Program Manager

ICDS RECRUITMENT

Waterford

Program Manager - County Waterford. In this role you will facilitate and lead strategic initiatives for a defined customer (internal or external) or user. Provide management and guidance to multi-functional project teams. Manage and enhance customer relationships. Provide full accountability for project budgets, schedules, project management, and performance requirements for enterprise level projects. CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Technical Requirements: • Responsible for ensuring all of the project requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution. • Build team(s) to address the project goals and objectives for multiple and/or enterprise level projects. • Collaborate with customer (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance. • Align the program team to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the enterprise project. • Review project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators allocated to projects. • Provide guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goal and corporate initiatives. • Communicate project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives. • Serve as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsor(s. • Devise creative solutions to critical customer and user needs. • Manage development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) or metrics. • Responsible for recognising project's Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manage the work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints. • Obtain and summarise current project information and milestone status versus project performance baseline. • Drive project/program tasks to completion in accordance with the project schedule. • Coordinate the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks. • Management of Resource capacity and time tracking allocated to enterprise level project. • Financial Management and analysis of costs for enterprise level projects and programs including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER’s), travel, training, resources allocation and other project related costs. • Responsible for forecasting project budget and HR needs for current and future site needs. • Accountable for overall project success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management. • Balance the cost, schedule and time frames against the enterprise level project requirements. • Report project status, issues and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results. • Provide leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement. • Recognize potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solution. • Identify best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e. modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems. • Provide key stakeholders with regular project performance status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions (if required. • Participate in the exchange of ideas and information within the department and with other corporate facilities to ensure best practices are shared throughout the company. • Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management. • Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority. • Coach others through difficult decision-making situations. • Design and facilitate training related to implementation of enterprise initiatives. • Engage and collaborate with customers within to obtain greater understanding of and evaluate. • Drive relevant, concise and effective communication through a variety of mediums. • Design clear and consistent messages for a variety of diverse audiences, ensuring relevance and effectiveness of delivery. • Working closely with communications, stakeholders , and management to stay informed of important company information to evaluate and measure program effectiveness and impact on the business. Interested applicants should have: • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred. • Must be adept at navigating the diversified landscape with respect to country cultures, company divisions and internal hierarchies. • Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and e-mail skills required. • Bachelor’s degree required. • Minimum five (5) years work-related experience required in project management or related discipline. • Or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.

1006 days ago