Principal Program Manager - Parametric

Principal Program Manager

The Principal Program Manager will be a key member of Parametric's growing and dynamic Project Management Office. This role will work across multiple business teams and interface with technology while being 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 the delivery of our corporate strategy.

As Principal Program Manager, you will play a critical role in leading large complex programs to deliver firm-wide strategic objectives by implementing business and technology solutions along with measuring the impact of these solutions. You will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating multiple projects within the program, ensuring they align with the overall strategic objectives by developing implementation plans, tracking progress and risks, clearing roadblocks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve desired business outcomes; essentially acting as a bridge between strategic planning and project execution. 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 Senior Business Stakeholders and IT Leaders across the organization.

In this role, you will leverage your experience, knowledge, and skills to grow the PMO and you will be an active participant in establishing and maintaining an agile, innovative, creative, service and leadership-oriented team of project and program managers. You will be key to developing relationships across the organization and in driving toward critical business strategies and objectives. Although the Principal Program Manager will have no direct reports initially, you will be an integral part of team member development and will act as a mentor to one or more project/program managers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders in delivering key results to meet strategic objectives.
• Manage implementation activities for high profile, high visibility, concurrent work-streams.
• Lead program steering committee meetings to provide program updates and clear blockers.
• Develop and deliver program communications and roadmaps.
• Lead the team through translating business use cases into functional specifications and work with team leaders on work-breakdown.
• Drive issue resolution.
• Track OKRs and program success metrics.
• Bring together cross-functional business and technology teams to deliver connected, enterprise strategies, solutions, capabilities, and execution roadmaps.
• Participate in building and maintaining PMO standards, processes, and controls across the enterprise portfolio.
• Act as a mentor for other PMO resources.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, Master's degree is a plus.
• 10+ years of Program Management experience required, with proven ability to manage multiple related and concurrent workstreams.
• Financial Investment Management experience is a strong plus.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, and/or CSM certification strongly preferred.
• Proven ability as liaison between technical teams and business visionaries – not a "go between" but rather facilitator and someone who can capture the vision from both points of view into a cohesive roadmap and implementation plan.
• Lead and facilitate executive level communications, presentations, and meetings.
• Proven ability to write well-formed, clear communications and documentation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Absolute passion for enhancing the client experience through operations and technology.