Program Manager

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Program Manager! Join our team today!

Key Responsibilities:
• Planning the overall program and monitoring the progress.
• Managing the program's budget.
• Managing risks and issues and taking corrective measurements.
• Understand how individual projects affect the program/portfolio and exercise judgement in raising issues and risks to the program/portfolio level
• Coordinating/Managing all projects within the program and their inter-dependencies.
• Tracks the status across all program activities and ensures that schedules and priorities are being met.
• Managing and utilizing resources across the program.
• Assist senior management with negotiating service/development contracts
• Provide technical guidance as required and oversee the larger production of several projects, ensuring that they come together to achieve company growth
• Providing coaching/mentoring to the team in a highly collaborative and empathetic environment.
• Creating and driving the overall program schedule, managing schedule progress; from large phases through to detailed tasks, including understanding and managing dependencies.
• Collaborating with staff and management of multiple business units (including subject matter experts, and technology teams) to clearly identify, explain, and communicate their project involvement, project goals, expectations, and tasks.
• Ensures critical issues are identified, tracked through resolution, and escalated if necessary.
• Manages daily/weekly program communication and status reporting to stakeholders and senior management.
• Leads Scrum teams and creates and follows up on meeting minutes/action items.
• Manage the purchasing/traceability of hardware inventory across the entire program
• Be proactive and exercise initiative in identifying, tracking, and removing impediments to program success. Approach risk identification and mitigation, accordingly, including establishing contingency plans and initiating corrective action.
• Defining the program governance (controls) as needed;
Key Qualifications:
• At least 12 years of experience managing IT projects, including end-to-end experience for medium-to-large projects and programs.
• Experience with/exposure to large scale platforms (cloud technologies), complex inter-dependent technologies
• Seasoned team coach that manages and alleviates (instead of running from) persistent obstacles
• Experience with Software and Systems Development Lifecycle and Project Management Methodologies, specifically Agile/Scrum. Experience with Scaled Agile Framework methodology a plus.
• Experience owning a program/portfolio of products/features, scoping requirements, planning milestones, and being an active resource for technical teams.
• Knows MS Azure DevOps, Rally, Jira or similar ALM tools
• CSM and/or PMI-ACP, or PMP certification
• In-depth understanding of IT infrastructure and technology
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
• Must enjoy consensus-driven environments where collaboration, honest and open communications are paramount.
• Must work effectively and professionally with cross-functional groups across divisions, worldwide, as part of a team.
• Must exhibit meticulous attention to detail and can make logical timely decisions.
• Demonstrate self-learning capabilities, taking initiative in a fast pace/quickly changing environment.
• Ability to extrapolate context from complex technical conversations, provide teams w/ valuable summations around action items and next steps
• Success in managing multiple, large IT projects simultaneously
Sinclair is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
About Us
Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. The Company owns, operates and/or provides services to 185 television stations in 86 markets affiliated with all the major broadcast networks; and owns Tennis Channel and multicast networks Comet, CHARGE!, TBD., and The Nest. Sinclair's content is delivered via multiple platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and the nation's largest streaming aggregator of local news content, NewsON. The Company regularly uses its website as a key source of Company information which can be accessed at www.sbgi.net.

The base salary compensation range for this role is $135,000 to $165,000. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates' relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, vacation time, personal time, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-yj879k-216-73-216-43-42 in your application.