Senior IT Program Manager

Role: Senior IT Program Manager
Location: Pleasanton, CA ( Hybrid)
Type: 12 months+. or 6 months C2H



What are the responsibilities expected of this worker?
• Provide leadership, assume accountability for the planning, design, development, and delivery of multiple projects within the Warehouse Replenishment and Supplier Management product lines.
• Work closely with an Engineering Lead who is responsible for overall solution.
• Execute and successfully complete projects within the approved budget and schedule, ensuring that high quality solutions are delivered.
• Work closely with Program Management Office, to uphold the guidelines, best practices, and compliance adherence across multiple projects.
• Partners with the business stakeholders, Enterprise Architects, IT PMO, IT Security, Application Development / Support, and IT Infrastructure teams, along with third party vendors, to create detailed plans for both Supply Chain and cross-domain initiatives.
• Participate in the development of cost benefit analysis, associated budgets and tracking of actual costs spent vs budget and regularly report the project status to management.
• Responsible for putting together cross-project dependencies, roadmaps, and timelines across projects.
• Host and lead cross-track project/program meetings and manage project/program level communications.
• Manage risks and issues that span across the projects, with responsibility to provide cross-track project/program visibility and necessary reports/updates to senior leadership teams.
• Bring alignment with stakeholders, leadership team and other Project Managers as needed with top-down vision, goals, and business objectives for successful completion of projects. Manage stakeholder expectations while building partnerships and successful solution adoption and results delivery.
• Perform regular reviews for project/program status, metrics, financial reporting, KPIs to ensure successful project implementation. Foster a strong work environment that rewards individual and team efforts; encourages creativity while maintaining high caliber productivity and quality.
• Partner with Fulfilment, Demand Planning, Manufacturing and Finance IT Directors, IT PMO, Application Delivery, and Services and Support teams to create detailed plans for the overall program/projects.
• Track time and attendance of project team members, review vendor invoices and timesheets, review SOWs and Change Orders as necessary for the project needs.
• Flexibility and ability to work collaboratively within a matrixed environment.

What are the skills for an ideal candidate?
• Must 2-3 years of supply chain domain exp
• Strong skills in project planning, budget estimation and management, resource planning and assessment, financial planning, and risk assessment.
• Must have experience working in an iterative / agile project development methodology.
• Must have previous experience managing / delivering large programs/projects in Supply Chain, and Retail organizations.
• Ability to do project planning, budget estimation and management, resource planning and assessment, financial planning, and risk assessment.
• Experience in working with offshore / onshore model.
• Ability to plan and coordinate project activities across business and technical teams.
• Ability to manage cross-track program level risks, interdependencies across projects.
• Must possess superior problem-solving skills, be action-oriented and decisive.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure to balance competing priorities to meet project deadlines.
• Ability to effectively articulate and present complex concepts, ideas and strategies to senior leadership and end-users.
• Strong ability to collaborate across various groups, build relationships and manage effectively in a matrix organization.
• Extensive creativity, drive, high energy level, and the ability to self-manage.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communications skills.

What technology is required for this role?
• Strong knowledge of Project Management Methodology and Tools (e.g.MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, Visio, PPT, Oracle PPM (nice to have) etc.) with a strong knowledge of Project Management disciplines.

Years of experience required: 10+ years project management in IT/software development with demonstrated evidence of increasing growth and responsibility. EM is ok with candidates who have 10 years of software development background who moved to project management (ex: 5 years development and 5 years Sr PM experience)

Education/Certifications: 4-year degree (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or relational functional field) and / or equivalent combination of education or work experience. Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification a plus; MBA a plus