Program Manager - PMO

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Program Manager to join our Client's team.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure program delivery is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of the client's strategic objectives

• Communicate status reporting to leadership (program milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues).

• Establish frameworks and structure in any situation that lacks organization.

• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools, and partnerships to expand and mature

these capabilities for the organization

• Manage the day-to-day program activities and resources, and chair team meetings.

• Act as an advocate for Tech Transformation in applying methodology, processes, and tools for adopting best

practices for Program delivery

Skills/Experience Required:

• At least 5 years of established experience of working in a linear playout or broadcast distribution environment.

• At least 5 years of demonstrated experience managing a portfolio of complex initiatives that spans multiple lines

of business.

• Demonstrated ability to manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to

and directly supports business & IT strategic objectives.

• 5+ years of strong Program Delivery experience managing broadcast and linear playout projects.

• 3+ strong Excel skills (analytics, pivot tables, formulas, etc)

• 2+ years of experience in a Major Consulting firm is strongly preferred.

• 2+ years of experience as a scrum master is strongly preferred.

• 2+ years of experience with Jira – creating dashboards, filters, Jira Plan.

• 2+ years of experience managing cloud migration projects.

• Proven success in establishing structure and governance around complex multifaceted initiatives.

• Possess strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across, and down

multiple business and technology organizations.

• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork,

innovation and excellence.

• Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build

consensus and achieve objectives.

• Excellent leadership, communication (written, verbal, and presentation) and interpersonal skills.

• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands.

• Management activities across the Portfolio driving consistency.

• Tools: ServiceNow, Jira, MS Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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