Program Manager - HR Technology

About the role
Mission:
- Manages Program and projects from conception successfully through to completion on Time, Budget and Quality.
- Effectively leveraging and monitoring IT external Vendors, coordinating a team of IT experts and technical resources, and ensuring alignment with key stakeholders.
- Brings subject matter expertise in multiple business and/or technology domains to solve business problems or needs (especially in HR technologies).

What youll be doing:

- Overall responsibility for planning, directing and coordinating activities pertaining to technology and business function projects in accordance with our project management methodology.

- Consults with management and reviews project proposals to determine goals, time frame, funding limitations, and procedures for accomplishing projects, staffing requirements and allotment of resources.
- Develops project plans, specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, risks, contingency plans and allocation of available resources.
- Coordinates assignment of project personnel.
- Works closely with Business & IT stakeholders for any escalations and works closely with all IT team members on all the required phases of a project from start to finish.
- Anticipates the impact of the project on the organization and proactively manages the change, aligning with key leaders.
- Applies advanced ability to manage external resources (e.g. cross-functionally or multi-disciplinary) including offshore delivery models.
- Applies advanced ability to negotiate with and influence internal/external partners resources.
- Applies advanced ability to manage identified project risks and implement mitigation actions.
- Applies leadership skills that include delegation and team-building and efficient/effective resource management and use of teams.
- Projects Budget management planning, tracking, maintaining as required.
- Stakeholder management Actively enroll senior business leadership in support and on-going ownership of major projects.
- Certified in project management as a result of following a recognized pattern/structure of training in advanced project management skills or equivalent proven experience.
- Achieves agreed targets in terms of quality, time and cost.
- Adheres to defined management and delivery processes for IT projects and other policies relevant to the project scope (e.g. HW/SW standards, Internal Controls, Compliance & Information Security).
- Ensures delivery of project results according to agreed quality, schedules and cost whilst maintaining customer satisfaction.
- Leads the assigned project personnel to jointly achieve high customer satisfaction.

About you:
- At least 6+ years of working experience, 4 6 of those years with project or Program management experience in a large global IT organization or consultancy.
- Proven track record successfully delivering projects with budget responsibility.
- Ideal knowledge of HR IT technology (ie SAP Success Factors, Service Now, Talent Link).
- Ideal knowledge in one or multiple HR processes: Time Management, Performance Management, Employee onboarding, Document Management, Case Management.
- Capability to lead global virtual teams.