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Description
The Program Manager II owns and delivers on department-level programs. The Program Manager II understands department needs and ensures that existing programs and road maps are aligned with department and business strategy. The role also creates new department-level programs if needed and leads cross-functional teams in the execution of any programs they own.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities/Core Accountabilities
- Ownership of medium- to large-scale programs that have an impact on the department or enterprise
- Understanding business needs, building requirements and developing department- level programs to address those needs
- Creation of program road maps and development of program strategies by collaborating with department leadership
- Ownership of the daily, quarterly, and yearly operational needs of a program and its road map
- Determining resource needs for programs; making recommendations to ensure that programs deliver their intended result
- Ensuring that programs deliver results on time while adhering to budget constraints; regular status communication to department leadership
- Routine assessment of a program’s scalability, ensuring that programs continually meet business needs
- Mitigating risk to programs by identifying factors that may hinder program success; making recommendations to address those needs proactively
- Identifying data trends and making recommendations for adjusting program strategy
- While a program is in progress, showing the ability to track and trend metrics in order to identify opportunities and influence stakeholders to make appropriate adjustments
- Creating buy-in within organizations to ensure resources that support program initiatives through people, funding, material and support
- Coordination of internal resources and leading cross-functional teams to ensure that all program stakeholders are executing their responsibilities within a program successfully
- A strong understanding of technical requirements and systems needed for programs; making recommendations to tech team when needed
- Advisor to business units or teams, becoming actively involved as required to meet schedules and resolve problems
- Coach and mentor to the team members within the project/program-manager organization
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or 4+ years’ equivalent work experience creating or owning programs at a department level
- Project Management Certification (e.g., PMP or Agile Scrum) preferred
- Ability to assess workload and appropriately delegate
- Being future-oriented; ability to paint credible pictures and visions, and to articulate business drivers on which the vision is focused
- Identification of problems quickly and formulation of analyses to create solutions
- Understanding the broader effect of program changes; adjustment of strategies accordingly
- Experience leading diverse cross-functional teams
- A strong technical aptitude with an ability to understand program or project technical requirements
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and demonstrated experience presenting information to diverse audiences
- Being analytical, and possessing the ability to interpret and translate data of varying complexity
- Proficiency in project- and program-management methodologies
- A self-motivated, highly organized, driven individual who can work in a team environment with limited supervision
- Ability to work cross-functionally and to manage multiple competing tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Being composed und
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Primary Location
Seattle Office
Job
Supply Chain/ Fulfillment
Full-time
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