Technical Program Manager
Location: London
Length: 6 Months
Rate: £51.92 p/h PAYE (Approx. £107.9K per annum)
Hours: 9am – 6pm
This client is a top 5 tech giant and one of the world’s most popular search engines.??
This is a hybrid role, so you will split your time between home office and the clients offices in central London. On-site you will be able to access their amazing facilities and quirky working spaces, as well as free breakfast/ lunch/ dinner, on-site gyms, outdoor spaces and roof gardens, wellness rooms and sleep pods.?
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Proactively identify stakeholders and work with them to strategize, plan, and prioritize objectives and success criteria, estimate task durations, and ensure schedules and dependencies are aligned and support those objectives within an organization.
- Define, organize, and manage the activities that lead to the outcomes of a project, what, who, when, and how.
- Effectively monitor and communicate progress, risks, and mitigations.
- Align stakeholders on decisions and changing circumstances.
- Measure and publish program and process metrics to drive consensus in teams understanding of issues, and to drive decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Leverage the Continuous Improvement approach including ability to identify and implement process improvements for the larger group or organization.
- Seek out and apply relevant best practices from other processes and technologies.
- Given a set of problem spaces, proactively identify and implement technical and business programs and processes in medium to large work groups, and drive ideas and solutions to address.
- Organize ambiguous projects into clear longer-term (6+ months) objectives.
- Forge and maintain effective program teams within and across an organization, understanding and addressing their needs and health, and supporting them throughout their lifecycles.
- Guide team alignment on the integration of the timelines, goals, and deliverables of related projects and teams.
- Manage escalations and unblock constraints and dependencies.
- Possess advanced planning and project management skills and break down programs and processes into components that could be executed by junior team members.
- Leverage best methodology for each team (e.g., Agile, Waterfall) to make teams most effective.
- Demonstrate advanced communication management skills, including writing and presentations, and represent the programs from business, product, and technical perspectives.
- Exhibit advanced relevant domain knowledge required to perform job (e.g., Networking Protocols, Payments Infrastructure, OS Ecosystem, Release Management, Cloud Computing).
- Demonstrate technical understanding to the degree required and be comfortable working with engineers and with technology.
Responsibilities:
- Communications management (PgM/TPgM)
- Continuous improvement (PgM/TPgM)
- Execution and governance (PgM/TPgM)
- Managing organizational change (PgM/TPgM)
- Planning (PgM/TPgM)
- Stakeholder management (PgM/TPgM)
- Technical judgment (PgM/TPgM)
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:
- Communications Management (PgM/TPgM)
- Continuous Improvement (PgM/TPgM)
- Execution and Governance (PgM/TPgM)
- Managing Organizational Change (PgM/TPgM)
- Planning (PgM/TPgM)
- Stakeholder Management (PgM/TPgM)
- Technical Judgment (PgM/TPgM)
