Director, Enterprise Applications Program Office at NBC Universal in Aurora, CO

Responsibilities

Role Purpose:

Do you have a passion for supporting business transformation? Be part of a team that’s core to delivering today to enable NBCU business evolution in a fast-changing media and entertainment market.

This role will lead the program office within Enterprise Applications and consists of a team of project/program managers responsible for the IT deliverables that enable NBCU value generation, partnering with business functions on strategic initiatives to include, but not limited to:

• Finance transformation
• Procure to pay automation
• SAP platform expansion/modernization
• Application migration to the cloud

Role requires:

• Up to 10 years’ experience in IT project/program management and budget analysis
• Up to 5 years managing a team and implementing change
• This role will report to the SVP/CIO of Enterprise Applications

Responsibilities:

• Establish and manage project intake requests, ROI and reviews with management
• Own and ensure leverage of core program management processes and stage gate discipline (agile & waterfall) across all EA programs and projects appropriately
• Drive strategic cross-functional planning of key initiatives by closely partnering with Project Sponsors, Project Managers, Product Managers, and Engineering Leads to develop program plans including roadmaps, dependency analysis and identification, and resource plans
• Maintain master program schedule/milestones of Enterprise applications programs and projects
• Partner with various Operations & Technology Groups (CyberSecurity, Engineering, Workgroup Collaboration, etc) to ensure all integrated projects and governance checks and balances are in place
• Oversee the PMO process and ensures that information concerning programs (e.g., deliverables, risks, issues) passes to and from internal teams, stakeholders and management.
• Facilitate the Enterprise Applications monthly program review (MPR) to ensure portfolio is well understood, on track, and actioned for success
• Seeks to improve the consistency, predictability and efficiency of the organization’s program/project delivery capability
• Provides leadership in best practices and is highly customer value-focused
• Manage, mentor and lead a team of project/program managers
• Owns executive status updates, report outs and risk documentation collected from all teams
• Manage portfolio of program risks and mitigation plans
• Ensure groups strategy, priorities and projects are being delivered on time and on budget

Qualifications/Requirements

Bachelor’s degree

Project Planning, Portfolio Management experience

Adept at program/project and change management

Excellent written and verbal communication

Financial acumen

High level of organization

Strong leadership skills

Ability to perform under pressure

Desired Characteristics

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

Experience within media & entertainment industry

Experience with finance, HR, supply chain/sourcing, legal technology solutions/implementation

Experience with SAP projects

Detailed orientated and self-starter

Deliverable follow through

M365, ServiceNow, Jira / Confluence, Project online, Smartsheets experience

Works well under pressure

Strong sense of ownership, ability to proactively remove program obstacles, and willingness to go above and beyond to resolve issues are required