Title: Program Manager Location: Newark, NJ / NYC ( Look for local candidates preferably who are open to commute to client office in Newark, NJ or NYC if required by client ) Duration: Full time
Job description
Senior PMO candidates with excellent Project Management Office experience with 10-15+ year total IT experience.
Experience with large multi-year, multi-vendor programs with Banks and Financial institutions
Experience of end-to-end PMO activities / Experience of leading the PMO group or groups of PMOs
Guide definition and creation of critical path, including dashboard views
Assist in plan creation including integration of each workstream plan into overall integrated plan
Support creation of E2E critical path incorporating plans from each team
Inform teams and coordinate data from both upstream and downstream dependencies to guide overall plan creation
Aligns closely to control tower scope including PMO, governance, and reporting
Synthesizes state of the program to provide periodic executive readouts and comms across the org
Manages overall measuring, tracking, and reporting of execution progress, integrated plan updates, and change requests
Identify and optimize dependencies within plan to manage critical path
Identify program level risks, issues, and coordinate resolution across workstreams
Support change request management and maintenance of capacity status and burn-down rate
Prepare exec level meeting materials, coordinate meetings, set agenda, coordinate follow-ups, and action items
Support periodic executive meetings and ensure program level decisions, risks, and issues are understood and actioned
Risk/issue identification, understanding, development of remediation plan, and leading delivery of remediation
Manage relationship within focus workstream, including periodic exec communications covering milestone management, progress reviews, and facilitating alignment on key decisions
End-to-end PM assistance to support delivery roadmap and implementation plan. Includes requirement reviews, project planning and plan updates, risk assessment, dependencies, issue escalation, reporting, and troubleshooting
Support workstream leads on execution of program management activities including governance standards, meeting cadence, and recommendations to address risk and issues
Key deliverables :
Standard metric reporting and analytics
Process optimization, design, development, continuous improvement
Regular executive summary, project status, progress reviews, including program and team level outlook and detailed plan for next 1-2 sprints along with high level long term (1-3 months) timeline
Coordination of total program Product Increment planning sessions with leadership and functional teams to develop and outline short and long term (3 month) epics, features, and stories
Program level meeting coordination
Risk/Issue identification, management, and remediation
Program communications
Regular program management and leadership cadence
Change management and Governance
Resource demand planning across program
Thanks and regards, Surya B CH Kani Solutions, Inc 155 Village Blvd, Suite 205, Princeton, NJ 08540.
