Program Manager

Introducing any change successfully requires experience in understanding how to effectively integrate the "old" with the "new." Nimble Consulting, Inc. has successfully partnered with clients in various industries experiencing significant change - whether driven by new strategy, new leaders, new markets or innovative ideas, shifting customer demands, the economy or regulatory factors.

Position Overview

We are looking for experienced Program Managers with a proven background working across organizational, process or technology projects for Fortune 500 clients. The focus of this position is to work with the Business side of the client organization, whether it is an IT, process or re-org project. We look for contractors that can round out project needs as they arise on short term basis.

Key Responsibilities as a Program Manager for Nimble, the projects will be high-impact for Fortune 500 clients, involving various vendors, workstreams and stakeholders. Need for political savvy, expert PMO and PM skillset and ability to operate in dynamic and fast paced environments. 

We look for contractors that can round out project needs as they arise on short term basis. Project locations are in the Bay Area, California, as primary location; with other West coast opportunities as they arise.

You'll need to be local and able to be on-site 5 days a week with the client (40 hour-week onsite and additional hours as needed).
Be willing to be a contractor for this role (Corp to Corp, 1099 or Temporary W2) and understand that the client site location is considered the "Office Location" and therefore the commute will not be reimbursable from a mileage perspective.  

Responsibilities

• Identifying success metrics, issues, risks, constraints and understanding/ documenting workflow, standards, and business requirements for the client project
• Managing project scope and vendor management: Defining workstreams, roles, and managing contracts for scopes of work under different vendors; proven methods of keeping teams accountable for quality, on-time delivery of work
• Managing cost, conducting regular cost projections and tracking regular spend across the team; identifying potential risks or overruns in advance with options for the client to consider as far as re-prioritization of scope across the team

PMO activities: 

• Setting up a governance and PMO structure to track and drive all workstreams across the project team that may be led by various vendors and individuals depending on the project: The Business client team, IT team, training, change management, HR, legal, data conversion team, etc.
• Identifying, documenting and managing the key dependencies and deliverables across the project
• Managing across the team the scheduling, logistics, support for common activities across workstreams (reaching out to SMEs in the client space, executive meetings, requirements gathering, etc.)
• Documentation and regular publication of meeting notes & actions, tracking issues and resolutions, via SharePoint or other available technology
• Maintain and update SharePoint site and project website - knowledge management across teams for timely information sharing and decision-making across dependencies
• Onboarding new team members and building a process for doing so on a regular basis.
• Metrics reporting and regular dashboard reporting for the client executive steering committees
• Shepherd the internal client project management activities and deliverables required at all phases of the project

Note: Local travel as required by the client (Currently travel is in the bay area only, but there could be client work requiring further travel as needed).

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