Program Management Office Analyst
VMC Soft Technologies, Inc · Sunnyvale, CA
Apply & track with Apply Edge- Setting the standards and tools via which BPR completes its work.
- Running the management system which the BPR teams utilize to stay aligned and communicate internally.
- Acting as a program management function for key cross functional initiatives within Sales.
- As a background activity, there is change required to continue to mature and hone the tools, methods and techniques which we make available to the BPR teams.
- There are ongoing organizational development activities which need to be planned, scheduled and executed such as training programs, new joiner inductions, workshops, meetings.
Key Qualifications
- PMO support requires the person to be extremely versatile and open to learning new skills based on the need and scope
- Strong analytical skills with continuous process improvement mind set.
- High level of professionalism, energy, and sense of urgency to “make things happen.”
- Ability to use data to tell a story, drive root cause analysis and extract actionable insight. (This will require telling story using various methods – Keynote, Tableau dashboarding, Excel)
- Understanding of project, program, and portfolio planning and delivery to the level that you can support setting standards, propose policy, and coach others.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and Iterative.
- Good communication skills - verbal, written and presentation.
- Excellent teamwork skills and ability to influence others and an ability to quickly establish trust, credibility, and rapport.Education :
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experienceAdditional Requirements :
- Self-motivated, driven individual who is comfortable working in a global, matrixed, fast-paced environment with high levels of complexity and ambiguity.
- Innovative mindset and ability to think outside of the box, challenge status-quo, and incorporate industry best practices.
- Quality thinking, process improvement mindset necessary
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the Downtime process for the Sales Applications. This will require stakeholder management and “getting things done”
- Maintain the process repository and make enhancements as needed
- Roll out surveys to get feedback, analyse the data, follow through on action planning etc
- Enable Process improvement and efficiency across the portfolio.
- Provide visibility and transparency around relative value through metrics and reporting.
- The scope is not exhaustive, but versatility is key.
- A person with a great learning aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and ace them will be important to this roleSkills: Analytics~Project ManagementExperience Required: 8-10