Global Enterprise IT Program Leader

North Point Technology; Maumee (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

North Point Technology is seeking a Program Manager to lead large, high-risk enterprise programs across multiple projects in a global manufacturing context. You will guide cross-functional teams, manage vendors, and mentor project managers to achieve program objectives.

Responsibilities include developing integrated plans, controlling scope, schedules, budgets, and risks, and ensuring enforcement of PMO standards.

Qualifications

• Five to nine years of project management, program management, or related professional experience.
• Progressive experience in project-management and leadership positions within a large or comparably complex organization.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects or programs valued at $2 million or more.
• Successful history of delivering multiple large-scale implementation projects on time and within budget.
• Experience managing programs consisting of multiple projects, workstreams, teams, and dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional business and IT teams using a formal project-management methodology.
• Full software development lifecycle experience, including multiple end-to-end technology implementations.
• Experience developing integrated program plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, estimates, dependencies, and status reports.
• Experience managing program risks, issues, changes, testing activities, and implementation readiness.
• Strong project and program financial-management experience, including budgeting, cost tracking, and forecasting.
• Experience managing vendors, procurement activities, proposals, and requests for proposals.
• Knowledge of project-management standards and practices established by the Project Management Institute.
• Familiarity with organizational change-management principles and practices.
• Thorough understanding of enterprise business systems and processes.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Project and other relevant project-management and productivity applications.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, listening, and presentation skills.
• Professional fluency in reading, writing, and speaking English.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple interrelated projects within large, complex, and strategically important enterprise programs.
• Plan, direct, facilitate, and coordinate program activities and resources to achieve business objectives on time, within budget, and at the required level of quality.
• Manage program scope, schedules, budgets, dependencies, deliverables, risks, issues, resources, and success criteria.
• Ensure individual projects remain aligned with the program’s overall strategic objectives and anticipated organizational benefits.
• Identify and coordinate the business, IT, technical, and vendor resources required to build high-performing program teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans, project schedules, work breakdown structures, estimates, resource plans, milestones, and dependency maps.
• Establish strong relationships with business stakeholders and ensure program activities support organizational goals.
• Facilitate and document program charters, business requirements, approvals, governance materials, and other program-specific documentation.
• Coordinate program reviews and obtain required stakeholder and executive approvals.
• Develop the overall testing strategy and oversee integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect resolution, and implementation readiness.
• Identify, document, elevate, and manage complex program risks and issues through closure.
• Analyze complex situations and data to determine appropriate solutions and achieve the best possible program outcomes.
• Maintain program-level risk, issue, action, dependency, and decision logs.
• Oversee vendor relationships, procurement activities, proposals, and requests for proposals associated with assigned programs.
• Develop and execute effective organizational and technical change-management plans.
• Lead program-status meetings with business, IT, project-management, vendor, and executive stakeholders.
• Prepare and deliver program-status reports, financial updates, risk assessments, and executive presentations.
• Track, manage, and forecast program financials to ensure costs are properly controlled, accounted for, and communicated.
• Serve as a mentor, advisor, escalation point, and decision-maker for project managers assigned to the program.
• Establish accountability across project teams and support project managers in resolving delivery challenges.
• Capture lessons learned and maintain program documentation for use on future enterprise initiatives.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of PMO standards, processes, procedures, templates, and tools.
• Promote consistent adoption of established project and program management methodologies.

Skills

Project management

Program management

Leadership

Budgeting

Vendor management

Risk management

Cross-functional

MS Project

Communication

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Clarity

Open Workbench

Microsoft Project

Job description

North Point Technology is seeking a Program Manager to lead large, high-risk enterprise programs across multiple projects in a global manufacturing context. You will guide cross-functional teams, manage vendors, and mentor project managers to achieve program objectives.

Responsibilities include developing integrated plans, controlling scope, schedules, budgets, and risks, and ensuring enforcement of PMO standards.