Program Manager – Business Capability - Lead

This is a Program manager role who is self-motivated and works collaboratively with extended team of project managers and stakeholders. Proven experience in integrated program management office functionalities including offering and enhancing the quality of existing program, financial aggregation, portfolio governance and reporting. Preferred hands on experience with portfolio and project management tools including Servicenow.

Outline of key responsibilities & deliverables :

• Strong post-merger/acquisition integration background and experience in coordinating between various functional teams and IT stakeholders, upstream and downstream dependencies across the organization.
• Oversee planning and execution of large sized merger and integration programs, developing and conducting the Integration team kickoff and planning workshops.
• Monitor multiple projects through the entire program cycle including overall schedule and milestones/including but not limited to application disposition, retirements and archival.
• Communicate with project managers to address potential risks/Solve problems and issues.
• Deliver on intended outcomes while collaborating on evolving ideas and discovery of new requirements to maximize return on investments.
• Identify dependencies, evaluate risks, and communicate status to appropriate levels of management and stakeholders.
• Ensure program deliverables, schedules, and financials adhere to established norms and are managed in alignment with CLIENT standard practices.
• Periodically evaluate performance and develop action plans to ensure achievement of performance goals.
• Monitor and control schedule and financial health of the assigned program and project (s) and provide actionable insights to key stakeholders.
• Proactively remove obstacles to drive assigned program momentum and progress. Engage and energize the various functional project team(s).
• Plan and engage necessary resources across the enterprise to ensure successful completion of assigned program/projects (s).
• Manage vendors providing services to the project(s) ensuring they meet their execution milestones and remain within their funding estimates.
• Prepares all program/project status reports and documentation to keep project sponsors informed of project progress and potential risks/roadblocks so they can take appropriate action.
• Actively engage stakeholders of problem project(s) to assist with identifying corrective actions.
• Advise and consistently apply Program/Project Management best practices (including Agile and SDLC) and tools. Continuously improve our adoption and maturity of best practices.
• PMP, or equivalent certification, preferred but not required.
• Proven experience managing application development projects; strong working knowledge of common SDLC models.
• Agile experience preferred but not required.
• Prepare monthly progress and program budget/spend reports to leadership team.
• Assist team members and project managers when needed to accomplish team goals.
• Experience in Project and Portfolio management tool such as ServiceNow is highly preferred.

Experience and Skills :

• Strong background in post-merger/acquisition integration management in pharma industry.
• Solid grasp of portfolio and program framework.
• Experience reporting Program / Project status to senior leadership.
• Strong Stakeholder building and relationship skills.
• Financial Management for large Programs including estimation and implementation program budgets.
• Strong vendor management skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Exposure to data analytical tools such as Power BI and methodologies.
• Able to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.