Program Manager
Job Description
Title: Program Manager
Location: Remote
Duration: 8+ months (possibility of extension)
Job Description:
General overview:
* Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
* Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams
* Hold the team accountable to established timelines and sprint commitments, ensuring deliverables are completed as planned
* Escalate risk and help resolve team dependencies to ensure smooth workflow.
* Maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and status updates to track deliverables and blockers
* Coordinate across engineering, QA, infra, and data science teams to align on priorities and handoffs
* Document key decisions, action items, and ownership
* Support reporting and communication to stakeholders
* Financial Management
Project 1: Integrations 2.0 - Digital AI/Data Infrastructure
Project Overview:
* Drive efforts to standardize and structure unstructured data, enabling end-to-end connectivity for business use cases
* Ensure data pipelines and infrastructure align with the needs of various AI-driven business initiatives
* Focus on transitioning to agile methodology for delivering digital and AI-driven data integrations
Key Responsibilities:
* Facilitate agile project delivery (including backlog management, sprint planning, iterative improvement)
* Gather business and technical milestones and manage a variety of data-centric workstreams
* Coordinate with business owners to prioritize and deliver data integrations
* Manage backlog and status communications with technical and business stakeholders
* Drive adoption of agile processes and continuous improvement for the integration team
Desired Experience & Skills:
* Knowledge of agile project management
* Experience with technical projects
* Strong stakeholder relationship management, especially with technical, data, and business teams
* Background in data integrations or digital transformation projects preferred
Project 2: Infor Scheduling - Production Scheduling Technology (Waterfall)
Project Overview:
* Manage onboarding of new sites to Infor, including migration from on-premise to cloud
* Coordinate enhancements and improvements to existing Infor implementations
* Manage deployment timelines, project deliverables, and stakeholder relationships
Key Responsibilities:
* Plan, track, and report on scheduled deployments (Up to 3 ongoing active deployments, but most likely 2)
* Document and monitor action items, meetings, risks, and decisions
* Maintain financial tracking and budgeting
* Coordinate post-implementation communications and change management
* Bridge the gap between business needs and technical application workflows
* Conduct business process modeling and analysis for current/future state
* Manage change and build relationships with affected stakeholders (manufacturing, finance, scheduling teams, etc.)
Desired Experience & Skills:
* Experience with waterfall project management and application deployments
* Strong relationship and stakeholder management, especially with operational users (scheduling, supply chain, manufacturing)
* Financial management and reporting skills
* Change management and business analysis background
* Ability to manage multiple concurrent deployments and adapt to shifting business priorities
Additional Details:
* Years of experience/education and/or certifications required: 5+ YOE, Agile training (Scrum Certified)
Top 3-5 skills required:
1. Program/Portfolio management
2. Change/Stakeholder Management
3. Financial Management
4. Experience in Jira and MS Office
Nice to have:
1. Experience in the manufacturing/pharma industry
2. Agile certifications i.e. SCRUM, Safe, Kanban, etc.
3. Relationship management and proactive personality
4. Experience with AWS, Ignition SCADA, High Byte, or Ignition
Location: Remote
Duration: 8+ months (possibility of extension)
Job Description:
General overview:
* Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as daily standups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
* Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams
* Hold the team accountable to established timelines and sprint commitments, ensuring deliverables are completed as planned
* Escalate risk and help resolve team dependencies to ensure smooth workflow.
* Maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and status updates to track deliverables and blockers
* Coordinate across engineering, QA, infra, and data science teams to align on priorities and handoffs
* Document key decisions, action items, and ownership
* Support reporting and communication to stakeholders
* Financial Management
Project 1: Integrations 2.0 - Digital AI/Data Infrastructure
Project Overview:
* Drive efforts to standardize and structure unstructured data, enabling end-to-end connectivity for business use cases
* Ensure data pipelines and infrastructure align with the needs of various AI-driven business initiatives
* Focus on transitioning to agile methodology for delivering digital and AI-driven data integrations
Key Responsibilities:
* Facilitate agile project delivery (including backlog management, sprint planning, iterative improvement)
* Gather business and technical milestones and manage a variety of data-centric workstreams
* Coordinate with business owners to prioritize and deliver data integrations
* Manage backlog and status communications with technical and business stakeholders
* Drive adoption of agile processes and continuous improvement for the integration team
Desired Experience & Skills:
* Knowledge of agile project management
* Experience with technical projects
* Strong stakeholder relationship management, especially with technical, data, and business teams
* Background in data integrations or digital transformation projects preferred
Project 2: Infor Scheduling - Production Scheduling Technology (Waterfall)
Project Overview:
* Manage onboarding of new sites to Infor, including migration from on-premise to cloud
* Coordinate enhancements and improvements to existing Infor implementations
* Manage deployment timelines, project deliverables, and stakeholder relationships
Key Responsibilities:
* Plan, track, and report on scheduled deployments (Up to 3 ongoing active deployments, but most likely 2)
* Document and monitor action items, meetings, risks, and decisions
* Maintain financial tracking and budgeting
* Coordinate post-implementation communications and change management
* Bridge the gap between business needs and technical application workflows
* Conduct business process modeling and analysis for current/future state
* Manage change and build relationships with affected stakeholders (manufacturing, finance, scheduling teams, etc.)
Desired Experience & Skills:
* Experience with waterfall project management and application deployments
* Strong relationship and stakeholder management, especially with operational users (scheduling, supply chain, manufacturing)
* Financial management and reporting skills
* Change management and business analysis background
* Ability to manage multiple concurrent deployments and adapt to shifting business priorities
Additional Details:
* Years of experience/education and/or certifications required: 5+ YOE, Agile training (Scrum Certified)
Top 3-5 skills required:
1. Program/Portfolio management
2. Change/Stakeholder Management
3. Financial Management
4. Experience in Jira and MS Office
Nice to have:
1. Experience in the manufacturing/pharma industry
2. Agile certifications i.e. SCRUM, Safe, Kanban, etc.
3. Relationship management and proactive personality
4. Experience with AWS, Ignition SCADA, High Byte, or Ignition