Program Manager

Job summary

The Program Manager acts as the primary liaison between project teams and clients, overseeing the full project lifecycle from initiation to closeout. They are responsible for managing project resources, budgets, and timelines while ensuring deliverables meet quality standards and client expectations.

Job details

Program Manager - MDM Job Description The Program Manager serves as the primary liaison between project teams, execution teams and the client. Maintaining an expertise in all facets of their respective service area, Program Managers work with subject matter experts and the sales team to define execution requirements for their projects and ensure all deliverables meet or exceed Pivotree high standards of quality and excellence and do so within budget. Program Managers take complete ownership over their projects by independently developing smart and efficient solutions, managing deliveries and working with execution teams to ensure their projects satisfy client expectations and conform to all departmental performance metrics, both financial and otherwise. Responsibilities ● Face of the project to clients, managing the client relationship with effective communication and instilling trust, running productive meetings and distilling information quickly ● Manages full project life cycle from initiation to closeout and delivers project financial/status reporting, ensuring the project is completed on time and within budget ● Managing project resources and trade-offs between scope, quality, time and cost ● Assist the pre-sales team with project scoping and writing SOWs & Change Requests ● Author and maintain appropriate project documentation, tracking and dashboarding throughout the project lifecycle, as relevant to the applied delivery methodology (agile, waterfall, watergile) ● Proactively identify and track scope, budgetary and resource risks and ensure they are escalated and mitigated accordingly ● Establish success metrics and KPIs at project kick off and oversee their tracking and completion through to project completion ● Oversee project close out activities including final financial metrics, value presentations and lessons learned/retro sessions ● Accountable for maintaining appropriate resource allocation and time tracking throughout the duration of the project ● Assist project teams with complex problems or decisions and provide conflict resolution when necessary ● Monitor project team member performance, working closely with Functional Managers to set expectations and provide performance related feedback ● Utilize existing relationships to look for new opportunities to grow Pivotree's business and expand existing accounts ● Ability to travel and attend client on sites as required (e.g. project kick-offs, quarterly steerco’s and other key milestones) Requirements ● 5+ years of relevant experience in the eCommerce, Product Content/Data, Supply Chain or Business Strategy/Consulting fields ● Experience of multiple Project Management methodologies and delivery approaches (Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Waterfall) ● Experience of using DevOps tools and techniques within an Agile environment (Jira) ● Experience of successfully delivering a portfolio of multiple concurrent programs and projects ● Experience with large scale PIM, MDM, eCommerce and Supply Chain software implementation ● Familiarity with Master Data Management concepts (data hierarchies, taxonomies, schema & attribution, relational data, meta data, classification) ● Working knowledge of MDM tools an advantage (STIBO, Precisely/EnterWorks, Syndigo/Riversand, Informatica) ● Proven experience of managing, leading and motivating project teams ● Proven experience managing, tracking, and forecasting budgets and financials for large scale, $multi-million programs and projects ● Proven ability and success in developing strategic relationships and communicating effectively with senior execs and key client stakeholders ● Ability to quickly understand core project goals and deliverables and communicate those objectives clearly and confidently across all levels of stakeholder, both internal and external ● Exceptional organizational, planning and time management skills ● Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills ● Exceptional documentation, reporting and presentation skills (Google Suite, MS Office)

What you’ll do

The Program Manager acts as the primary liaison between project teams and clients, overseeing the full project lifecycle from initiation to closeout. They are responsible for managing project resources, budgets, and timelines while ensuring deliverables meet quality standards and client expectations.

Requirements

Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in eCommerce, Data, or Consulting fields with a strong background in project management methodologies. Proficiency in MDM concepts and tools, along with proven experience managing multi-million dollar programs, is required.

Listed skills

• Supply Chain · Preferred
• Budgeting · Preferred
• Financial Reporting · Preferred
• Jira · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Scrum · Preferred
• Agile · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Client Relationship Management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Program Management
• Project Management
• Master Data Management
• Agile
• Scrum
• Waterfall
• Jira
• PIM
• eCommerce
• Supply Chain
• Budgeting
• Financial Reporting
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Management
• Strategic Planning
• Client Relationship Management
• Business Metrics
• Supply Chain Software
• Project Documentation
• Informatica
• Project Scoping
• Waterfall Methodology
• Effective Communication
• Planning
• Taxonomy
• Agile Methodology
• JIRA
• Change Requests
• Communication
• Conflict Resolution
• Consulting
• Relational Databases
• DevOps
• Sales
• Forecasting
• Problem Solving
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Milestones (Project Management)
• Performance Metric
• Presentations
• Scrum (Software Development)
• Project Management Life Cycle
• Systems Development Life Cycle
• Protocol Independent Multicast
• Relationship Building
• Resource Allocation
• Business Strategies
• Time Management
• Writing
• Data Classification

Job areas

• Management & Leadership
• Consulting
• Software
• Data & Analytics
• Technology
• Program Manager
• Program Manager (General)
• Policy and Planning Managers
• Managers, All Other

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