Project Manager - NA East Coast
Location: Ashburn, VA
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*** Our position has a preference for the employee to reside on the East Coast
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Program management involves identifying and coordinating the inter-dependencies among projects, products, and other important strategic initiatives across an organization.
This includes:
- Overseeing the whole program, which could be split into sub-projects managed by different project managers.
- Managing the program and therefore the interaction of different project managers / teams
- Delivering successful program outcomes.
In an organizational context, a program refers to a group of related projects (or a combination of projects and programs) that together support a strategic business initiative. This initiative could include launching a product, implementing a new sales process, or opening a new location.
The program manager’s job is to take a high-level view of the entire program, and strategically guide project managers to ensure they are all working effectively toward the program’s objectives:
- Implement program within given budget, timeline and quality
- Customer satisfaction in service implementation
- Efficiency in delivery of Programs
- Follow PLC process landscape and compliance requirements
- Take accountability and responsibility towards assigned process roles
- Time objective: Spend of budgeted time on planned tasks
- Documentation of all steps, decisions and checklist in the Product Lifecycle
- Develop and improve the PLC process [Senior level]
- Onboard and train new Program Managers [Senior level]
- UTIMACO values
- Leads and/or coordinates cross-functional project/program teams from design to delivery of fully-developed products that are ready for customer use
- Daily program management throughout the program/product life-cycle
- Defines the program governance
- Plans the overall program and monitors the progress
- Defines cross-functional interfaces
- Manages and utilizes resources across projects
- Coordinates program time schedules
- Manages the program’s budget
- Manages overlapping program risks and issues and takes corrective measurements
- Coordinates the program and its inter-dependencies
- Manages stakeholders’ communication
- Maintains and manages Workflow Approvals (PLC Gates)
- Defines new process steps and improvements, automations and tools [Senior]
- Leads a group of Program Managers [Senior]
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- Aligns deliverables to the program’s outcome
- Manages the main program documents
- Manages common change management
- Monitors performance and recommends schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions
- Investigates facts and develops solutions to problems during the design and planning phases
- Contributes to and liaises with product management, supply chain management, production, marketing, engineering and sales
- Identify, analyze, and mitigate risks associated with program activities.
- Develop contingency plans to address potential challenges or delays.
- Manages own productivity but as well other program manager and stakeholders productivity [Senior duties]
- Drives implementation of new tools, educate other stakeholders and program manager and develops trainings within Utimaco Academy [Senior duties]
Drive and manage time reporting, including tool and process support for all relevant stakeholders in the PLC process [Senior duties]
