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Job Summary:

Under general direction with a high level of autonomy, uses extensive knowledge and skills obtained through education and experience to guide the organization through complex and multi-dimensional change. Provides overarching management of multi-million dollar, strategic, long-term initiatives that have significant impact on business processes and/or technology used firm-wide. Provides leadership and strategic guidance to Project Managers ensuring individual, process and technology objectives are achieved.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing integrated program plans that detail program objectives, business case, structure, approach, budgets and schedules.

• Ensures successful delivery of programs by managing program-level schedules, communications, budgets, conflicts, potential risks and program scope.

• Provides oversight for project execution and provides strategic guidance to project teams as required.

• Synthesizes complex issues, risks, as well as financial and schedule implications into summaries for senior and executive management.

• Directs Project Managers to ensure programs adhere to internal standards and policies.

• Forecasts and manages program resource needs, directs resources assigned to the program. and makes cross-project prioritization decisions.

• Ensures program staff is appropriately trained and managed. Provides associate feedback, training, counseling and performance assessments.

• Performs Human Resources activities to support team members as required.

• Proposes, implements and facilitates program governance structures.

• Builds and maintains strong relationship with clients, stakeholders, steering committees and sponsors to ensure stakeholder groups align to meet the client’s needs.

• Conducts feasibility studies that include detailed analyses such as scenario evaluations, “build vs. buy” analysis and cost implication analysis.

• Manages cross-initiative dependencies and constraints.

• Manages relationships with external vendors and contractors.

• Represents Executive Sponsor throughout day–to–day program activities and decisions.

• Participates in the development of the firm’s program delivery processes and tools.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Advanced concepts, practices, and principles of program and project management.

• Application development lifecycle, methodologies and standards.

• Advanced concepts of risk, issue and change management.

• Enterprise Project Management Systems.

• Business planning and analysis.

• Business process reengineering.

• Principles of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control policies and procedures.

• Principles of procurement, contract and vendor management.

Skill in:

• Managing large scale programs throughout their lifecycle.

• Managing capabilities across cross-functional business and technology teams, processes, and technologies.

• Conducting research as well as developing and documenting business cases.

• Developing, preparing, presenting and maintaining program plans.

• Establishing working relationships with business units.

• Refining and implementing program management methodologies, tools and practices.

• Conducting interviews with customers, subject matter experts, and vendors.

• Performing root cause analysis.

• Identifying, defining and documenting complex business and technical requirements.

• Implementing strategies and tactical plans across organizational lines.

• Identifying and managing program and project resource needs.

Ability to:

• Plan, assign, monitor, review, evaluate and lead the work of others.

• Build strong working relationships with teams, stakeholders and senior management.

• Identify, lead and develop team members.

• Analyze work and resource needs to develop comprehensive and accurate plans to meet program objectives.

• Develop solutions that address meaningful issues for the business unit(s) represented.

• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.

• Facilitate information gathering sessions ensuring that all viewpoints, ideas and problems are included in the program specifications.

• Assess alternatives and identify appropriate approaches to execute initiatives.

• Solve complex problems and model the business and financial impact of proposed scenarios.

• Identify program stakeholders and analyze their needs appropriately.

• Ensure that all project activities have a focus on quality and adhere to any identified best practices.

• Prioritize and manage multiple work efforts in a fast-paced and dynamically changing environment.

• Attend to detail while maintaining a big picture orientation.

Educational/Previous Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in the specific business function of assigned functional area or related field and ten (10) years of relevant experience including a minimum of two (2) years of Program Management experience required.

• MBA or graduate degree preferred.

or

• Any equivalent combination of experience, education and/or training approved by Human Resources.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) highly preferred.

Job: Project Management

Primary Location: US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg

Organization RJF Corporate

Schedule Full-time

Job Shift Day Job

Travel Yes, 5 % of the Time

Req ID: 2402894