Program Manager – Workflow Optimization
The Walt Disney Company
Manager/Sr. Manager - Enterprise Transformation, Project Management
LivCor, a Blackstone Portfolio Company
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois, New York
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $120,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Utilize project management framework to drive project teams and ensure completion of complex cross departmental projects
- Review a project from multiple angles to understand dependencies and downstream impacts
- Recommend and oversee project teams to ensure flawless execution of projects
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams and team leaders for alignment
- Proactively identify risks and prepare potential solutions before they happen
- Determine and address operational issues, driving continuous improvement, constantly iterate on making LivCor and the team BTTY (Better Today Than Yesterday)
- Leverage budgeting best practices to budget, forecast, and track project expenses
- Work directly with senior leadership and stakeholders on projects
- Establish strong methods and cadence of communication across the project team
- Communicate clearly with team members, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, and build trust and relationships with project teams through reliability and empathy
- Provide substantive and timely updates to senior leadership on projects
- Ability to manage up – frequently asking Executive team sponsors to remove roadblocks
- Train other LivCorians on Project Management Guide
- Change Management for LivCor as we continue to adopt Project Management practices
- Provide feedback and assist with tactical decisions on the continued improvement of the Project Management Office Guide in evolving project management best practices
- Lead and develop team members, fostering collaboration and a high-performance culture
- Potentially have direct reports
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience working with complex projects and initiatives
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work across multiple departments and with many stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A project management certification or desire to obtain one
- Understanding of a full project or product lifecycle
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, Asana, and project management tools
- Ability to demonstrate leadership, drive results, solve problems, and possess interpersonal skills
- Strong data analytics
- Meticulously organized in digital systems while maintaining some flexibility
- Excellent time management
- Experience in Multi-Family Real Estate is a plus
