Program Leader

Job Title : Program Leader

Location :  Twin Cities, MN –Hybrid : 4 days in office

Duration : 6 months

Position Summary :

The Program Leader is responsible to actively manage the delivery of a portfolio of projects while ensuring the program has sufficient governance, infrastructure, financial management, resource management and planning to successfully deliver scope within schedule and cost. Throughout the life cycle of the program, this role is expected to engage key stakeholders and leaders across the organization and to provide strategic leadership to individual project managers.

Key Responsibilities :

• Assisting in the optimization, prioritization and execution of the portfolio by ensuring the business case is credible, facilitating the Investment Optimization (IO) planning process and providing thought leadership on the constraints, costs, and implementation strategies required to provide optimal execution and achievement of reengineering goals.
• Providing vision, leadership and innovation to project teams responsible for the delivery of the program's projects that are often complex, cross-organizational initiatives in support of strategic objectives.
• Ensuring goals, metrics and objectives of the program are clearly defined and agreed upon with the program sponsorship / steering committee and cascaded throughout the program team.
• Negotiating with organizational managers to initiate or continue programs and / or projects based on business performance and available organizational resources.
• Providing strategic management of the program to achieve the organizational objectives, including optimal resource allocation for both the implementation and ongoing maintenance of the program.
• Assessing and monitoring the program's performance and implementing corrective actions to keep program on track and within budget.
• Maintaining the financial gating process for the program, providing leadership and guidance to the project managers while holding them accountable to the established project plans.
• Developing and maintaining a roll-up work plan which indicates the program's key dependencies, resources, timeframe for completion, deliverables, risks, issues and progress against plan and providing an update to the Steering Committee while outlining key escalations and decisions required.
• Conducting periodic briefings and status updates to executive sponsors and program Steering Committee and facilitating discussions to resolve issues and obtain sign off.
• Building and sustaining key relationships with stakeholders to ensure that outcomes and goals are achieved.
• Providing leadership to ensure that all policies and procedures are adopted and successful in the PMO. Proposing enhancements to the organization's Project Management Methodology / Framework.
• Ensuring adequate controls exist for underlying projects and that all projects are managed within the company's project delivery framework founded on the CMMi methods.

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