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Job#: 2033738

Job Description:

Apex has an immediate need for a Sr. Program Manager local to the Cincinnati area. Ideal candidates must have the following:

• Demonstrable Program Management experience
• Successful delivery of programs in a predominantly Agile environment and using an iterative waterfall methodology, organization, leadership, and communication.
• Program experience driving both business and technology initiatives.
• Experience in delivering rollouts of hardware deployments to sites across the US.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Establish relationship & cadence with team leads, Scrum partners, Product managers, & 3rd party vendors in the program team and with other interdependent program teams.
• Drive a sense of urgency
• Drive Action
• Metrics Tracking
• RAID Management
• Manage complex cross team dependencies (Rationalize within overall timeline)
• PMO Escalation, Drive Against Program Milestones, Issue management, tracking progress against dates and milestones
• Partner with the engineering and product managers, Report Back Thru PMO, partner with Portfolio to manage the program budget.
• Coach Project Managers within the program.
• Establish and update project and program plans with actual and forecasts and manage deviations from plan and program parameters.
• Ensure all program and project requirements and/or objectives are properly documented and vigorously pursued to deliver the final product.
• Deliver to time and cost within agreed tolerances for projects/programs.
• Provide leadership for project managers and stakeholders and apply conflict resolution skills to resolve program and project issues.
• Manage program and project risk, develop mitigation plans, and escalate decisions and unresolved issues as needed.
• Create and track schedules, budget, risks and issues
• Maintain program level communications with stakeholders at multiple levels
• Work with peers to develop and drive goals, define technical specifications and detailed implementation plans for projects/programs
• Apply skills to impact program decisions
• Focus on the benefits to be realized and the outcomes to be achieved.
• Provide coordination of complex planning activities and optimize the use of resources (human and material)
• Provide for an integration of outcomes with on-going business operations
• Manage issues as they arise among the program's component projects
• Track project's contributions to the program and toward the organizations' overall benefits and work to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent

Additional Requirements/Qualifications

• PMP certification or equivalent experience.

• Experience delivering large and/or complex projects and programs.

• Proven track record of delivering objectives on time and within budget.

• Ability to anticipate and manage project/program risks

• Confident, solution-oriented independent worker

• Dynamic presenter and facilitator skills

• Possess strong engagement management skills, strong business acumen, deep technical insights and with that have the ability to speak in both business and technical terms

• Experience with managing external customers and 3rd party vendor partners, understanding of deployment lifecycles is a plus

• Expertise in applying the systems development and project management life-cycle processes involved with implementing I.T. solutions.

• Proven problem solving and organizational skills.