Program Lead Job Description
Program lead
provides program management leadership for full life-cycle development of SPC systems & services, including definition of system requirements, design, development, integration, testing, deployment and maintenance.
Program Lead Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Promote continual process improvement consistency and quality of execution of IT controls
Provide regular inputs and manage progress reporting, working with the transition managers, to the Global Program Lead and PMO
Drive make vs
Manage the transition process on an end-to-end basis
Establish new governance, primarily to provide design guidance to ongoing stress testing initiatives
Develop solid relationships with key stakeholders involved in ongoing IB stress testing initiatives, CCAR
Represent ACS on assigned Cyber Security initiatives, understanding their technical and operational impact, and communicate to ensure alignment with organization risk model and strategies
Support the solutioning and timely remediation of Audit Findings to include communication and evidence gathering
Generate program analytics and communications that support a common understanding of compliance risks and required actions to remediate
Submit and track personnel actions for termination of employment
Program Lead Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Program Lead
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, ASQ, DAWIA, III, PMI, CPR, ISO, MS, CBAB, ITIL
Education for Program Lead
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the program lead job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Education, Business, Science, Computer Science, Management, Technical, Computer, Business/Administration, MBA
Skills for Program Lead
Desired skills for program lead include:
Software development
Test processes to support activities across the program life cycle
Systems integration
BOEs
Contracts
Earned Value Management System
SOWs
Excel
Manufacturing
Product life cycle from design through sustainment
Desired experience for program lead includes:
Familiarity with the THIRA process and other homeland security and emergency management principles
5+ years of related industry experience preferred
Strong technical program management experience with a focus on Agile development methodology a plus
Technical aptitude and ability to communicate with technical teams is a plus
Proficiency in Java a plus
Minimum 7 years of expert experience in technology operations and project and program implementations, preferably within an Asset Manager, Trading environment, back office
Program Lead Examples
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Program Lead Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of program lead. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for program lead
- Responsible for meeting program objectives such as technical performance, non-recurring cost, recurring cost targets, inventory and risk management
- Supporting the SVP and Finance in ensuring System integrator costs are processed effectively and within policy
- Supporting the SVP and Finance in ensuring other project costs are identified recorded and reported effectively and that all change requests are made available to the finance team to ensure more effective cost management
- Have responsibility for maintaining the TEP roadmap and work closely with the CCT team to communicate to stakeholders changes to the roadmap
- Carry forward lessons learned from earlier waves and ensure that the TEP leadership are following up on actions agreed at lessons learned reviews and effectively implementing recommendations into the project
- Leading the coordination and of strategic initiatives outside of the TEP program across functions and geographies which may not neatly fit into a specific workstream or function
- Together with the SVP and Program finance lead put in place Project norms around compliance to project policies and processes ensure that Purchase orders are raised appropriately, ensure and report on governance with the Change request process
- Monitoring and reporting on program team membership highlighting variances from plan and recommending actions to revert back to plan where necessary
- Acting as an adviser to the SVP - Transformation and TEP senior management team
- Assist the SVP - Transformation in facilitating effective decision-making, manage regular meeting cadence and governance (attendance tracking, taking minutes, action register, centralising documents ) on behalf of the SVP, ensuring that all risks are highlighted, all team members highlight agenda items and follow through on actions
Qualifications for program lead
- Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Engineering or equivalent
- Strong analysis and reporting
- Previous success engineering enzyme expression and/or activity
- Prior experience in program management including timeline and milestone management
- Prior experience in industrial enzyme expression hosts a plus
- Advisory approach to interacting at senior levels within client organizations
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of program lead. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for program lead
- Primary liaison with engineering for issue resolution
- Network with engineering, fleet management, commercial and program management teams to identify solutions to reliability and contractual issues
- Lead customer formal program interaction reviews, readiness
- Provide interpretation of complex requirements
- Participate with Integrated Product Teams (IPT) to drive resolution of quality issues which may impact product performance and/or delivery results
- Lead sites and teams to effective improvements using various ACE/Lean/Six Sigma Tools
- CRM vendor management
- Support the management of the cross functional lead-to-service working group to lead and coordinate SFDC and related applications development and deployments, including change management
- Lead SFDC developers and related applications developers in the successful delivery of project based and sustaining deliverables
- Help build ongoing training and refresher programs for users including documentation, guides and recordings
