We are looking for a seasoned Program Manager to drive impact across a range of cross functional areas within our intelligent robotic coffee platform. You will be responsible for successful delivery of large-scale global programs across commercial, product development and marketing value streams. The role relies upon experience in relationship management, financial management, risk management, communications, change management, delivery execution and benefit-realization. You will have frequent leadership interactions with senior executives and must have a well-developed sense of strategy and timing as well as excellent verbal, written, negotiation and presentation skills.

In this role, you will:

• Lead global programs to launch and globalize an entirely new product and revenue stream

• Manage and monitor cross-functional programs in a matrix organization and ensure successful delivery

• Develop and manage full-lifecycle project plans to ensure on-time delivery, provide day to-day coordination, risk management, and quality assurance for tasks

• Identify dependencies and develop mitigation strategies

• Orchestrate cross-functional core teams including SW development, HW development, Product Management, Procurement, Operations, Finance and Marketing

• Establish and maintain a tight working partnership with business owners, executives, and program teams to rationalize business objectives & business priorities

• Administer the program budget through assembling, auditing and enabling negotiation across cross-functional project budgets

• Establish tracking and roll-up of project milestones and metrics for program level status reporting

• Ensure planned, regular, and effective communication of status, issues, risks, and actions among all stakeholders and teams involved in the program

• Lead stakeholder communications and negotiations ensuring timely updates of key risks and discrepancies

• Continuously monitor development process and proactively work to identify and resolve issues within the projects and across programs.

• Manage stakeholder expectations, revise plans and shift priorities as needed and in conjunction with all participating parties, to ensure successful completion of the program

• Help drive decisions to align or realign deliverables with program outcomes; ensure that the program is on track to meet business goals and ROI

• Bring a strong sense of execution and ownership to the team

Required for this Role:

• Bachelor's degree in technical, business, or management and 7 years of program management experience in delivering large-scale programs (over $5M); experience must cover all phases of a project lifecycle (discovery, definition/design, development/testing, delivery and post-implementation support).

• Experience delivering global programs or products from inception to launch across regions and markets

• Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership

• Ability to bring structure while dealing with ambiguity

• Experience coordinating work across large organizations

• Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems

• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams (e.g. and multiple partners in different time zones

• Experience communicating with stakeholders from engineering, executive leadership, and operations

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong presentation, organizational & interpersonal skills.

• Strong relationship building skills with senior executives across various departments

• Experience in writing, reviewing and managing business specifications, technical specifications, project plans, training plans, communication plans, and other related project documentation.

• Experience with applications such as MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Visio) required.

We're excited if you have:

• 10+ years of program management experience

• PMP or PgMP certification

• MBA or another advanced degree

• Demonstrated experience of managing global programs over $10M

• Ability to understand, interpret, manage and communicate technical and business team’s needs, concerns, risk, issues and collisions across all departments.

• Strong negotiation skills

• Demonstrated experience managing and directing employees, contractors and/or consultants in a matrix team setting

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