The Staff Program Manager will play an integral program management role in global integration programs impacting web sites as part of the Digital Programs & Engineering (DPE) team. The Staff Program Manager will be the liaison between DPE leadership, stakeholders, vendors, and various integration teams to ensure bilateral communication of capabilities, priorities, standards, and status.
**Location/Division**:Tijuana, Mexico (remote) Corporate Offices
**How will you make an impact?**
- Drive large initiatives from initiation to implementation, inclusive of hypercare support and closure.
- Coordinate multiple programs and projects simultaneously.
- Function as a liaison between DPE leadership, stakeholders, vendors, and various integration teams to ensure bilateral communication of capabilities, priorities, standards, and status.
- Influence stakeholders in a highly matrixed organization
- Oversee all aspects of assigned programs including scope, schedule, budget, resources, quality, and risk to ensure successful delivery.
- Proactively manage assigned programs to ensure milestones are achieved within plan including proactively managing execution progress, managing communications, reporting status, managing resources, managing change, removing roadblocks, and resolving conflicts
- Ensure projects adhere to the company's formal identified framework of Scaled Agile Framework (Safe)
- Create initial program budget and seek funding approval following the company's capital funding process and manage the program budget throughout its course.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders, customer relationships and third-party vendors.
- Serve as a Project and Program Management Subject Matter Expert
- Maintain extensive knowledge and expertise in the disciplines of program management as well as multiple business processes and/or technical areas.
- Provide guidance to other employees and demonstrate the ability to influence others in a positive manner.
- Participate with management and other Program Managers in establishing best practices in program management methods and tools.
- Work as a team member on special projects and other activities as needed.
**How will you get here?**
**Education**
Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
**Experience**
- 4+ years of successfully managing complex cross-functional Enterprise-level IT programs.
- 7+ years of project and/or program management with increasing responsibility and complexity
- Proven ability to work in a heavily matrixed environment.
**Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**
- Highly motivated and solution oriented with a commitment to drive results.
- Solid organization, analytical, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving skills
- Strong focus on continuous improvement with ability to quickly learn.
- Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, including facilitation and negotiation.
- Strong leadership skills with proven ability to lead in a heavily matrixed environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across all levels of organization
- Managing program budgets, schedules, plans, resource allocations, and priorities
- Various industry PM methodologies including Safe and Waterfall
- PMP, Safe and SCM certification a plus
- Act with Integrity and Trust
- MS Office 365, including advanced MS Project, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Jira Align, Jira, SharePoint, Confluence
- PlanView is a plus
