Define program success criteria and objectives, involving relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility and desired quality.
Collaborate with senior customer leaders and NTNX services leaders to define the program governance (controls) in accordance with customer requirements
Coordinating and driving sub projects and work streams inclusive of their interdependencies.
Lead architects and resourcing team to schedule internal and external consulting resources to drive multiple work streams.
Develop detailed project plans to put services in a logical order of operations, considering dependencies, predecessors, and successors while also utilising the LOE to determine duration; monitoring and tracking progress with project plans.
Manage the program scope, schedule, changes, costs and closeout using appropriate verification techniques.
Anticipate and proactively resolve challenges to program budget and timeline.
Measure program performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
Manage and track program issues, actions and risks accordingly.
Communicating progress both internally and externally.
Managing the relationship with the client and all internal and external stakeholders
Utilise client facing status meetings to manage customer expectations, escalate issues and risks, and drive program activities forward.
Develop client program status reports and distribute on regular intervals
Internally forecast program revenue accurately on a quarterly basis and regularly maintain configurables within system of record
Create and maintain comprehensive program documentation
Collaborate with project managers worldwide to improve PM efficiency
Foster relationships with clients enabling future account sales
Expertise in multiple project dashboard creation and presentation to all levels of stakeholders and management including executive and C level leadership
Manage Customer satisfaction by ensuring world class project delivery
Managing stakeholders' communication and develop appropriate communication plans, report and escalate to management as needed
Qualifications
Candidates should have a minimum of 8 years of industry experience.
Broad experience with managing complex projects of a variety of hardware, software, infrastructure, and cloud platforms and platform integrations
Exceptional organizational skills including ability to plan, attention to detail, facilitation, time management, leadership and multitasking skills
Ability to work with clients and stakeholders to identify business objectives and align program deliverables to them.
Ability to align the deliverables (outputs) to the program's outcome.
Proven ability to problem solve and be dynamic in complex situations.
Self starter with intense drive for improvement and delivering results.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Project planning tools
Proficient with Agile project management.
Experience using change management processes for dynamic professional services projects.