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Principal Program Manager

Principal Program Manager

CompanyDiscover
LocationWheeling, IL, USA
Salary$91000 – $153400
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Bachelors’ Degree in Business Administration and Management
  • 6+ years’ experience with Project Management, or related experience
  • In lieu of a degree, 8+ years’ experience with Project Management, or related experience

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for planning and overseeing product initiatives from inception to implementation while ensuring necessary functionality and flexibility aligned with the company’s long-term objectives.
  • Orchestrates workflows across teams and complex portfolios in a matrixed operating model.
  • Partners with product and platform leads to develop the business case, scope the work, and ensure alignment on vision and strategy.
  • Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role of management.
  • Organizes and enables collaboration and partnership across cross-functional teams, with internal and external partners, executes on architecture & product driven initiatives.
  • Drives or assists in communications on strategic initiatives to help drive consensus, achieve clarity and solve business problems. Provide oversight & process guidance for activities.
  • Facilitate and drive decisions from key stakeholders around financials, scope, risks and dependencies.
  • Provides leadership and guidance’s to teams/business units where there is no clear organizational ownership yet defined or where products/technology is not yet institutionalized or adopted.
  • Drives or assists research and/or brainstorming sessions; helps promote a culture of innovation within the department. Translates ideas and concepts into an executable project.
  • Mentors and assists more junior team members.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Mastery of program and project management disciplines.
  • Program or project management certification (PMP or PgMP).
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and facilitation skills.
  • Previous Payments PMO experience preferred