Program Management Consultant | Seattle, Wa

Project Management Duties and Responsibilities

• Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.
• Work closely with program/process owners to identify business changes and drive the consensus necessary to adopt a manageable change strategy.
• Engage with program leadership as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, and ongoing progress.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Ensure scope and schedule for commitments are clearly defined, agreed upon, and communicated across stakeholder and leadership teams
• Work directly with all geographic areas and impacted parts of the business to drive this workstream from initiation through delivery.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Own and drive delivery of project tasks, activities, milestones, and resources. Develop, maintain, and manage project requirements, plans, timeline, issues, risks, and challenges to support this.
• Actively seek opportunities to create synergies across internal groups to drive long-term solutions to a customer connected experience
• Ensuring the work and solutions a team is working on meets business needs and requirements.
• Support and be inclusive of a variety of business owners, recognizing multiple parties/organizations with conflicting agendas and business priorities.
• Prioritizing based on business needs and requirements.
• Own communication on project status, issue management, and resolution. Including celebrating success and failures so we learn and develop a growth mindset.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.

Project Management Requirements:

• Experience in managing large scale, complex projects and overseeing team collaboration and program/project orchestration end to end
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• 5+ years combined experience: Project/Program Management, Delivery Management
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication to present updates and ideas to business leaders, customer experience and sales leaders and stakeholders.
• Experience leading and developing top-performing teams.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects.
• Ability to operate in PST time zone
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Must be v-dash eligible (not in 6-month ‘off’ period)
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• BA or MS in Business Management or related fields desired

Ways to Stand Out:

• Prior Microsoft experience (as an employee or vendor) and understand its corporate culture and environment
• Candidates must have prior Microsoft experience.
• Experience working with product and support teams
• Knowledgeable in Microsoft’s cloud offerings
• Relevant certifications like PROSCI or PMP
• Strong executive presence and the ability to establish a strong rapport in a small amount of time
• Prior management consulting experience

Salary range 100K-120K (Compensation will vary based on skills, experience and location)