Senior Program Manager

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The Senior Digital Solutions (DS) Program Manager is responsible for the end to end delivery of DS cross functional programs for new and existing customers ensuring allocated projects are tracked, managed and implemented in an effective manner, to the required specification and within budget.

The Program Manager works directly with customer business and internal Iron Mountain teams to implement business process management solutions. Demonstrating excellent leadership and teamwork is essential to ensure engagement models are followed and all relevant parties are updated on project progress regularly. A key aspect of the role is the effective communication across internal and external boundaries without exception ensuring clarity on workload management, scope, deliverables, activities and timescales.

Also required to participate in planning and deployment management of internal departmental efficiency and standards projects as required.

Responsibility:

• Responsible for leading implementation programs of highly complex, multi-service line, enterprise level technical solutions for DS customers. Duties include: setting realistic expectations, developing implementation methodology and strategy, developing a detailed plan to support the strategy, reporting status and executing the plan.

• Manages a matrixed project team including different internal areas based on the project requirements and also works directly with customer project management and their technical resources, provides direction to cross-functional team members.

• Ensures internal stakeholder requirements are met including performance, quality, and financial goals.

• Accountable for ensuring the right level of resource available for projects which require support through load balancing between temporary and permanent resources. Also look to utilize ‘Talent’ within the organization.

• Work closely with assigned Program Managers from other departments on required complex programs with multiple IRM platforms. Ensure Roles and Responsibilities are identified prior to customer and workstream team engagement. Ensure alignment for the duration of the project.

• Creates and manages the program-level schedule by integrating individual workstream schedules and customer schedules into an overall plan. Manages the identification and coordination of dependent tasks and conflicting priorities.

• Lead the development of tools and enhancements to standardize and automate processes and procedures for onboarding customers and operating procedures.

• Participate in the identification of existing and non-existing processes benefitting from process improvement/efficiency for the department.  Assist with the creation of opportunity presentations that might be used to gain leadership buy-in.

• Manages customers through a system Change Control process including level of effort analysis and change implementation.

• Navigate both internally and externally within the organization to access resources and build consensus regarding strategy and direction of the project. Experience interfacing and managing customer relationships at the VP and above level.

• If required on programs, engage SMEs and manage contractually required Business Continuity Plan or Disaster Recovery Plan process and documentation creation, including test plans for simulated and/or live testing. Ensure plan, ownership and timelines are identified.

Knowledge skills & education:

• Requires 5-7 plus years of project management experience in a matrix and multi-project environment.

• Requires 3-5 plus years of experience managing implementations of highly technical, enterprise level BPO, Hosted, or similar systems;

• Bachelor’s degree in Management or related field preferred or equivalent work experience.

• PMP Certification. 

• Strong computer skills. Must be proficient with Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Meet, and have the ability to quickly become proficient with Digital Solution products. (Smartsheet experience preferred.)

• Ability to quickly understand tools required by customers to use for program management and communications that may not be on the IRM standard platform.

• Must have clear, executive level, excellent written and verbal communications skills – well targeted based on the level of audience within and outside the organization.

Desirable:

• Experience with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes;

• Experience with scanning projects Kofax Capture, Kofax KTM,  Globalscape.

• Experience with information management (DMS, ECM, Workflow Automation, BPM, A/P, Intelligent Document Processing, etc.).

• Experience within the outsourcing, SaaS, or hosted solutions industry is a plus

• National and International travels as required (25%-40% of time)

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