Business Strategy Program Manager

Posted Oct 6

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join our family at Pricefx, a leading SaaS Pricing (Price Optimization & Management) and CPQ (Configure-Price-Quote) vendor. Experiencing consistent annual growth, Pricefx remains committed to stable employment. We value flexibility and provide home office and remote work opportunities. Our product boasts outstanding customer reviews ranging from small companies to renowned names such as Michelin, Sonoco, Danone, Avery Dennison, and Bosch.

With branches in 7 countries and over 30 nationalities, Pricefx is a genuinely international and diverse company, fostering a warm, welcoming, and respectful environment. Join us at Pricefx and be part of a winning team that values your unique contributions, encourages accountability and personal growth, and celebrates collective achievements.

Summary:

The Business Strategy Program Manager will execute and coordinate several related projects at the same time and facilitating communication between project teams and key stakeholders. This includes coordination of projects, analysis of interdependencies, allocation of resources, management of risk and opportunities. In this role you will partner effectively with all levels of the organization building out cross-functional project plans attending to the overall strategy, implementation, and delegation to ensure projects are on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of stakeholders. You will work directly with the Chief of Staff to ensure we have a standardized methodology, governance, framework, and business acumen to scale project management competency throughout the organization.

Details:

The Business Strategy Program Manager plays a key role in ensuring we have a standardized methodology, governance, framework, and business acumen to scale project management competency throughout the organization. This role involves building cross-functional project plans attending to the overall strategy, implementation, and delegation to ensure projects are on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of stakeholders. You will work to

The primary responsibility of this role is focuses on the execution side of project management, which involves preparing, supporting, and equipping project teams to adopt and use project management business processes and procedures, systems and technology, RACI roles and responsibilities, through project charters and project plans. They will oversee multi-project lifecycles from discovery, initiation, planning, execution, and closure.

The goal of this role is to gain a strategic understanding of company goals and align projects by creating sound strategies that will push the company’s performance through their daily work. This includes anticipating and minimizing project friction and risk that could significantly impact timeline, budget, and resources to complete project. All while developing strong relationships with team members and maintaining effective communication.

The role will not have supervisory responsibility, but they must work with and through many others in the organization to succeed. Excelling under pressure, the role takes on a sense of ownership and responsibility for a program/project to achieve success. The program manager will leverage their strategic thinking and adaptability to successfully guide teams through the dynamic world of project management that delivers tangible results and creates a lasting impact on the organization’s growth and development.

Your mission?

Drive significant projects that are strategically important to the business, including but not limited to growth and expansion along with cross-functional process builds, improvements, and integrations.
Establish program/project status reporting and deliver executive briefings to update senior leaders and stakeholders.
Independently drive work streams including structuring and breaking down complex problems, creating work plans, driving cross-functional alignment and ultimately delivering tailor-made recommendations and solutions that drive creative and rapid positive outcomes for the business.
Oversee the development and implementation of internal project management processes and systems, identifying areas of improvement, ensuring efficient and repeatable operations throughout project lifecycle.

Additional Responsibilities:

Provide strategic support to executives by conducting research, preparing materials, and advising on key decisions to influence project plan.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and execute strategic project plans and ensure alignment with the overall business objectives.
Act as a liaison between key stakeholders, including senior management, change management, employees, and external partners.
Monitor key performance indicators and provide regular updates to the business on progress towards achieving project goals.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enhance collaboration and ensure seamless communication.
Manage special projects as needed, ensuring timely completion and alignment with the organization's strategic objectives.

What should you have to succeed?

Strong background and passion for project management, program management, business operations and strategy, and/or business planning and execution.
Led large, complex, cross-functional projects: process improvement, systems implementation, and/or organizational transformation.
Data-driven decision making with a strong bias towards action.
Ability and desire to run initiatives end-to-end with full ownership.
Strong attention to detail, self-motivated, organized, and analytical.
Ability to align stakeholders with a common set of priorities and plans.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Experience working with project planning tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Jira, Confluence).
Ability to meet deadlines and comfortable with executive level presentations.
Flexible team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.
Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges.
Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle.
Experience with scale-up chaotic high growth global change efforts.
5+ years of PM leadership role.
Project management certification or designation desired.

Location

Remote Opportunity

Other job specifics…

Full-time employment
Ability to travel domestically up to 20%, occasional international travel

What will you love about us?

Our employees appreciate the warm and friendly atmosphere, as well as the flexibility and growth opportunities we provide. Check out our Glassdoor & Atmoskop scores and reviews.

We will support your home office setup with a monthly IT allowance. We prioritize work-life balance and, in addition to vacation, offer work anniversary, birthday, and CSR days off. Building a sense of community is important. We organize regular virtual or in-person meetups and many social activities and challenges.

We’re proud also to offer some amazing benefits.

We will give you the option of your own devices by providing a monthly $260-IT allowance (laptop, mobile, and internet).
We match your 401K contribution dollar for dollar up to 4%, and your contributions are vested immediately.
4 weeks of paid time off (PTO), 14 public holidays each year, and your birthday off.
We have amazing healthcare coverage sponsored by the ADP platform.
We offer 12 weeks of 100% paid maternity leave.

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