Program Manager

Program Manager

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

GreenLake Cloud Platform is an internally developed innovative cloud-stack that powers HPE’s Cloud Solutions.  The GreenLake Cloud Platform is a unified operational experience that provides a simplified view and access to all cloud services, spanning the entire HPE portfolio, with single sign-on access, security, compliance, elasticity, and data protection. The Greenlake Cloud Platform is the foundation to a rich set of cloud services in networking, data services, high performance computing and compute operations management.

The Greenlake Cloud Platform team offers the opportunity to apply your knowledge and experience to contribute to architecting and building the platform and applications on a top distributed backend. Be part of a fast-paced development team and learn how to build solutions that make a difference.

About the Job:

• Manages and oversees a program involving one or more functions and project teams to drive the engineering development and implementation process for a subsystem or component of a product or service offering.
• Ensure alignment of programs with organizational vision and strategy.
• Work with teams across the globe to produce accurate and realistic delivery schedules, including go-to-market launch dates.
• Design and implement program principles that define program deliverables, goals, and metrics.
• Coordinates activities of supporting project teams and internal and external development partners
• Tracks progress against established plans and decisions to alter or update schedule and resource allocation to meet product requirements and development schedule.
• Communicates program progress, escalations, and issue assessment to product stakeholders.
• Oversees and provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members.
• Manage product team and project resources and drive them to a common delivery goal in line with product management expectations.
• Identify and manage risk and change control across the program and identify dependencies between programs and workstreams.
• Recommend and deliver reporting & KPIs to enable effective decision-making for the program stakeholders.
• Promote the use of best practice frameworks to deliver efficiencies.
• Assess project retrospectives and trends by engaging with different product workstreams.
   

About You:

• Using project planning tools and software packages to create, manage, and track project results.
• Ability to effectively communicate program plans, proposals, and results and negotiate options at management levels.
• Strong Program Management skills
• Outstanding leadership and organization skills
• Ability to quickly understand new products and projects and how they align with the organizational strategy and vision.
• Ability to build and sustain positive relationships with individuals across disparate geographic locations and teams.
• Strong listening, data collection, and reporting skills.
• Recognize and evaluate the organization's impact on project scope and anticipate consequences of alternative actions.
• Ability to communicate effectively and comfortably up and down the management structure.
• Ability to manage program conflicts as well as come up with creative solutions.
• Ability to identify process improvement opportunities and approaches.
• Solid understanding of product release management, the customer, the marketplace, the business, industry trends, best practices, and agile methodologies
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Sharepoint, MS Project, Jira, Confluence, PowerBI
• Project Management certification (PMP or equivalent) preferred.
• Very Strong knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle and end-to-end product launch processes.
   

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Management, Engineering, Computer Sciences