Group program manager

Role: Group Program Manager

Location: Overland Park, Kansas or Secondary TX / GA Onsite

Duration: Long term contract

Mandatory Skills: Program Management, Mergers And Acquisitions, Telecom Operations, Post Merger Integration

Responsibilities:

1. Design, communicate, and implement governance activities and deliverables to monitor progress, control integration and/or separation processes, and report on status for IT projects.
2. Collaborate with stakeholders on the creation of detailed integration and/or separation project plans, including identification of timelines, dependencies, and risks across IT projects.
3. Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues associated with integration and separation initiatives, collaborating with stakeholders to develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans across the IT projects.
4. Ensure timely resolution of initiative issues to minimize impact on program timelines and objectives across IT projects.
5. Develop and implement change management plans to ensure smooth transitions and stakeholder buy-ins across IT teams.
6. Assemble key players on the project team and nurture internal working relationships across the enterprise to foster cross-functional teamwork.
7. Manage Project Management functional scope and schedule, providing oversight of management and allocation of personnel and resources to projects.
8. Accountable for directing the creation of all project communications and facilitating team and project meetings.
9. Lead and develop definitions and measurements of success metrics to objectively quantify project success.
10. Identify potential risks across individual projects and establish communications and mitigations to address them.
11. Collaborate with IT stakeholders to define and implement processes and tools to enable operational due diligence activities.
12. Manage and lead IT projects to meet deadlines for transitional activities.

Work Experience:

1. Bachelor's degree and a minimum of seven years related work experience.
2. 7-10 years industry experience as a program or product manager within a technology environment.
3. Two years of experience working on merger integration, divestiture activities, and/or large technical integration programs.
4. Two years of experience in establishing and executing transition plans and objectives.
5. Five years analytical or operational business experience.
6. Strong understanding of wireless telecommunications technologies and operations.