Business Program Management

Business Program Planning and Design Performs program landscape research and analysis (e.g., internal and/or external market, sales, delivery), forecasting, and examines business trends (e.g., customer feedback and expectations) to identify audience size and program scope, and stay current, agile, and competitive.

Understands overall business goals, objectives, and strategies, as well as short- and long-term business priorities.

Understands and identifies current program risks, impact, and mitigation plans.

Identifies and scopes opportunities to develop new programs and improve current ones.

Identifies and provides solutions to root problems (e.g., root-cause analysis), defines the program strategy, gathers program requirements, identifies resource needs, creates the project plan and targets, and works across teams to align on the plan of record.

Improves operations of existing programs by applying industry methodology, defining complex program issues, assessing various scenarios, and selecting the optimal scenario to resolve issues.

Drives clarity in complex program issues and strives for simplification.

Works with cross-functional (e.g., organizational, product, business) stakeholders (e.g., Engineering) to design compliant, complex programs from initiation to delivery with minimal coaching.

Produces collateral (e.g., proposals, strategy walking deck, internal and external pitch content) to incorporate stakeholder needs and ensure the business objectives are met.

Defines and tracks the success criteria and performance metrics (e.g., Objectives and Key Results [OKRs] and Key Performance Indicators [KPIs]), such as quality, adoption, usage, impact, effectiveness) for the program.

Works across teams (e.g., Landing Design, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Technical Program Management) to ensure all program requirements are understood and can be met.

Contributes to or leads a portfolio of projects including the project plan, timelines, milestones, financial management, performance metrics, and/or resource needs for complex programs.

Works with and leverages other teams (e.g., Supply Chain, Engineering, Sales) to ensure program processes are rigorous and executed efficiently.

Develops processes around scope and scheduled changes for programs and communicates them to stakeholders.

Contributes to monthly business review (MBR) and runs rhythms regularly to identify what is working and what is not and makes improvements accordingly.

Ensures buy in and adoption of the new program or change by others in the organization.

Develops the collateral required to enable key stakeholders and others to be on board.

Contributes to the training, reskilling, and mapping of individuals in partnership with Human Resources (HR).

Bachelor's degree in business, Operations, Finance or related field AND 4+ years' work experience in program management, process management, process improvement OR equivalent experience.