Program Manager

Provides expert content/professional leadership on complex Program Management assignments/projects. Supports the delivery of a strategic program representing a major company initiative by providing central expertise, governance, and control within or independent of a formal Program Management Office (PMO). Responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling resources/processes to achieve project/program objectives within scope, time, quality, and budget constraints. Manages large programs or processes. Interprets internal or external issues and recommends solutions/best practices. Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions. May lead functional teams or projects. Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives. Uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders. Focuses on providing thought leadership within Program Management but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert.

Skills

• Strong communication skills
• Ready to learn new business processes
• Interpersonal skills
• Adaptability
• Team working - internal/external
• Customer Focus - internal/external
• Good business/product knowledge
• Organizational skills
• Good time management
• Negotiation skills
• Decision making
• Advanced Microsoft applications – Word, Outlook, Excel, Project, Visio
• Identification of problems and problem solving

Education and Experience

The suitable candidate must be able to demonstrate strong experience in the following areas:

• Bachelor's degree REQUIRED
• 5 years Program Management experience
• Experience working on compliance-related projects or within a compliance department or organization
• Strong stakeholder identification and management
• Experience working within a program governance framework
• Strong communication skills and the ability to tailor communications to specific audiences
• Proven experience working on business and IT projects with an understanding of the software delivery lifecycle as well as operational adoption of new processes.
• Business Analysis techniques such as process modeling, root cause analysis, data models, process maps, and traceability are very desirable.
• Ability to lead requirements and specifications workshops and facilitate effective discussion
• Ability to lead project delivery planning, estimation, resourcing, risk identification, and delivery management

Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area. Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.

iTech Solutions, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.