Program Manager - Business Process And Continuous
12+ Months W2 Contract
San Jose, CA or Lehi, UT (Hybrid)

Benefits You’ll Love: 

• NextDeavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees
• Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence
• Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match)

Become a key player as a Program Manager:
This Program Management position will be part of Volume and Scale Pricing Frameworks Team, shaping future technology strategy and driving cross-product and federal-level initiatives. We are looking for a program manager to help lead programs or projects involving departmental and cross-functional teams focused on delivering new systems and infrastructure capabilities. In this highly visible role, the program manager will help drive alignment across multiple cross-functional teams to meet key business objectives and milestones. The program manager will provide strategic program management by working with a broad set of partner organizations (Pricing Operations, Pricing Technologies, Engineering Development, Quality Assurance, and cross-functional Program Management). The candidate will also be responsible for designing and refining a set of standardized, repeatable portfolio management processes to tackle complex, cross-company initiatives and drive execution. This position will have a 45-day probationary period.

Here’s how you’ll make an impact on the team:

• Partner with senior leaders to build strategic roadmaps, transforming into execution plans and delivering against business objectives and milestones.
• Performs project planning to establish an overall project plan, including key milestones, and drives progress to achieve the project plan within time constraints.
• Understand and coordinate the sequencing of projects to make progress.
• Understands and assesses critical paths and dependencies for delivering projects and facilitates discussions between project teams, Pricing Ops, Pricing Technologies, and Engineering.
• Performs risk management duties by identifying and analyzing risk management controls and contingency plans to help increase the probability of positive events for the project.
• Aggregates, organizes, and synthesizes program and project information to communicate with the extended team and management
• Resolve misalignments across requirements, priorities, and schedule.
• Evaluates existing processes and procedures. Makes recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive release management activities to ensure the successful deployment of system capabilities.

Here’s what you’ll need to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Strong program and project management skills, demonstrating a collaborative mindset
• Experience leading transformation programs, define and establish program structure and governance frameworks
• Ability to handle complex, highly cross-functional projects with highly matrixed environment
• Ability to work with technical teams – can help translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable, and think quick on your feet given the fast change in business needs
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, and ability to develop positive relationships
• Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills with the ability to appropriately communicate with the intended audience, especially executives
• Excellent documentation skills
• Quick learner and proactive in solving problems
• System tool knowledge: SharePoint, Jira, MSFT Office, SAP, Workfront, and Pricing Tools a plus

Pay Range: 
$42.00 - $51.05/hour

Ready to make your mark? Take the leap and apply directly here: <https://nextdeavor.thepioneers.ai/jobs/fccf2bd0--program-manager-business-process-and-continuous> – your application is in good hands.