IT Senior Program Manager

Eaton’s Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a IT Senior Program Manager. The expected annual salary range for this role is $158249.97 - $232099.96 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What You’ll Do

Job Summary

The Enterprise Services Program Manager is responsible for the successful implementations, deployments and upgrades of finance and HR applications across global corporate functions. The Enterprise Services Program Manager will be responsible for all aspects of program delivery including requirements, OCM, budget management, project resource management, site readiness and program delivery by working closely with senior leadership to ensure successful program delivery.

This position will be required to manage vendors relationships for the definition and execution RFP's, SOW and contracts to support program delivery.

Initiate, Plan, Control, Execute, and Close project deliverables following Eaton-prescribed process, ProLaunch and Eaton PM Playbook, to ensure business objectives are met. The PM will manage multiple work streams within a Program reporting to the Program Manager for projects that may require very large RFP/SOW/Contract. Engagement of SCM and the IPO in Ireland is critical.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure business readiness through thorough OCM and readiness evaluations
• Work with resource managers to staff projects. Define and communicate roles for project team
• Develop the project plan with direct input from stakeholders that details the work break down structure, critical path, resources, and effort. Ensure stakeholders are committed to the plan
• Establish project budget; capital hardware, software, and labor; expense labor and non-labor
• Develop communication strategies with key stakeholders
• Develop risk management plans; identify risks and develop respective mitigation and contingency plans. Define the risk reserve and incorporate it into the project plan
  
  
  

Execution and Control

• Manage employee, contractor, and supplier deliverables to ensure the project is completed on time per the schedule approved at Gate 2
• Manage quality of the deliverables. Ensure all requirements have been validated (i.e., traceability matrix) and ensure the user acceptance tests have been developed, approved, and executed to successful completion prior to going live
• Manage the project budget; track effort and green dollar spend; correlate actuals and forecast to the plan (burn rate)
• Lead communications with key stakeholders. Monitor and report on schedule and budget variances. Ensure all communications related to implementation are completed
• Document and drive issues through resolution; escalate to customer, supplier, and Eaton management as necessary
• Continually manage risk to reduce the impact or likelihood of occurrence
• Develop and manage the implementation plan including production verification. Manage issues at go-live and through warranty period
  
  
  

Closure

• Ensure sign-off on all major system deliverables by stakeholders
• Ensure all invoices are received and processed
• Ensure smooth transition to support and that the CMDB is updated
• Lead and document lessons learned with all pertinent stakeholders, review missed estimates with resource managers
• If a capital project, ensure CAR is closed
  
  
  

Qualifications

Required (Basic) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accredited institution
• Minimum ten (10) years' previous Project Management work experience on large global application deployments
• This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C.
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• Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship now or in the future.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Beachwood, OH will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of the Oracle and SAP technology platforms (finance or HR)
• Able to understand the integration and interdependencies between projects
• Intermediate to Advanced technical knowledge and solid understanding of computer hardware and software, data management, application programming, data communications, operating systems, utilities and data security.
• Advanced understanding of project budget management and experience managing internal and external labor budget for projects along with ability to manage third party invoicing for software or services for projects.
• Ability to manage capital spend on project. Ability to manage relationship with consulting partners on project.
  
  
  

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