Manager, IT Program Management

We are a team of professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest health, nutrition and wellness company of the world. We innovate every day through forward-looking technologies to create opportunities for Nestle's digital challenges with our consumers, customers and at the workplace. We collaborate with our business partners around the world to deliver products and services to create tangible business value.

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POSITION SUMMARY

Manager, IT Program Management

The IT Program Manager manages a program or project to ensure it delivers expected and aligned Business Case to the IT and/or Business Sponsors, on time, on budget, on scope and on quality that may be clearly defined upfront or may require dynamic and iterative scoping, delivery and change management, adhering to established Program and Project Management methodologies. You will be responsible for leading and driving discovery through to design with the Assembly Team of IT and IT partners and/or Business resources to then build the Business Case with comprehensive budget planning for final submission and approval.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure the discovery process of the initiative has been completed to the alignment with IT and/or Business sponsors
• Strategically integrate across multiple functions within IT, and IT partners and/or the Business to effectively drive Discovery through to Design and execution of the program/project through to successful delivery
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively articulate status and concerns at all levels in the organization--with senior leaders through to project team members and third-party service/solution providers.
• Manage by proactively anticipating issues, needs, concerns, risks, leveraging program/project methodologies as a tool to ensure alignment to goals and objectives of the program/project
• Protect the execution of the project to deliver the outcome as expected of the Business Case while adhering to the scope, budget, timeline, and quality of the delivery
• Must have the ability to proactively manage and resolve issues, and /or conflicts in a cross-functional environment.
• Must handle multiple priorities simultaneously and dynamically prioritize and re-prioritize work for yourself and the program/project team as appropriate
• Must leverage interactions with stakeholders and resources at all levels of the matrix organization to ensure program/project execution moves forward towards successful delivery
• Drive and support the capability building efforts for the PMO team within the NA PM Community, collaborating with the IBS PMO team as appropriate.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, business administration or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of diverse roles and increasing leadership responsibilities across major projects and programs, including agile projects and programs with both IT and business industries
• Experience working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with multimillion dollar project budgets
• Expert stakeholder management in project/program management role

Preferred Qualifications

• Consulting leadership experience a plus
• Experience working in a Matrix organization

REQUISITION ID:

190451

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This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.