Program Manager

2 weeks ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Corporate Staffing Services Full time

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Position Summary:

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Look no further Rainforest Alliance is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Program Manager to join our exceptional team. As a Program Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading all aspects of and managing our IT projects, ensuring their successful implementation and delivery.

As a world-class organization committed to sustainability and environmental conservation, Rainforest Alliance offers a unique opportunity for individuals who are passionate about making a difference.

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Responsibilities:

  • Successfully manage and lead all aspects of a portfolio of IT data projects and programs, ensuring flawless execution and timely delivery

  • Accountable for relevant initiative level planning and alignment, data-based forecasting, reporting, identifying and resolving program level risks and blockers

  • Support IT and data program roadmap development, tracking delivery across initiatives, dependencies across the extended organization and maintaining consistency of approach and a clear governance framework

  • Coordinating testing and program quality assurance of the developed product and release to customers, e.g. readiness decisions and post release retro / lessons learnt discussions

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine project scope, objectives, and deliverables

  • Acting as a trusted advisor to the Product, Technology & Domain Leads collaborating with them to deliver business and customer value

    Requirements:
    • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience

    • Proven track record of at least 8 years in in leading IT programs and program management

    • At least 3 years of management experience in an international IT environment.

    • Demonstrated experience in IT strategic program development and implementation.

    • Strong experience with both commercial make and buy software development (SLDC), and offshore supplier management; using Agile methodologies such as SAFe

    • Knowledge of emerging technology trends such as LLM / AI, and their practical implementation are a major plus

    • A solid background in data orientated program delivery, data lake warehouse formation a major plus

    • Strong project and program management skills with an emphasis on delivering a portfolio of diverse date, software and technology vendors programs, professional certifications such as PMP expected

    • Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.

    • Experienced people manager with a proven ability to coach, supervise and motivatestaff, ideally through continuous transformation

    • Familiarity with environmental and sustainability issues is a plus.

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