Principal Program Manager

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Principal Program Manager role is responsible for the leadership and delivery of Enterprise programs that include multiple projects spanning across business verticals and impact significant organizational Strategic Initiatives.

This position operates at an expert level to ensure strategic program deliverables and goals are clearly defined and successfully achieved.

Programs include a collection of projects or complex multiple workstreams to achieve a strategic goal.

This role will use the organization's defined project delivery lifecycle and company/industry standard project management methodologies and tools.

The Principal Program Manager is accountable for ensuring program scope, budget and timelines are managed within defined tolerance.

This includes ensuring the optimization of budget and resources utilization across projects and workstreams within the program.

The Principal Program Manager will provide stakeholder management and communications at the executive and board level, ensure risks are identified and have a mitigation plan.

This role will be responsible for providing insights and recommendations to sponsors and executives on how to successfully deliver the maximum value against program goals.

The Principal Program Manager will lead the team in innovative ways to solve unique and complex problems and manage risk.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:
• Defines the overall objectives and key deliverables at the program level; proactively manages and tracks key measures of success using leading indicators.

Ensures the development of a comprehensive plan that incorporates deliverables, accountabilities, and timelines across the program.

Ensures there is clarity on how the metrics are achieved and governs the process.

Appropriate escalates issues to ensure success of the program.

Provides regular status reporting on plan progress as defined by the enterprise project management office (EPMO) standards.
• Recommends and manages delivery approach at a program level, ensuring alignment across all teams to deliver the expected value.
• Ensures program level and project alignment/adhere to NMDP EPMO guidelines.
• Proactively manages and leads risk management and mitigation.

Appropriately escalates risks and champions recommendations to sponsors and steering team members to enable effective decision making.
• Provides leadership to program and project resources in a manner that ensures timely delivery on commitments/tasks in support of broader program deliverables.

Aligns cross-organizational resources to ensure successful delivery of program goals.

Effectively identifies program resource requirements and works with plan sponsors and project managers to ensure adequately skilled resources are available to deliver on program commitments.

Ensures most efficient use of resources across workstreams/projects within a program.
• Partners with business sponsors, subject matter experts, vendors and other key stakeholde...