Senior Program Manager Strategic Initiatives

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Job Summary

The Capital & Business Planning team within the Financial Operations organization is seeking a Program Manager that possesses strong leadership skills, problem solving abilities, and can work independently to lead complex programs. This role will lead and / or support company initiatives that have high capital investment, significant growth potential, and high senior leadership visibility. Responsible for the program management activities and alignment for strategic programs coordinating among a wide range of cross-functional internal and external resources to ensure that programs are within scope, budget and on schedule. Integrates knowledge of business, technical and strategic priorities to deliver outcomes, longer-term improvements, and benefits in support of the organization.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities


Understands the scope of programs as defined by the business requirements and budget process. Participates in key planning milestones.

Identifies, confirms and obtains participation from required cross-functional teams. Ensures team clearly understands roles and responsibilities for the duration of the program.

Creates and builds program plans. Facilitates and drives the core team to identify and schedule all the work for end-to-end deployment required to fulfill program scope. Performs management of upstream and downstream dependencies.

Identifies goals and successes criteria, drives the development and implementation of key goals, objectives and successes criteria for the program with key stakeholders and core team. Raises conflicts and resolves with the appropriate level of management engagement to build consensus. Obtains and assigns resources to the program plan.

Determines the cost and budget; performs resource forecasting.

Analyzes areas of risk to avoid risky activities by identifying and managing critical paths and risk areas. Establishes contingency plans and identifies trigger events and assumes responsibility for initiation corrective actions.

Identifies and helps the team make program tradeoffs to balance scope, time and costs. Ensures proper documentation.

Tracks and manages the program schedule and upstream and downstream dependencies. Analyzes the actual performance against the plan and makes adjustments consistent with plan objectives. Drives action item resolution and track completion. Ensures program milestones are accomplished and ensures overall committed timelines are met. Documents all major plan changes in scope, approach and date delivery.

Communicates updates on major milestones and keeps all stakeholders informed of progress and issues. Identifies and manages proposed changes to program parameters and works with Enterprise Program Management and Program Managers to ensure appropriate processes and communications are followed.

Monitors and ensures quality of program deliverables. Leads core team and key field resources to develop and monitor deployment schedule, strategies and tools to support the implementation of programs in the field through trials and controlled customer deployments.

Support annual planning (budget) process by ensuring cross-organizational preparedness, year-over-year continuity in project definition, and quality of project submissions.

Lead quarterly creation of Cable Projects Report focusing on accomplishments from last quarter, activity in upcoming quarter, capital summary, and field engagement for key strategic programs.

Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.

Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Location: Philadelphia (hybrid)


Employees at all levels are expected to:


Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

Drive results and growth.

Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.

Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.


Disclaimer:


This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.


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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (****on our careers site for more details.

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