Sr Program Manager

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Job Summary:

Organizes and coordinates multiple large and/or complex customer facing or internal programs, in accordance with ACI project management methodology, while ensuring the business unit's objectives align with the technology solutions.

Provides strategic guidance to team and project managers in ways that promote ACI's culture.

Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on the delivery of new products/systems or upgrade of existing products/systems or solution.

Partners with stakeholders' business unit leaders to translate their objectives into manageable programs that will execute upon those strategies.

Monitors the program from initiation through implementation and delivery.

Accountable for planning and directing schedules, managing resource needs and monitoring budget/spending.

Organizes cross-functional activities, ensuring completion of the program on time, with agreed upon scope, within budget and of the highest quality, while managing escalation as well as program level risk and issue resolution.

Provides dashboard reporting at a program level and leads update meetings.

Must be an excellent leader and with experience in matrix managing staff of different disciplines to produce results in a timely manner.

The goal is to ensure that the program delivers desirable outcome for ACI.

Job Responsibilities:


* Takes a leadership role in managing one or more complex programs critical to the success of the customer and ACI lead team of project managers allocated to projects within the program.

Lead complex programs to create a path forward for the team.


* Manages program scope to ensure what is being delivered is consistent with what was agreed upon with all necessary stakeholders, which includes ensuring proper charter.


* Develops integrated schedule that is inclusive of all program milestones, resources, and constraints to ensure timely completion of program to achieve ROI.


* Manages program issues and risks (technical and non-technical) through identification, evaluation, tracking, communication, escalating and mediation in an orderly manner and in accordance with ACI project management methodology.


* Partners with other business unit colleagues, cross-functionally and with third-parties to build strong teams that can work through program challenges.


* Facilitates successful negotiations such as resource constraints as appropriate throughout the program.

Ensures consensus and agreement across customers and/or internal partners and project managers.


* Mentors' junior associates in program and project methodologies and best practices.


* Collaborate with peers to share les...