Senior Program Manager M/F

As a member of the GPMO team you are expected to:

• Participate in pre-sales, Capture, activities for the most complex opportunities, and then lead the resulting delivery engagement;
• Be a strong team player, assisting the overall team and your peers to achieve success;
• Ensure that you, and the teams you lead, are exemplars for the behaviors and standards expected for a world class delivery organization;
• Continuously maintain your professional skills through training, certification and, most importantly, by successfully delivering complex programs;
• Be an active member of the WW Project Manager community;
• Be willing to engage internationally.

You will participate as part of an integrated team responsible for:

• Supporting pre-sales, capture, activities to help secure our largest programs and ensure they are setup for successful delivery;
• Successful engagement execution on large complex programs to achieve on time, on budget and on expectation delivery;
• Maintaining program delivery quality, profitability and customer satisfaction, among other metrics;
• Ensuring strong program governance;
• Fostering and maintaining relationships with senior external and internal stakeholders to correctly manage expectations and achieve successful program outcomes;
• Making others successful.

This will also include:

• Delivering programs of work within the constraints of a scope, schedule, feature, functionality, and budget;
• Ensuring that you, your team, and the program operate within Microsoft and customer policies and guidelines;
• Cost and schedule performance utilizing Earned Value Management System (EVMS)
• Establishing a strategy of continuous risk management that enables proactive decisions and actions throughout the program life cycle;
• Throughout the program, consistently evaluate the team's activities to identify opportunities for the creation or reuse of Intellectual Property (IP);
• Active engagement of your peers to support you in the successful execution of your role;
• Active sharing of experience and learnings with the broader Project Management Community within Enterprise Services through mentoring, publishing, presentation and participation in community activities.
• Work with and manage partners effectively
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Participation in the pre-sales, capture process - approximately 20% of time;
• Program execution - approximately 70% of time;
• PjM community related activity - approximately 10% of time.