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Our total rewards package offering includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards - not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.
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**Who we want**:
This role participates in the achievement of our objectives through management of our release process.
This individual is responsible for planning, scheduling and controlling the movement of enhancement releases to our global technical environments.
These releases are delivered with mínimal cross-function impact yet are designed to add value to business processes through improvement of our systems.
**What you will do**:
- Lead an organized and standardized approach to successfully updating or implementing enhancements to our systems through release cycles.
- In collaboration with functional release managers, prioritize and schedule enhancements for releases according to business value and financial constraints
- Employ project management principles to release management to shepherd teams through the process and enable swift and efficient scheduled releases to our global technical landscape
- Establish and maintain partnerships with internal and external cross functional stakeholders, including business partners, business analyst release managers, delivery release managers and portfolio managers
- Own and maintain the release calendar for major releases
- Own the release management process, which includes the procedures, compliance to the procedures and representing the process in audits
- Track enhancements as they progress throughout the release management lifecycle
- Track and report on release management metrics with consideration for key performance indicators, operating expectations and opportunities for improvement
- Rely on data to accurately report financial performance that can inform action and decision-making
- Track and reconcile actual financial outcomes against projections to inform go-forward forecast refinement
- Identify & mitigate risks to release management against portfolio constraints with stakeholders
- Ensure the release resource plan is aligned to inform portfolio forecast/capitalization projections
- Manage release financials, including forecasted spend for demand.
Cost management will extend the lifecycle of the release process and include tracking of forecasted, projected and actuals for internal resource time and external spend.
- Report progress of releases to management with specific emphasis on business objectives delivery, efficient resource deployment, effective risk and issue management, portfolio volatility with respect to scope and quality changes, and process improvements.
- Identify improvement opportunities and recommend strategic steps to capitalize on opportunities that will have a significant effect on profit and/or operational effectiveness for the organization.
- Monitor release health and financial status against relevant constraints, and guide and support project teams to mitigate any risks or issues that are identified.
- Gains stakeholder trust, and maintains open communication channels with stakeholders, including development teams and sponsors
- Stays calm under pressure timelines and seeks to add additional responsibility where appropriate to have an impact outside of core role
- Self-motivated: enjoys tackling goals, growing and developing, and is accountable for goals being met
- Consistently drives results
- Effective communicator and presenter: understands how to engage diverse audiences, adjust as appropriate and checks for understanding along the way
- Understand the importance of networking and utilizing that network to improve individual job performance
- Actively seeks to understand how goals fit into broader organizational goals
- Works to build customer centric solutions that are flexible as needs change, and incorporates customer feedback quickly
- Can consolidate large amounts of data, pinpoint valuable information free of personal bias to make timely and durable decisions
- Understands when to take risk and when to escalate, evaluating issues based on parts, patterns and relationships.
- Is able to pressure test ideas and share conclusions with a broader audience in a concise manner.
- Exercises good judgment regarding when and how to escalate issues
- Growth mindset - learns from previous mistakes and picks up new skills quickly
- Identify and evangelize process improvement opportunities for release, process and financial management.
- Experience in demand and project planning, reporting, prioritization, and budgeting.
- Experience in system environment air traffic control
**What you need**:
**Knowledge and Capabilities**
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, or a related field.
- 2+ years of work experience in a PMO or financial analyst role is required
- CAPM or equivalent preferred
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