Full-Time Principal Program Manager

We are seeking an accomplished leader with extensive experience leading Global ERP transformation programs with budgets that can exceed $35 million.

Project Professional: Understands the need to communicate, influence, and drive change through organizations. Has experience working with program and project teams in a matrix structured, geographically dispersed organization.

Leader Qualifications: Extremely professional, organized, detail-oriented, and can efficiently multi-task.

Liaison Role: This leader will be the liaison between the business and technology for client project teams, Hitachi internal teams, Executive Sponsors, and external vendors.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide leadership for technical, cost control, and operational actions to meet contractual obligations.
2. Ensure client satisfaction for designated contract deliverable commitments.
3. Manage integrated solutions, ensuring quality and efficiency of deliverables within budget and timelines.
4. Apply a program management framework for assigned programs, managing personnel, and ensuring contractual deliverables.
5. Lead team members in a matrix-managed approach.
6. Serve as focal point for program resource planning.
7. Lead the end-to-end delivery of a global ERP implementation.
8. Develop and manage the program plan, including scope and schedule of projects and workstreams.
9. Strategically identify cross-project impacts to resources, risk, quality, and change management.
10. Develop and maintain an integrated program schedule.
11. Lead and set standards for Project Managers and/or Workstream Leads.
12. Coordinate cross-functional teams.
13. Engage with C-level executives and stakeholders.
14. Develop program communications, set direction, goals, and priorities.
15. Provide leadership and communication to customers and internal Hitachi stakeholders.
16. Mentor and guide team members.
17. Provide first-line escalation point and coach/resolve conflicts.
18. Implement a quality management plan.
19. Drive vendor and partner management.
20. Champion program governance, compliance, and reporting standards.
21. Facilitate risk assessment/mitigation sessions.
22. Leverage PMI Program and project management standards.
23. Manage and execute a program budget.
24. Lead Program Executive Steering Committee meetings.
25. Lead teams in ambiguity.

Minimum Experience: 20+ years of professional services program management experience leading ERP implementations (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics).

Certifications: PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

Skills Required:

• Multi-platform project management.
• Effective communication with senior/executive management and customers/vendors.
• Strong business knowledge and people management skills.
• Experience with PMI program and project management standards.
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, CMM, CPM, Waterfall experience (desirable)

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, CIS, Business Management, or related field.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools.

Compensation: $190,000 - $255,000 base salary.

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