(US) Principal Program Manager
PointClickCare
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USD 158k-176k / year
Key Responsibilities:
- Enterprise Project & Program Delivery Leadership
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex projects and embedded workstreams within enterprise transformation programs:
- Act as primary client liaison for SDO-governed projects and programs
- Lead standalone projects and workstreams within multi-year, cross-functional transformation programs
- Ensure alignment with transformation strategy, portfolio objectives, and program roadmaps
- Maintain momentum, cohesion, and clear ownership across all workstreams
- Manage day-to-day operational execution, including task definition and resource allocation
- Participate in integrated planning rhythms across SDO programs
- Governance, Planning & Financial Management
- Apply PMO best practices to deliver projects on time, on budget, and in alignment with SDO governance standards:
- Develop and maintain project plans using PMO methodologies tailored to stakeholder needs
- Ensure adherence to SDO intake, prioritization, governance, and reporting standards
- Manage project scope, budget, timelines, and resourcing
- Assess and manage scope changes, including impact analysis on budget, schedule, and capacity
- Drive benefits realization by ensuring scope and solutions align to intended business outcomes
- Stakeholder, Executive & Vendor Management
- Enable informed decision-making through strong stakeholder engagement, executive communication, and vendor oversight:
- Communicate project status, milestones, budget tracking, and risks to executive sponsors and business stakeholders
- Own escalation and change control processes, ensuring timely resolution
- Prepare and maintain all project management reports using SDO-standard formats
- Contribute to portfolio dashboards and integrated program reporting
- Coordinate with vendors from SOW development through delivery
- Manage vendor onboarding, accountability to contract, deliverables, and timelines
- Lead vendor calls and maintains productive vendor relationships
- Risk, Change & Data-Driven Decision Management
- Proactively manage risk, change, and delivery insights to protect outcomes and enable adoption:
- Identify, assess, and manage project risks and issues with appropriate urgency
- Facilitate problem-solving by bringing the right stakeholders together and driving closure
- Own accountability for decision-making at the appropriate organizational level
- Integrate Organizational Change Management into project planning
- Partner with Program Change Directors on readiness, impacts, communications, adoption, and collision risks
- Leverage data-driven metrics and AI-enabled insights for forecasting, risk identification, and stakeholder communication
- PMO Capability Building & Organizational Contribution
- Strengthen enterprise delivery maturity through PMO capability development and continuous improvement:
- Build deep understanding of business functions and technical needs
- Foster growth of project management capabilities within the PMO
- Share best practices, tools, and lessons learned across teams
- Contribute to the overall goals and objectives of the Project Management Office
- Support adoption of project metrics, dashboards, and AI-assisted delivery tools
Required Skills & Experience:
- Experience:
- 5–10 years of professional project management experience in complex environments
- Demonstrated experience leading agile projects or programs end‑to‑end, including scope, schedule, budget, and resources
- Experience working in matrixed organizations with cross‑functional teams and shared accountability
- Proven experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations
- Core Skills & Capabilities:
- Strong project planning and execution using PMO best practices and governance standards
- Ability to manage scope changes and clearly communicate impacts to budget, schedule, and resourcing
- Excellent stakeholder and executive communication skills, including status reporting and escalation management
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including basic root cause analysis
- High attention to detail, organization, and time management
- Proven experience delivering agile and waterfall projects and programs/initiatives
- Tools & Ways of Working:
- Proficiency with project management and productivity tools (e.g., MS Office, JIRA, Aha! or similar)
- Experience gathering, analyzing, and reporting project metrics and dashboards
- Comfort working in data‑driven environments and interpreting metrics to inform decisions
- Experience working with AI‑assisted delivery, forecasting, or analytics tools
- Strong business acumen with the confidence to drive accountability and decision ownership at senior levels
Preferred Experience:
- Experience managing projects in one or more of the following areas:
- Enterprise-wide transformation programs
- Technology modernization projects
- Multi-vendor delivery projects
- Cross-functional multi-team delivery initiatives
- Experience delivering workstreams within enterprise‑wide, multi‑year transformation programs
- Experience supporting digital transformation, enterprise information management, or Corporate Data Office initiatives
- Experience partnering with Organizational Change Management (OCM) teams to manage readiness, adoption, and change impacts
- Demonstrated ability to integrate change management activities into project delivery
- PMP, Agile, or equivalent certification preferred
158000 - 176000 USD a year
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