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Program Manager - Engineering

Summary

What you'll do

• Manage and coordinate engineering portfolio for rollout of products to global markets.
• Creating new programs according to business plans
• Managing the day-to-day progress of each program throughout its life cycle.
  • Support Engineering Management via development of Engineering plans, schedules, and budgets.
  • Managing budgets and reporting on fund allocation
  • Understanding how different projects interlink and overlap
  • Managing resources and ensuring timely delivery of programs
  • Risk assessment and risk management via periodic oversight, task tracking evaluation and continuing assessment of dependencies.
  • Manage Program Procurement
  • Reporting on program performance to executive team
  • Resolving issues with management and stakeholders
  • Supervising and coordinating activities of the parties involved in the program
  • Plan product submissions for regulatory approvals in conjunction with Compliance, Submission and Product Management teams ensuring identification of target markets and scheduled rollout milestones are met
• Ensuring relevant standards, process and regulations are upheld
• Developing strong relationships with team members, vendors, and partners
• Ensure communication flows and resolutions covering work handoffs, external dependencies, management development decisions and resource planning.
• Solid leadership and emotional intelligence skills, with demonstrated ability to engage others, influence organisational culture, and provide direction
• A lateral thinker with an ability to manage a multitude of complex tasks and projects simultaneously
• Ability to manager, mentor and develop team members
• Perform all responsibilities associated with standard project management in a Program Management Office and engineering development environment, including implementation and maintenance of effective project management framework, development team project plans, schedule management and facilitation of program reviews and performance.
• Multitask within a fast-paced development environment and quickly identify issues, collaborate, and manage solutions in support of product development plans, rollout plans and delivery goals.
• Remain flexible and receptive to feedback in approach to goal achievement.
• Identifying opportunities for continual improvement
• Assist the VP PMO, Global Engineering with Developing and implementing strategy for the program team
• Champion ownership of all other duties assigned or emergent in support of engineering excellence across the product portfolio and all commercial goals.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree or related field and/or equivalent work experience.
• In-depth knowledge of program and project management methods and principles
• Requires five to seven years of experience in new product development project management, or its equivalent, ideally in a regulated industry [Gaming or Other].
• Experience in managing product approval through global regulatory framework
• Must be seasoned and effective in communication across teams, identifying common ground, building trust and creating an environment that fosters mutual understanding and cooperation in collaboration-dependent product development.
• Extremely strong relationship development and management skills, including soft skills; people skills, , communication skills, and interpersonal skills.
• Must have strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills. Adept at group coordination; capable of driving the achievement of shared goals.
• Ability to manage a team and stakeholders
• Exceptional problem resolution facilitation skills and ability to clear/resolve issues quickly.
• Strong organization skills to orchestrate the creation and execution of annual portfolio plans and full cycle product level development plans.
• Proactive risk assessment manager, providing guidance and mitigation leadership on known issues, downstream ramifications, and unforeseen emergence.
• Strong orientation for internal customer service and cross-collaborative team support.
• Proven experience managing dependent and shared roles and responsibilities across multiple projects and teams.
• Proven stakeholder management skills.
• Motivation and ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies.
• Ability to understand and commute the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and efficient within a team-first orientation.
• Ability to absorb and retain information quickly and maintain technical and business knowledge sufficient to understand all factors affecting project planning, execution, and management.
• Must have strong analytical skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Office suite, MS Project, MS Project Server, MS Teams, ERP Systems, SharePoint, Power BI and similar project and financial reporting tool