Project/Program Manager

Software Resources has an immediate, long term contract job opportunity for a Project/Program Manager - Success Factors with a major corporation in Burbank, CA. On-site 4 days per week.

12+ month contract

Pay Rate: $90 - $97/hr DOE

This is a Hands-on project manager, in the weeds, creating, planning, managing, integrating etc. 10 - 15 yrs experience, SAP Project implementation management with a preference to Success Factors if possible.

Description:

The Sr. Program Manager, Portfolio and Planning, is a planning and execution role within Enterprise technology, responsible for supporting the portfolio planning and delivery management of the S/4 HANA platform and services ensuring technology solutions are delivered end-to-end and aligned with business capability and collaboration with support operations. This role will partner with matrix projects, resources, and 3rd party resources. The span of the role will encompass portfolio planning, project management, delivery execution, and strategic planning.

Basic Qualifications:

Role Responsibilities and Duties:

• Actively leads team and project planning and overall strategy, to include resource needs identification and forecasting

• Actively leads in establishing and tracking progress to key performance indicators

• Actively leads in monitoring and evaluating overall project health and status; analyzes data and produces actionable insights

• Actively leads in identifying problems and shortfalls and proposing solutions

• Responsible for inputs into the Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions (RAID) log pertaining to the S/4H Tech Conversion project; work resolution of items; work with project management team

• Proactively identifies issues and actively leads and/or contributes options to resolve

• Identifies and actively leads and/or contributes in the resolution of issues and conflicts

• Actively leads the management of escalations to leadership and to vendors as appropriate to drive results

• Continually apprises leadership and relevant business stakeholders of status and anything not on track

• Collaborates closely with partners across the organization including business partners, solution architects, and delivery managers

• Builds strong relationships with and partners with large and diverse groups of stakeholders at multiple levels, from end users to executives, across the enterprise

• Accountable for driving execution and delivery of projects or support programs from start to finish

• Demonstrates a clear understanding of the project/program's vision, objectives, scale and scope of work, expected outcomes, business value and impact, timelines, roadmaps, resource level requirements

• Establishes strong partnerships and engagement with project stakeholders

• Manages full-scale master project schedules and communication plans consisting of multiple teams or components

• Develops and supports governance practices and protocols to control and monitor the program/projects

• Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones, and deliverable tasks

• Actively leads project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense plans

• Actively leads the process and practice improvements in the project management environment and serves as a catalyst for project management excellence

• Establishes strong partnerships and engagement with project stakeholders

• Identifies gaps in the project team's accountability and ownership of deliverables

• Foster a team environment of self-organization, retrospect to learn and adapt with the goal of delivering the highest value to our guests and cast

Experience:

• Ability to complete projects and achieve results in an ambiguous work environment.

• Exemplary communications skills

• Ability to solve complex problems

• Innovative thinking and embraces innovation by constantly seeking new or contrary ideas and approaches to what has been done in the past.

• Strong collaboration skills and ability to establish and manage effective working relationships in a matrixed organizational structure

• Good communication and presentation skills, both oral and written. Ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences.

• Results oriented, biased toward action

• Works independently, receives minimal guidance

• Keeps fluent in new technologies and successful sharing with peers and introducing new technologies

• Demonstrates stamina, resilience and perseverance under trying circumstances

• Experience in leading technology projects or multi-threaded efforts

• Ability to lead project meetings and workshops driving commitments, accountability, and deliverables

• End-user experience in the use of modern program and project management tools, such as ServiceNow, PPM, Clarity, Smartsheet, MS Project Online, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

The Sr. Program Manager, Portfolio and Planning is a new role and was created to support the large SAP S/4 Technical Conversion project and future roadmaps associated with core finance.

The objectives are:

• Participates in project planning and overall strategy, to include resource needs identification and forecasting

• Develop and monitor key performance indicators

• As directed, participate in testing activities and support the business

• Supports project delivery activities

• Involved in strategic planning; partnering with business stakeholders for prioritization, ensures proper setup for projects and sustainment efforts

• Manages escalations to leadership and to vendors as appropriate to drive results

• Continually apprises leadership and relevant business stakeholders of status and anything not on track

• Collaborates closely with partners across the organization including business partners, solution architects, and delivery managers

• Builds strong relationships with and partners with large and diverse groups of stakeholders at multiple levels, from end users to executives, across the enterprise

Required Education:

BS

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