
Program Manager, Data Center
- Catania
- Tempo indeterminato
- Full time
- Work closely with functional stakeholders such as Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing to develop a clear definition for the program that meets customer requirements and internal company goals.
- Work closely with business teams to develop any necessary contractual material (SOW, Quality requirements, etc) in support of program.
- Develop the execution plan for the program. This includes working with individual Project Managers and functional leadership to build a schedule, staffing plan, risk analysis and mitigation plan, and budget in support of program goals.
- Oversee the successful execution of the plan:
- Manage the program bounding box; schedule, scope, budget and staffing, and additionally full factory cost (FFC) to ensure individual projects stay on track and within budgetary commitments.
- Continually evaluate program risks and take appropriate action to mitigate.
- Work closely with Project Managers and functional team leads to ensure program deliverables and dependencies are being met.
- Coordinate the day-to-day program activities, priorities, meetings and communications ensuring alignment across all projects or cross functional teams while optimizing performance at a program level.
- Serve as the focal point for program communications to senior management and the customer. Compile regular program status for all stakeholders and effectively escalate critical issues and risks as necessary.
- Ensure the program is developed in compliance with specified internal, customer or industry standards, processes and procedures.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement by ensuring post-release lessons learned activities for the program are completed
- Serve as a champion for advancing Project Management best practices and new methodology.
- Mentor (and potentially manage) Project Managers, providing guidance and leadership as needed
- Manage program change requests which may fundamentally impact the schedule and/or cost of the program.
- Track in PLE the performance of the program to key milestones.
- Ensure post-release review (AAR) of the program is completed as required.
- Work directly and closely with key customers, scheduling and chairing regular meetings and delivering program updates.
- Travel to customer sites for reviews as required.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline (Masters or MBA a plus, but not required)
- A minimum of 10 years industry experience, preferably with some background in silicon development and full hardware, software, and mechanical systems design.
- Have 5+ years’ experience in an Engineering Project/Program Manager role working with large multinational companies which involved direct customer interaction
- PMP or other accreditation and experience with the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) a plus.
- Proven success in leading large cross functional teams through influence
- Experience with multi-site, multi-geographical development is desired.
- Strong planning and organizations skills; must be able to set and manage priorities, adapt to change, track progress of activities, issues, risks, and deliverables to closure through close coordination with multiple groups.
- A problem solver who is able to quickly assess situations, collect relevant information or input from subject matter experts and drive manageable solutions.
- Able to act decisively and make clear timely decisions which are in the best interests of the program.
- Be creative and innovative. Demonstrate a willingness to explore new options to bridge program challenges or improve processes.
- Willingness to take the big picture view; demonstrate an ability to identify and address challenges across organizational, functional, and project boundaries.
- A nature of staying focused on solutions and ability to remain positive even under pressure.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to manage the detail to the target audience up, down, across, and out of the organization.
- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with others, foster teamwork and bridge differences to achieve the program goals.
- A leader who can set direction for project teams and mentor more junior members of the PM community and drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Strong Knowledge of MS Office Tools.