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Procom Consultants Group

Sr. Portfolio/Program Manager

Procom Consultants Group, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246


Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada.

With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company.

Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include:

Application DevelopmentProject ManagementQuality AssuranceBusiness/Systems AnalysisDatawarehouse & Business IntelligenceInfrastructure & Network ServicesRisk Management & ComplianceBusiness Continuity & Disaster RecoverySecurity & Privacy

Specialties include:Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation)Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation)ICAP (Contractor Payroll)Flextrack (Vendor Management System)Job Description

On behalf of our client in the pipeline industry, Procom Services is looking for one Sr. Portfolio/Program Manager to provide their project expertise.Provide direction on business-facing application development programs. Manage senior stakeholder relationships, including negotiating priorities and making recommendations to program sponsors and steering committees, and other stakeholders across multiple departments and lines of business.Plan, develop and refine deliverables from multiple senior resources in Information Services and with business partners.Lead and manage project managers and/or project team members for IS projects.Manage program/project financials, contracts and other resources.Make day-to-day program/project decisions, and manage risks and issues.Decision Making:Makes decisions and recommendations on highly technical or complex issues autonomously. Exercises resourcefulness and ingenuity to interpret policy. Decides project resource assignments and program level day-to-day approvals within the scope of the program. Recommends program budgets, schedules of projects, and sequencing of projects to project and program sponsors. Provides decisions and solutions to program and project issues and analyzes options and impacts to mitigate risks with consultation of key stakeholders as required.Duties:Responsible for managing a program, potentially over multiple years to implement an integrated, corporate-wide set of solutions.Makes complex decisions and recommendations on project resource assignments and program level day-to-day approvals within the scope.Manages program budgets, schedules and sequencing of projects.Leads solution efforts to program and project issues and provides recommended options to mitigate risks.Leads and directs multiple projects executing concurrently, developing strategies and approaches for implementation of the program and long term sustainment under the direction of senior leadership and sponsors.Leads program-level resources, managing and collaborating with key suppliers, and providing ongoing communication, risk management, and quality management for the program.Scope of the work may cover multiple geographies and the anticipated size of the projects under management are large, multi-year IT initiatives typically $5M to $10M or more annually. Senior experience managing agile or hybrid custom application development projects is mandatory.Requires excellent planning abilities and advanced interpersonal / communication skills.Proven success related to quality and results is required.Mandatory Skills:Experience managing agile or hybrid custom application development projects.Excellent planning abilities and advanced interpersonal / communication skills.Experience managing projects of $5M to $10M or more annually.Able to manage multiple projects concurrently.Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Business or Equivalent Experience required.Nice to Have Skills:PMP certification.Experience within matrix organizations.October 31st 20166+ Month ContractAdditional Information

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