Business Program Manager
Location: London
Length: 6 Months
Rate: £46.15 p/h PAYE (Approx. £95.9K 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:
- Drive outcomes for programs by developing end-to-end program plans and adjusting as necessary to stay on-track and achieve program goals.
- Drive the development and curation of project, program, and portfolio management methodologies from best practices, processes, and tools.
- Contribute to project scoping and manage program priorities and allocation of resources within the program.
- Generate ideas required to solve a problem and take full ownership of the program outcome delivery.
- Help solve problems considering multiple approaches to reach an optimal outcome.
- Manage programs of an ambiguous nature involving cross-functional stakeholders by defining and streamlining new processes and organizing tasks into clear goals and objectives.
- Build new processes, procedures, methods, tests, and/or components with foresight to anticipate and address issues.
- Align resources and direction with other teams in the PA/organization.
- Guide the integration of multiple interrelated program timelines, goals, and objectives concurrently while monitoring program progress.
- Exchange information and best practices with team and members of interrelated teams, helping to maximize efficiency and reduce rework.
- Utilize comprehensive knowledge of program management best practices and an understanding of related areas of the Google organization, including understanding of process impacts and upstream/downstream processes and functions.
- Develop technical/business depth in appropriate domain/PA. Seen as a credible authority in the space within/outside the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Cross-functional partnership
- Domain, product, and service thought leadership
- Establishing program metrics
- Goal prioritization
- Identify product and service experts
- Managing project/program roadmap
- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) alignment
- Process management
- Program data interpretation
- Program vision ownership
- Project/program documentation
- Risk management, identification, and tracking
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:
- Business acumen
- Client/partner management
- Consultative skills
- Data analysis and synthesis
- Education and learning in subject matter domains
- Managing meetings effectively
- Risk management
- Situational leadership
