Program Manager

Program Manager

DEPARTMENT: Project Management Office (PMO)


REPORTS TO: Director, Project Management Office


TYPE OF POSITION: Contract


HOURS 40/week


LOCATION Seattle or New York

GENERAL DESCRIPTION


The Program Manager will be a key member of Parametric's (ASSET MANAGER
subsidiary of Morgan Stanley) growing and dynamic Project Management Office.
This role will work across multiple business and technology teams and be
chiefly responsible for structuring, planning, and executing high visibility
and high priority strategic enterprise initiatives. This person will manage
both programs and individual projects to drive technology and business
transformation.


As Program Manager, you will bring engineering, business objectives, and
best-of-breed technologies together and play a critical role in leading
initiatives through needs analysis, iterative implementation of solutions, and
measuring impact of those solutions as we deliver on our ambitious vision. This
role is highly cross-functional and will require a strategic thinker
comfortable with ensuring cross-departmental alignment; building tools,
processes, and capacity to achieve the organization's goals. The position will
report to the Director, Project Management Office but will be closely partnered
with executive business and IT stakeholders in both Parametric and ***, a
diverse set of team members across both organizations, and PMO colleagues with
whom you will plan for and monitor a complex set of dependencies.

ABOUT YOU


• You can affect change at Parametric.
• You take responsibility for driving projects in delivering the strategic
objective by closely managing to the plan and quickly clearing blockers.
• You want to be a key part of enhancing customer engagement, business
transformation, and integration at Parametric.
• You are highly organized, accountable, and can lead others through programs
and strategic deliveries.
• You have a passion for driving change to achieve a strategic direction.
• You seek a collaborative relationship with multiple business partners and IT
delivery teams.
• You are an active learner, open-minded and innovative.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES


• Drive effective teamwork, prioritization,
communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple disparate groups
with competing priorities while maintaining strong business relationships.
• Lead the effective and efficient delivery of large complex cross-functional
projects and manage all implementation activities for concurrent work-streams.
• Ability to create and communicate project metrics, schedule, and status to
the entire organization.
• Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders
while adapting to competing priorities, organizational changes, and new
responsibilities.
• Anticipate bottlenecks, identify risk, provide escalation management,
anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical
constraints.
• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building
relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Maximize resources for the greater good of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to compose clear and concise written communication.
Comfortable, clear, and articulate presenting to multiple levels of the
organization, from individual contributors to Executive Committee members.
• Expertise with business and process documentation; identify, create, and
facilitate design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis
and design at a complex level.
• Demonstrated ability to create appropriate business requirements and
acceptance criteria.
• Ensure consistency with and application of PMO standards, processes, and
controls across projects.

JOB REQUIREMENTS


• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree
preferred
• 7+ years of Project/Program Management experience required, with proven
ability to manage multiple related and concurrent workstreams
• Excellent listening, presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven delivery background with experience in all program/project phases -
plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, and implement.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation and
conflict resolution.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to multitask and handle
interruptions.
• Not afraid to get involved in complex issues to drive problem solving, and
rapidly get to solutions.
• Must be a self-starter with the ability to "manage upward"; ability
to self-manage; able to think on your feet and exercise good judgment and decision
making. Must pay attention to details.
• PMP or Project Management certification strongly preferred.
• Financial Services background is a plus.