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Job Title
Communications & High Tech - Program Manager I - Seattle, WA
Location
Seattle, WA
Listing Date
May 12, 2008
Reference Number
262146
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Not Disclosed
Experience Requirements
None Given
Accenture
Recruiter Accenture
Company Web Site
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Job Title: Communications & High Tech - Program Manager I - Seattle, WA
Company Name: Accenture
Required Technical Skills:
Program Management
Job Description:
Organization: Communications & High Tech
Location: Seattle, WA
If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.
Accenture’s Services workforce is a dedicated team of people who work on outsourcing engagements. These are long-term partnerships with clients for whom we manage and provide increasingly specialized business operations, such as finance and accounting, IT, applications development and maintenance, help desk services, and HR. We not only maintain key business functions for clients, we constantly seek to improve them to help our clients move ahead of the competition.
Job Description
A Program Manager Level I requires excellent project management, collaboration, communication and leadership capabilities. The manager will have an enthusiasm for helping others succeed, and demonstrated creativity and experience. Strong communication skills, solid design skills, and the ability to think critically and come up with creative solutions to problems are essential. Must have strong leadership skills and be able to own all aspects of a project. The successful candidate will have proven ability to work across divisions as well as the ability to provide organizational leadership.
Key responsibilities may include:
- Monitor implementation (planning through delivery) of a small to medium product or program
- Act as “hub,” collecting information from the internal project team and communicating status to project management, other Microsoft teams and external vendors
- Provide business owners and product management technical and analytical information
- Provide internal team with overall team status and updates from other Microsoft groups
- Provide input to functional specifications and detailed system design, ensures spec is agreed to and is supported by the project schedule
- Facilitate issues resolution and trade-off decisions with other teams, senior management and business owners
- Document, communicate and administer key project management (e.g. scope, schedule, issue, risk, quality, and communication)
- Manage actual project cost to the budget
- Manage the work of cross-functional teams implementing technologies and systems solutions involving multiple components, interfaces and user groups
- Prepare presentations to communicate project goals
- Conduct post-mortem review of project and provide feedback on delivery approach
Sample Project Deliverables
- Project Schedule
- Progress Reports and Status
- Issue Log and Resolution/Escalation Approach
- Communication Plan
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- One year of experience of Program Management related experience
- Bachelor's degree
- One year experience in project planning
- One year experience using MS Project to manage tasks
Professional Skill Requirements
- One year of Program Management related experience
- Experience in project planning and using MS Project to manage tasks
- Solid understanding of software architectures, MS Products, software and development lifecycle
- Ability to lead and manage team efforts, strong team building skills
- Ability to work within a budget and direct day to day activities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Sound judgment, analytical skills, decision-making skills and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure required
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- May require specialized knowledge as defined by project
Our people are our most important asset and we invest considerable resources to provide on-going training that builds and extends professional, technical and management skills in all areas. Your learning program will be determined by the requirements of your specific role but will usually involve specialized skills as well as personal and leadership development. You will work with your manager to determine what skills you need and how to build them.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
**Please note you will be re-directed to JobServe to submit your resume
About Accenture:
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The main reason people choose a career at Accenture is because of the work we do. With many of the word’s leading companies as our clients—including 91 of the Fortune Global 100, two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world—every project we undertake is helping shape the future of business, government and society.
Another reason to join Accenture is because our people enjoy working here. Join Accenture and you will work in a dynamic environment, teaming with motivated people that make ideas happen. We have an extremely diverse workforce, but are united by a common culture. We promote an inclusive, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where people use teamwork, respect and trust to achieve goals.
You’ll find the flexibility that helps you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. And you’ll have access to a renowned training program throughout your career to support your career development and stay at the top of your game. We offer around 80 more training hours than our competitors—in 2006 alone we invested nearly $700 million in training and provided an average of 75 hours of training per person.
With 152,000 employees in 49 countries, we bring together the unique experiences and perspectives of a diverse workforce to help clients become high-performance businesses. In other words, we help them become more successful in every part of their business, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. This includes helping them identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, and deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently.
The sheer scale of our technology capabilities and client engagements differentiates what we do from most other companies. Many of our clients are global organizations, so we build systems that operate across several countries and even continents—creating the digital infrastructure of business today. We know better than most how to mobilize the right people, skills, alliances, and technologies to deliver innovation and results that create high-performance businesses.
Visit our website to learn more about Accenture and all of our career opportunities.www.uscareers.accenture.com
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