Immediate need for a talented Program Manager - Infrastructure - Lead. This is a 12 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Libertyville - Innovation Way, IL(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:24-22734

Pay Range: $60 - $66/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee planning and execution of a large, complex program and associated child projects in their Business Unit’s DC group/functional portfolio to deliver on intended outcomes while collaborating on evolving ideas and discovery of new requirements to maximize return on investments.
• Identify dependencies, evaluate risks and communicate status to appropriate levels of management and stakeholders across assigned program and associated child projects.
• Ensure program and project deliverables, schedules, and financials adhere to established norms and are managed in alignment with departmental best practices across their assigned program and associated child projects.
• Periodically evaluate performance and develop action plans to ensure achievement of performance goals.
• Monitor and control schedule and financial health of their assigned program and associated child projects and provide actionable insights to key stakeholders.
• Proactively remove obstacles to drive assigned program’s and their associated child project’s momentum and progress. Engage and energize the program/project teams.
• Plan and engage necessary resources across the enterprise to ensure successful completion of assigned program and their associated child projects.
• Manage five or more vendors providing services to the program ensuring they meet their execution milestones and remain within their funding estimates.
• Prepares all program status reports and documentation to keep project sponsors and steering committee informed of project progress and potential risks/roadblocks so they can take appropriate action.
• Actively engage stakeholders and project managers of problem projects to assist with identifying corrective actions.
• Co-lead setup of program management and governance structures in collaboration with IT Business Partners (IT BPs) and Digital Capability Managers (DCMs).
• Advise and consistently apply Project Management best practices (including Agile, SDLC and PMF) and tools. Continuously improve our adoption and maturity of best practices across IT.
• Provide support to IT BPs and DCMs in management of program/project financials, vendor management and procurement.
• Collaborate with ITBPs, DCMs & Portfolio Managers on business case development for DC investments, translating PM experience & insights into improved estimates and outcomes.

Our client is a leading Pharmaceutical Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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