LDC IT Planning Manager
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Manage and maintain Program roadmap and release plans (key activities, deliverables, and milestones).
- Understand the interdependencies in integrated program plan spanning across releases and identify bottlenecks and impacts triggered by plan changes.
- Facilitate plan changes, their impacts and manage their endorsement at various program executive levels.
- Work closely with Release and workstream leads with relation to planning topics.
- Work closely with KPI team to report progress against the plan.
- Ensure sufficient awareness of the plan including ownership of SW tools related to planning.
- Be an active member of Program PMO team, look for improvements and simplifications.
Key performance indicators:
- Keep up to date plans with key activities, dependencies and milestones.
- Stakeholder satisfaction
- Maintaining awareness of the plans across various teams within the program
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- Project/program management experience, leadership of E2E IT project delivery
- Exposure to analytical roles (IT or BU)
- Experience with ERP systems or from Pharma industry is a plus
Skills:
- Change Management.
- Decision Making Skills.
- Project/Program Management.
- Project Risk Management.
- Project Team Management.
- Stakeholder Engagement.
- Advanced interpersonal skills
- Ability to work under pressure, meeting the deadlines.
- Analytical thinking
- Ability to learn fast in complex and evolving environment.
- Advanced user of MS Project, MS Office, Jira is a plus
Role Requirements
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