Strategic Program Manager Job Description
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Strategic Program Manager Job Description
- Continuously engage with specific topics/domains as a key expert
- Take on ownership & drive the development & implementation of an agreed Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA’s) that works for all types of property related transactions applicable locally/regionally and globally
- Partner with business stakeholders to deliver business cases’ & strategic financial analysis to optimize property operating models, meet productivity targets and update on progress
- Deliver “make” vs “buy” analysis walks on various processes - Own financial analysis for regions & communicate out to regional/global financial leadership
- Engage with local/regional CFO’s on regular basis/build a rhythm
- Translate complex properties related issues into financial/business outcomes
- Interpret & Analyse data from 3 property functions (real estate/projects/operations) as one holistic end-to-end approach
- Drive capital planning/forecast/spend analysis
- Identify property restructuring opportunities and liaise with global financial leadership to implement outcomes
- Provide financial leadership to GOP Leadership & Regional organisation and support operational growth, efficiencies and strategy
- 5+ years experience in product management, business development role or consulting (preferably in software industry)
- Experience working for a multinational company is a plus
- Experience dealing with global partners and managing interactions within an international environment
- Someone with a good “stage presence”, meaning eloquent and smart in their appearance
- Capable of mastering and reacting to the pace of business – quick thinker and implementer with a high sense of urgency
- Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and projects to on-time delivery
Strategic Program Manager Job Description
- Develop, plan, and oversee events convening NDIGI students, practitioners, and the broader Mendoza / University community
- Identify, create and maintain relationships with stakeholders to include University-wide faculty, employers, alumni, and students
- Develop new courses , workshops, and programs
- Analyze and research relevant industry trends and benchmark competing institutions and programs
- Co-ordinate with various functions (in-house, suppliers & external consultant) to ensure ideas are implemented as per plan
- Escalate any delay & get support in expediting the process
- Identify opportunities for replication
- Monitoring of progress & reporting
- Coordinates financial, project management and architectural services for projects that cross functional organizations
- Establishes innovation planning activities to support driving technical solutions to the business
- Knowledge of property technical accounting
- Knowledge of FAS66/46 ARO & MAP20
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience in program and project management required, with 7+ years related experience preferred
- Demonstrated experience leading large scale transformational programs
- Demonstrated experience in relationship management to cross-functionally engage internal and external stakeholders
- Proven ability to drive task execution, resolve issues, and influence key decision makers while making recommendations for resolution of strategic risks and issues
Strategic Program Manager Job Description
- Assists in the development of business cases that effectively illustrate the value of the need -- from cost/benefits and alignment to the enterprise and business goals
- Members of the Innovation Community of Practice
- Interfaces with Strategic Planning Manager / Business Relationship Managers / Application Run Managers / IT Business Development Lead, A&I Planning team and Strategic Planning Managers
- Corporate Strategic Initiatives Planning
- Global Business Process/IT Roadmap development and validation
- Planning Team resource planning
- Department resource planning management
- Supplier Partner escalated issue management
- Writes and Executes POC projects with respect to innovation and early adaptor POCs
- Establishes and maintains an executive project dashboard for functional organization
- BS in Industrial, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Ability to work within a matrix management environment
- Proven track record of operational execution
- Working knowledge and proven application of the principles and philosophies of Lean Six Sigma
- Ability to understand customer/client issues and creatively apply solutions to real-world issues with world-class results
- Project Management Skills – Ability to organize and schedule people and tasks
Strategic Program Manager Job Description
- Benchmarking and Vendor Evaluations
- Research on latest technologies and vendor capabilities for a functional organization
- Drives contract management best practices and support for a functional organization
- Continually drives process, technology and innovation continuous improvements
- Work with the team primarily on projects which revolve around our systems, processes, procedures and strategic initiatives
- Manage overall project activities in JPS to ensure all sites and suppliers deliver great, consistent experiences to our internal and external Customers
- Create and present detailed reports to internal and Customer management as required
- Plan, execute, monitor and control all of your assigned project within the Packaging NPI Framework, where applicable
- Develop and utilize various project management techniques appropriate to the non-NPI project space
- Ensure all of the project requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution
- Ability to stay objective and fair when dealing with sensitive situations
- Strong customer focus – understand what drives customer satisfaction and prioritize customer needs
- Ability to assume a role of authority as necessary
- Ability to apply systems thinking to generate solutions
- Five to seven years of experience with successful marketing strategy development, product launch execution, and program management, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Strong project management skills with experience in leading and owning projects from start to finish with a cross-functional team
Strategic Program Manager Job Description
- Provide appropriate project communication to various organizational levels
- Serve as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsors
- Lead to resolution any Red or troubled programs
- Responsible for making decisions regarding appropriate risk identification and mitigation when there is substantial program planning impact or through lessons learned
- Lead and manage project communication, maintaining project transparency and ensuring team and resource understanding, ownership and follow-through
- Research, assess and propose new and alternate technologies for manufacturing products as required
- Anticipate opportunities for proactive solutions
- Will work as a technical writer on divisional processes and procedures
- Work with PMO and company leadership to identify ongoing training opportunities
- Work with internal team members to enhance and grow our Customer relationships
- Demonstrated high level of written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills to communicate information, ideas, procedures, and processes
- Willingness to take risks with new and innovative ideas
- Ability to effectively use office automation, communication, software, and tools used in the Herman Miller office environment including Microsoft Office Suite, Outlook, and Adobe Creative Suite
- Willingness and ability to travel 10 percent of the time
- Must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without accommodations
- Chemical and R&D experience preferred