Program Director

Job Description

Role Purpose

Program Directors lead and drive multiple Expert Service (ES) engagements, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery of solutions to achieve customer business outcomes. They are the key point of communication and coordination for the delivery team, keeping the project on track by establishing and maintaining governance forums, mitigating risks and issues, and driving rapid and effective decision-making, escalating issues as required.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple ES engagement workstreams, leveraging a deep understanding of project impacts, cross effects, and alternative actions.
• Proactively develop and implement plans to address risks, issues, and escalations.
• Drive problem resolution through swift escalation and clear responsibility division.
• Identify discrepancies between actual progress and planned objectives, driving effective resolutions.
• Coach, mentor, and lead Principal Engagement Managers and Senior Engagement Managers in large complex projects.
• Influence, support and provide thought leadership to the customer during times of ambiguity or conflict.
• Lead the delivery team throughout the engagement, often in collaboration with a services partner.
• Manage the engagement governance, timeline, scope, risk, change management, resourcing, reporting and financials.
• Collaborate with the Sales Account Team, partner and customer to understand the customer and the engagement; including business challenges, key stakeholders, issues and business value being delivered.
• Understand the business objectives and align the deliverables accordingly.
• Act as a thought leader, applying expertise from the Now Create methodology and prescriptive guidance to drive successful delivery of the engagement, including long term customer success.
• Accountable for communication and acts as the single point of contact to facilitate collaboration, decision making and customer buy-in on proposed solutions.
• Coach, mentor and manage Customer Outcomes and/or Partner team members to achieve the engagements deliverables and enable the customers desired business outcomes.
• Typically manages multiple projects simultaneously.
• Identify gaps between actuals and plan of record, propose solutions and drive resolution.
• Lead the delivery team throughout large, complex programs, often with multiple workstreams and in collaboration with a services partner.
• Support Business Development efforts for Multi-Million-dollar engagements.
• Manage the largest and most complex programs for Customer Outcomes Strategic Accounts.