Position: Program Manager

Up to $125K+ DOE + Bonus
Local Candidates Only - No Sponsorship

Location: Burlington/Chelmsford, MA Area

Company:

My client is a very successful, close to a $100m+ in revenues, separate
division of a large public company and a leading supplier of secure media
solutions used in a wide range of security, identification and digital media
content applications. The company provides a variety of products, services,
and solutions that enable production of more than 60 million personal
identification documents per year in 32 U.S. states and the District of
Columbia and more than 20 countries.

Join, an energetic, fast growing division who is focused on delivering the
most advanced secure solutions in the personal identification domain.
Participate in the selling, technical management and delivery of critical
systems solutions as part of a customer focused team implementing advanced, state of the art, secure media solutions.
Excellent company - Strong Space - Lots of Upside.

Reports to the Director Level.

Position Responsibilities - Summary:

Reports to Director Level will manage teams up to 20 people or so in a
Matrixed environment.

- Develop clear program plans with all necessary functional areas
(including project schedule, budget, project codes, etc)

- Manage the budget of the delivery program throughout the life of
the program; update and publish ETC /EACs monthly

- Work with all functional managers throughout project to define and
monitor resource requirements/constraints and communicate/resolve resource
issues

- Hold project kick-off meeting to review specifications, schedule
and team roles and responsibilities

- Draft and follow communication plan that documents project meeting
and status reporting requirements

- Direct the development of detailed customer requirements,
installation and/or system integration plans in conjunction with system
engineering

- Maintain communication with systems engineer and technical
management to ensure timely resolution of any technical problems or
questions

- Ensure that engineering and Supply chain is aware and are current
with the latest upgrades and/or new releases per program plans

- Be involved in customer installation and training programs

- Act as company liaison with customer during course of project

- Properly close the project, including completion of the delivery
to operations handoff checklist and holding a project close meeting with the
team

Required Skills and Competencies:

- 8 years professional experience including five years in
program/project management

- Extensive project management experience in leading
cross-functional teams from project conception, through development, test,
pilot and delivery

- PMP or equivalent certification required

- Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to
manage a geographically distributed team or matrix team

- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities concurrently

- Prior experience working with states, the federal government,
International entities, & formal procurement processes (RFP’s) - Must Have.

- Strong Technical Background

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and Customer
relationship and interfacing Skills

- Strong proficiency in MS Office applications including MS Project,
Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio

- Ability to travel an average of 50% of the time within the United
States required. May be required to server as full-time in-state program
manager and stationed at customer location.

Compensation:

Competitive Base Salary - Up to $125K+ DOE + Bonus - Comprehensive Benefits
Package

No Relocation - Local Candidates Only - No sponsorship

Contact Information:

Gary Wright - President - Wright Associates
Phone - (508) 761-6354
Email - replywrightassociates AT verizon DOT net
Website - www.wrightassociates.org