Senior Program Manager

Company Description

NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

NBC Universal’s Quality & Project Management (QPM) team provides PMO services across large initiatives within Technical Opeartions and Enterprise Engineering. The team is seeking a Senior Program Manager that will be instrumental in managing key relationships while overseeing large-scale technology programs for the Corporate Business Solutions portfolio. This person will be instrumental in developing processes for a critical subportfolio while also managing a high-profile program. The programs related to Corporate Business Solutions are core to delivering key projects and initiatives to enable NBCU's business evolution in a fast-changing Media and Entertainment market.

• Create and manage program charters, schedules, resource plans, program budgets, and financial cost/benefit models
• Continually collaborate with executives and stakeholders, document requirements/scope and dependencies, and host program kick-offs
• Execute multiple programs across the Enterprise Engineering  team and ensure objectives + deliverables are accomplished according to plan
• Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and changes effectively by optimizing scope, schedule, and resources accordingly
• Provide program-level status updates and reporting to sponsor and stakeholders, and facilitate regular program status meetings (including agendas, presentations, minutes, action items and follow-up)
• Build strong partnerships to mobilize program/project team members and influence across a range of leaders, internal teams, and external suppliers
• Participate in program intake, facilitate program prioritization discussions, and collect high-level requirements
• Follow and contribute to standards, best practices, processes, and documentation for the Program Management team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 4 years equivalent experience in Product Management, Business Administration, Project/Program Management or a related field
• Minimum 6-8 years of technical end-to-end system implementation Program / Project Management experience through design, development, testing, launch, and post-launch support as needed.
• Excellent interpersonal demeanor and strong executive presence
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Works well under pressure
• Proactive and strong sense of ownership
• Detail-orientated and self-starter
• Demonstrated teamwork capabilities
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and team members
• Strong business partnering and cross-functional leadership skills
• Ability to drive results and hold teams accountable
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment
• Experience with Microsoft - Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
• Proficiency in MS Project

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing Financial Planning & Analysis of programs while maintaining large scale budgets
• Experience managing global projects teams with competing priorities, diverse business objectives, and time zones constraints
• Ability to collect information from multiple sources, document concepts using data + visualizations, and present complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience within media and entertainment industry
• Experience with Microsoft 365
• Experience in IT, Agile Product & App Development environment highly preferred
• Experience with JIRA, Lucidchart, Smartsheet, Tableau or PowerBI
• Program Management Professional (PgMP), Project Management Professional (PMP), and/or Certified Scrum Master