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Russell Tobin · 23 hours ago

Program Manager (III) - New Product Introduction

Sunnyvale, CA

Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level

$125/hr - $135/hr

5+ years exp

Russell Tobin is a staffing and recruitment firm, and they are seeking a Program Manager (III) to drive multiple programs that extend beyond immediate teams and organizations. The role involves managing program activities, ensuring stakeholder alignment, and delivering operational and technical improvements across various functions.

ConsultingHuman ResourcesLegalStaffing Agency

Hiring Manager

Manoj TK

Responsibilities

Across multiple teams, independently define, drive, and own program charter(s) that address scope, and timeline, OKRs, resourcing and risks/dependencies of moderately complex programs. Translate ambiguous program goals into clear and measurable objectives/milestones. Determine the effective level of program management required of an initiative. Create project plans that break down a project into discrete phases aligned to the needs of stakeholders, include risks/dependencies and support proactive identification of program constraints

Independently determine program phasing and metrics that effectively address continuous improvement including Resource Stewardship. Optimize regular checkpoints and metrics dashboards. Ensure stakeholders are aligned on rationale for program pivots

Independently design and deliver optimized program communication plans including executive and key partner communications. Articulately represent the program across touchpoints

Anticipate change management requirements. Independently develop change management rollout plans for programs including impact analysis. Proactively drive pivots requiring change management, monitor progress of change management rollout, and resolve misalignments. Define future change management needs

Effectively build trusted relationships with senior program stakeholders to proactively enable effective decision making. Resolve prioritization misalignments with stakeholders. Proactively manage program escalations

Independently determine and collect data required to govern programs and effectively drive stakeholder decision-making. Independently maintain project trackers and status reports. Identify and execute on program tasks, including proactively managing dependencies, while incorporating Product Excellence values, Product Inclusion, and brand trust and reputation. Create automated processes to enhance velocity and monitoring. Define program governance structure by determining effective management of mitigations, postmortems, and escalation reports. drive effective program stakeholder meetings

Qualification

Program ManagementNew Product IntroductionHardware ManufacturingSupply Chain PlanningPortfolio ManagementContinuous ImprovementManaging Organizational ChangeCommunications ManagementPlanningStakeholder ManagementExecutionGovernanceTechnical JudgmentTeam ManagementUser understandingEmpathy