order to?manage the risk and?uncertainty associated with the launch of new solutions.
* Synthesize and implement technological projects that are customized to meet an organizations needs.
* Report progress, risk mitigation, and any updates to the initial resource, timeline, and budget plans to relevant?stakeholders.
* Deliver the project while meeting the expectations of relevant IT and business stakeholders.
* Run periodic meetings to monitor and track progress of project execution ensuring KPIs are being met and?adherence to standard procedures for its delivery (examples include following SLAs, timelines, budget, sourcing/?partnerships needed, vendor selection & onboarding, etc.) is maintained.
* Create and drive project dashboards reflecting weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual status (as needed) to facilitate?transparent and regular communication with stakeholders and focus on improving the operational performance of the?project.
* Assist in the process of balancing the interdependencies between the managed project and other projects to identify?and plan for/ address these interdependencies.
* PMO Maturity, Process & Tools:
o Execute upon and contribute to process improvements and best practices across PMO to support delivery excellence
o Actively drive the transformation of waterfall projects to agile
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