Principal Program Project Manager

Principal Program Project Manager

12 Jan 2024
California, Glendale, 91201 Glendale USA

Principal Program Project Manager

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Title: Principal Program Project Manager - multiple positions

Location: Glendale, California - Remote

Duration: 12 months

Compensation: $95-$100 per hour

Work Requirements: Authorized to Work in the US

Overview:

TekPartners has some of the most sought after Information Technology positions available. As a reputable company in the IT staffing industry, you can trust us to place you in the right position. We currently have an opportunity for Principal Program Project Manager in Glendale, California - Remote.

Job Description:


  • Key Responsibilities include:
    Program and Project Estimations
    ? Facilitate scope definition, cross-functional estimates and high-level planning workshops
    ? Quantify cost factors to deliver program and project deliverables including resources, program
    and project oversight, objective risk and related contingency
    ? Document key assumptions and dependencies established through estimation activities
    ? Prepare and present high-level plans with estimates for executives and cross-functional leaders
    based on estimate outcomes
    Program and Project Planning
    ? Create full-scale master program and project schedules, including communication plans
    consisting of multiple projects or components
    ? Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones and deliverable tasks
    ? Establish program and project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense
    plans
    ? Develop program and project plans and schedules with cross discipline functional leads
    ? Ensure necessary steps and dependencies to deliver programs and projects and their
    components are established
    ? Validate that scope can be completed within timeline and budget
    ? Estimate resource needs with help from functional leads
    Program Delivery
    ? Confidently lead and drive cross-functional projects, components of large programs, and full
    programs through full delivery life-cycle ensuring project is delivered on-time and on-budget
    ? Lead program teams using pragmatic and lean approaches focused on hitting desired outcomes
    ? Execute program management and delivery using various methodologies including Scrum,
    Kanban, SAFe, as well as waterfall and effectively blend these styles as needed
    ? Manage resource assignments, budgets, scheduling, and scope prioritization, and change
    control
    ? Manage and maintain a decision log for all key decisions made on the program and
    communicate that regularly.
    ? Document and publish action items for meetings with due dates and owners and follow up to
    ensure tasks are completed before or on due date


  • ? Work with cross discipline team members to validate program and project assumptions and
    review individual program and project plans with senior leadership
    ? Ensure proper documentation of scope of work with help from cross discipline functional leads
    ? Serve as primary liaison among multiple teams, including Product Management, Design,
    vendors and other key functional delivery teams (when appropriate)
    ? Communicate weekly status updates to program and project executive leadership team on
    delivery progress, plan updates and budget spend and forecast
    ? Monitor adherence to master schedule (high level, mid level and low level plan) and milestone
    commitments
    ? Analyze labor demand vs. capacity labor to ensure efficient resource assignments
    ? Manage risks to ensure timely resolution and mitigation with clear owners, trends and impacts
    ? Prevent scope creep and facilitate change requests to ensure impacts to schedule or budget are
    approved and communicated
    ? Use metrics to drive performance, efficiency and forecast improvements
    ? Ensure proper program and project closure including retroactives/lessons learned, transition
    and hand-off to production operations support, and final financial reporting
    Supervise Delivery Project Managers
    ? May provide leadership and coaching for a small team of project managers (2 to 5 team
    members)
    ? Assist in on-boarding, training and recruitment of project management staff
    Job requirements:

  • The following qualifications are required for consideration for this role:


  • ? Has great executive presences and excellent negotiation and communication skills
    ? Program accountability for program budgets of $15M+
    ? 10+ years of relevant work experience in program management in digital/technology projects.
    Consulting experience is a plus
    ? Strong leader and decision maker with at least 8 years of experience in leading large,
    multidisciplinary digital & technology teams
    ? 7+ years Agile delivery experience
    ? Strong experience gathering and developing requirements
    ? Minimum 7 years of client management experience in successfully delivering internet solutions,
    preferably in a global client-service organization
    ? Experience in a matrixed responsibility organization working with multiple Product Managers
    per effort
    ? Possesses extensive experience in the basics of program and project management (estimation,
    program and project planning, resource planning, issue management, risk management, change
    management, communication planning), and coaching more junior team members in the PM
    practice
    ? Experienced in multiple full lifecycle software deliveries from business development to final
    software acceptance
    ? Led teams with multiple discipline representation (including product management/strategy,
    technology, design, SEO, and analytics)
    ? Proven accomplishment as a driver of multiple programs and projects


  • ? Proven track record managing individual program and project budgets and budget roll-up of
    multiple programs and projects
    ? Demonstrated analysis/assessment capabilities
    ? Able to confidently lead teams to a successful delivery approach; ability to motivate, influence,
    and drive progress
    ? Able to work both collaboratively and independently while maintaining a high level of
    productivity
    ? Able to work under tight timetables and high pressure situations
    ? Thrive in a fast-paced environment and able to juggle, shift gears, and maintain a sense of
    humor; deliver under extreme deadlines and intense business environment
    ? Must possess excellent business communication, writing, and interpersonal skills
    ? Proactive and solution-oriented when managing issues
    ? Comfortable when communicating with sr. executive level ( VPs, SVPs, EVPs) in presentations,
    working sessions, and 1-on-1 interactions
    ? Practiced in negotiating with others in ways that result in win/win agreements and outcomes


  • REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • ? Four-year college degree in Information Technology or MIS
    ? Extensive (10+ years) of program management experience, managing diverse teams and
    complex programs with budgets with $15+ Million
    ? Demonstrable experience with budget tracking, forecasting, variance reporting and complex
    cost-benefit
    ? Experience using PPM Tools e.g. Clarity PPM
    ? Experience prioritizing projects within the program and working seamlessly with various
    stakeholders in a matrix
    ? Experience in leading, supporting, and working with matrix teams
    ? Able to influence others to achieve results
    ? Able to adapt and be flexible in a dynamic environment
    ? Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously
    ? Extensive expertise in project management methodologies including but not limited to the
    Project Management Institute (PMI) PMBOK and Agile (i.e. Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, DaD).
    ? Expertise with PM tools and/or software packages.
    ? Experience in delegation management
    ? Experience in mentoring project managers
    ? Expertise in establishing project management processes


Our benefits package includes:
  • Comprehensive Medical Benefits
  • Competitive Pay, 401K
  • Retirement Plan
  • And Much More

About TekPartners:

TekPartners is one of the fastest growing private staffing firms in the United States. We are a premier provider of highly qualified IT talent, Workforce Solutions and Business Intelligence Solutions to many enterprise organizations across the nation. As experts in the industry, our team continues to match proven talent to the right job opportunity every day.

TekPartners is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Job Details

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    JC8105418
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  • Job type
    Permanent
  • Salary
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  • Hiring Company
    TekPartners
  • Date
    2021-01-11
  • Deadline
    2021-03-12
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