LDC IT Planning Manager

Major accountabilities:

• Manage and maintain Program roadmap and release plans (key activities, deliverables, and milestones).
• Understand the interdependencies in integrated program plan spanning across releases and identify bottlenecks and impacts triggered by plan changes.
• Facilitate plan changes, their impacts and manage their endorsement at various program executive levels.
• Work closely with Release and workstream leads with relation to planning topics.
• Work closely with KPI team to report progress against the plan.
• Ensure sufficient awareness of the plan including ownership of SW tools related to planning.
• Be an active member of Program PMO team, look for improvements and simplifications.

Key performance indicators:

• Keep up to date plans with key activities, dependencies and milestones.
• Stakeholder satisfaction
• Maintaining awareness of the plans across various teams within the program

Minimum Requirements: 
Work Experience:

• Project/program management experience, leadership of E2E IT project delivery
• Exposure to analytical roles (IT or BU)
• Experience with ERP systems or from Pharma industry is a plus

Skills:

• Change Management.
• Decision Making Skills.
• Project/Program Management.
• Project Risk Management.
• Project Team Management.
• Stakeholder Engagement.
• Advanced interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under pressure, meeting the deadlines.
• Analytical thinking
• Ability to learn fast in complex and evolving environment.
• Advanced user of MS Project, MS Office, Jira is a plus