Lead Technology Project & Program Manager

Technical Project & Program Manager

Wolters Kluwer Health Business Transformation team is searching for a strong Technical Project & Program Manager to play an important role in our transition to a new consolidated suite of business systems across the segments. The Technical Project & Program Manager will be responsible for managing all aspects of diverse, medium to moderately complex CRM, Salesforce CPQ, middleware, custom integrations, data migration and business transformation projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality and cost. The person in this position will also play an active role as an internal change agent ensuring adoption of new processes and systems throughout the organization.

This senior Technical Project & Program Manager must have strong technical and organizational skills and be an informed team leader that makes timely decisions within a high energy, fast-paced environment. This is a tremendous opportunity for someone with a passion for improving business results by transforming the business systems and processes of a leading healthcare information technology company.

Responsibilities

Manage the end-end project lifecycle for our strategic CRM, Salesforce and other projects

Create project plans, identify constraints and dependencies

Proactively manage project risks and mitigation

Control scope and evaluate business priorities to efficiently balance resources and projects

Define goals, measure progress, manage cross functional team dependencies and timelines

Facilitate requirements gathering and fit gap sessions

Maintain project documentation in MS Project, Confluence, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams

Participate in a cross functional Steering Committees and facilitate trade-off / prioritization discussions as well as discuss risks and mitigation strategies

Lead cross functional teams, hold regular project reviews, and drive progress towards milestones and deliverables, including with vendors and internal / external implementation partners

Collaborate and work cross-functionally with various areas of the organization to identify resource, budget and time constraints, provide direction on finding solutions to issues

Ensure that key stakeholder objectives are achieved throughout the transformation (including status updates, reporting, schedule tracking, and cost tracking)

Produce clear and concise executive reports and have confidence to present to an executive-level audience on project status and progress including financial recognition

Manage dependencies between multiple projects and multiple business unit needs

Successfully lead the delivery of projects utilizing direct and non-direct reports

Be an informed project leader that makes and drives timely decisions within a high energy fast-paced environment

Qualifications

Education : Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business or an equivalent field, or MBA or equivalent understanding of business process and financial concepts

Experience :

7+ years of project management experience

5+ year experience as a project manager on complex transformational technical projects

Prior experience directly managing CRM, Salesforce, CPQ and related implementations in an Enterprise environment

Expert knowledge in all lead to order operations

Able to converse in technical language and possess knowledge of Salesforce, CRMs and other systems, systems integration, data and application development

Experience in the identification, assessment, and management of risks; able to manage the risks, not just the risk log.

Experience with work estimation on technical projects

Familiarity with Agile and SDLC

Excellent interpersonal and communications skills with a demonstrated ability to interact with high level non-technical stakeholders as well as technical development teams in a global environment

Experience working with cross functional teams comprised of internal resources, shared enterprise resources and 3rd?party vendors / implementation partners

Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

Comfortable in developing effective relationships with cross functional stakeholders, senior leadership, and scrum teams across the organization

Conflict management skills including the ability to work with and resolve conflicting needs and requirements

Ability to analyze data, properly articulate and take proactive action on risks and dependencies

Ability to comprehend and communicate technical concepts

Possess a sense of accountability and pride for delivering on time and on budget with expected quality

Strong organization skills, ability to prioritize in the face of multiple project demands and focus on critical details

Strong interpersonal leadership skills and ability to commit, influence, motivate and successfully manage teams while working in a matrix / dotted line management structure, teams are not direct reports

Ability to learn new concepts / hardware / technologies quickly

Excellent meeting management, presentation, and facilitation skills

Self-motivated, able to stay on track, pursue solutions without supervision, and willing to do what it takes to get the job done

Experience with Change Management methodologies desired

Experience with multinational corporate structures is a strong plus

PMI and / or Lean / Agile certification(s) are required