Qualifications for program lead
- Bachelor’s degree in management, science, engineering, math, or a related field
- Current DHS Suitability is highly desired
- Builds and maintains effective relationships with resources, stakeholders, colleagues and leaders
- Assume accountability of tracking, monitoring, removing roadblocks and reporting for assigned program area
- A minimum of 4 years of experience managing employees
- A minimum of 8 year of experience managing projects
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a program lead. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for program lead
- Monitoring the quality status during the R&D process, reviewing the correctness and integrity of the basic data for design, prompting every milestone of the project to reach the standard according to the IPD flow
- Monitoring the FCR status of the products in market, organizing analysis once FCR Higher
- Advise management on health and safety regulatory compliance and leading practices
- Provide guidance on new and or ambiguous regulatory health and safety program requirements
- Understand the state of the art, emerging trends in the field, and benchmark Phosphate practices and systems with other organizations
- Work with Operations to identify and determine controls for safety hazards and/or management system aspects
- Support Phosphate’s EHS strategy and aspirations as a safety and health leader within the company
- Manage the portfolio of operational control and management system improvement projects from idea generation to strategic execution
- Provide strategic insight and evaluation of the organization’s progression
- Provide coaching and counseling throughout the project lifecycle and implementation
Qualifications for program lead
- Drive the KTP nomination process
- Drive the recruitment and selection process with managers, HRBPs and recruiters
- Market the RCS Key Talent Program and RCS Graduate Program and manage internal and external communication
- Act as a Project Manager for the RCS Key Talent Program organization which consists of training content owners, internal and external trainers, suppliers and the Shared Services team, to ensure a smooth and effective delivery on target and on budget
- Willingness for occasional travelling-less than 10% per year both internal and international
- Demonstrates diplomacy, positive attitude and flexibility
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a program lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for program lead
- Audit Production Parts List
- Attend Program Related Meetings
- Analyze E2 Work Orders and GPDS for Comprehensive Scope of Change
- Assure Parts Lists meet On-Time Metrics with first time Quality
- Coordinate Work Orders
- Mentor & Support Release activities with TC-India Specification Team
- Program design to develop and promulgate various methods of community engagement around disaster preparedness, response and recovery
- Monitor effectiveness and efficiency of community engagement programs and guidance
- Identify approaches to increase the number and proportion of local partners, organizations and other stakeholders engaged in preparedness, response, and recovery year over year
- Collaborate with other disaster cycle functions inside and outside the organization to develop a comprehensive approach to community engagement around disaster
Qualifications for program lead
- 4+ years experience managing programs or projects that involve complex engineering initiatives, diverse stakeholders, global facilities, and constrained budgets
- Understanding and experience with maintaining cost, schedule, performance components of a project
- Demonstrated experience with developing and presenting synthesized and comprehensive project status to senior government officials on a regular basis
- Demonstrated experience with supporting project initiation, planning and design, execution, monitoring and control, and closure using industry standard best practices
- Ability to implement lessons learned, process improvement, and recommend enhancements to current processes and procedures
- Ability to document project status to include system configuration changes
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a program lead. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for program lead
- Excellent presentation skills – with the ability to identify what and how information should be presented according to the audience
- Consult with local managers, project managers and other key players to define scheduling/forecasting requirements to meet call center metrics and communicate workforce scheduling and intra-day operations objectives
- Supervise 30 Program Assistants and their teams
- Work with administration and Program Assistants
- Directly communicate with external constituents/ sponsors and serve as liaison for the Partnership
- Ensure the safety the PA’s that of the students during all activities and movement to the various locations
- Serve as primary contact for program needs on assigned shift, in the absence of program coordinator
- Supervise a variety of events such as game night, club meetings and other planned activities
- Perform mediation between the Program Assistants and/or students
- Actively complies with all rules and regulations established for the Partnership
Qualifications for program lead
- Demonstrated capability to monitor and manage multiple initiatives concurrently, excellent staff management skills
- Strong customer facing skills and executive presence, ability to influence and motivate clients and employees - Proven ability to manage customer expectations and perform stakeholder management and become “Trusted Advisor”
- Experience with working in a multi-cultural global environment
- Coordinates and performs detailed technical and business analysis efforts of high complexity
- Must be detailed-oriented, results-driven, highly energetic and motivated
- Drives implementation of multiple, highly complex project/program initiatives typically requiring confidentiality and enterprise-level visibility to achieve strategic business goals and operational objectives