Leads efforts to continuously define, contribute and to improve our overall solution management knowledge base.
Develops standards, best practices, and training for team members.
Establishes and owns program communication plan for all stakeholders and work streams.
Leads, coordinates & assimilates cross-team communication and information and distills the information for the appropriate stakeholders.
Integrates new information on the fly, synthesizes the information and charts a new course as appropriate.
Has clear and concise communication.
Leads and facilitates both live and virtual meetings.
Keeps meetings on track, on topic and summarizes assigns and publishes follow up items in a timely manner.
Adapts communication style and medium to the audience needs, up to and including executive level.
Defines strategy and content for formal presentations.
Creates talking points and strategic messaging.
Prepares and provides various reports and reviews to senior leadership and stakeholders as requested.
Leads the build of new solutions, creating and managing timelines, resources, and workflow.
Aligns all dependencies from program work streams.
Proactively conducts resource planning and optimizing schedules, monitoring, and adjusting assignments as necessary.
Acts as an escalation point to address resource constraints to minimize impact to the program.
Negotiates conflicts of resources and priorities across departments.
Proactively manages delays to schedule to overcome potential obstacles and keep the project on track.
Will manage a core team of non-direct reports across multiple disciplines.
Responsible for keeping the team on task and on time and ensuring that projects are completed effectively and efficiently.
Oversees implementation of go-to-market strategy, optimizes sales enablement and marketing approach, tracks progress, provides regular updates, and ensures all milestones and timelines are met.
Responsible for solution performance, proactively adjusts strategy to drive revenue and profitability, secures funding and resources to drive success.
Maintains continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives.
Makes recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business results or strategic intent.
Identifies opportunities to capture new business and revenue streams.
Designs ongoing incentives, enablement and incentive activities, and marketing efforts to boost awareness and utilization of the solutions.
Creates recommended goals and forecasts, monitors results to plan, identifies areas of opportunity and white space, develops and implements activities to achieve and exceed goal.
Acts as subject matter expert for the solution, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on initiatives and activities while promoting the value of the solution.
Routinely gathers feedback from customers and internal stakeholders, reviews industry information, monitors the competitive environment, and proactively makes solution adjustments based on analysis.
Drives digital and segment-specific approach, aligning with sales, digital, and ITS stakeholders to create an omnichannel approach.
Produces project summary reports for executives.
Interfaces regularly with executives on the status and issues of the projects.
Is seen as a “Trusted Advisor” by executives and intimately knowledgeable about their business.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years Sales/Marketing/Project Management experience, OR 9 years' experience in Sales/Marketing/Project Management, OR 4 years CDW PPM experience and 5 years' experience in Sales/Marketing/Project Management
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with all stakeholders, up to and including executive level.
Demonstrated strong financial and analytical skills.
Proven collaboration and teaming skills.
Strong understanding of the dynamics of cross-functional teams, with the ability to creatively problem solve.
Understanding/Appreciation of maintaining confidentiality.
Well-organized with the ability to prioritize project work.
Demonstrated ability to work independently with little direction.
Proven track record in developing and/or marketing product lines with the ability to manage products through their lifecycle, customer engagement scenarios, and product positioning issues.
MBA Preferred.
Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
Five or more years’ experience in leading significant and complex technology projects across a variety of solution areas.
Deep knowledge of corporate departments, responsibilities, and processes.
Experience managing and leading risk management activities on projects.

Benefits

Annual bonus target of 10% subject to terms and conditions of plan
Professional development opportunities
Flexible working hours

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementfinancial analysisproduct lifecycle managementresource planningrisk managementsales enablementmarketing strategydata analysisprogram managementsolution management

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem solvingorganizationindependenceleadershipadaptabilitynegotiationstakeholder engagementteam management

Certifications

Bachelor's DegreeMBA PreferredProject Management Professional (PMP)