Job Description
Position Summary:The Program Manager serves as a trusted partner to business and technology leaders, providing strategic direction, governance, risk management, and coaching to build a project management organization. You will report into the Global Program Services Team within IT, specifically supporting the cybersecurity organization.
Your Responsibilities:Team Leadership & People Management
- Provide guidance and support to project managers in resolving complex project challenges.
- Administer company policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
- Champion employee engagement and professional development initiatives.
- Provide management to professional individual contributors and experienced support individual contributors.
- Acts as advisor to team and may become actively involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems. Developing supervisory expertise.
- Direct employees according to established policies and management guidance.
- Management reviews work to measure objective obtainment.
- Frequently work with your team/peers and customers to gain cooperation of others or conduct presentations of technical information or project activities.
- Build productive internal/external working relationships.
Process Improvement & Governance
- Promote project management standards, methodologies, tools, and best practices.
- Improve continuous improvement initiatives to enhance project delivery effectiveness.
- Develop and maintain project documentation, templates, and governance processes.
- Ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory requirements.
- Apply company policies and procedures to resolve variety of issues.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with executive sponsors, business leaders, and project stakeholders.
- Facilitate steering committee meetings
- Communicate project status, key decisions, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure alignment throughout project lifecycles.
Program & Project Management
- Receive assignments in the form of objectives with goals and the process by which to meet goals.
- Oversee project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure activities.
- Ensure projects are delivered according to scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives.
- Promote program governance, status reporting, and executive communications.
- Work on issues of moderate scope where analysis of situation or data requires review of relevant factors.
- Exercise judgment within defined procedures to determine appropriate action.
The Essentials - You Will Have:- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of time.
The Preferred - You Might Also Have:- Typically requires 2+ years of relevant experience in Program and People Management.
- 2+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity
- SAFe Framework / Agile Experience
- PMP Certification
- Jira / Jira Align Experience
- MS Project Experience
- Power BI Reporting
What We Offer:- Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401k
- Paid Time off
- Parental and Caregiver Leave
- Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
- To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at .
At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.
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