Program Director, M&A
ViacomCBS
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Viacom is seeking a highly experienced, strategically minded Program Director with a successful track record of completing very large, complex projects, typically lasting more than a year and involving multiple vendors, multiple technologies, and broad implications for Viacom global. The Program Director’s main responsibility is to plan, track, and handle projects to which they are assigned. Specifically this role will be focused on Mergers & Acquisition / divestiture projects, in varying scale from enterprise wide down to individual operating unit or team. The role will identify partners and help define the project objectives and handle them according to Viacom-approved project frameworks, including Agile, Waterfall, and other project management approaches. You ought to be able to take an active senior leadership role in the team and build an environment that fosters the prescribed agile methods and processes. Finally, you are able to identify issues, resolve conflicts, call out risks if necessary, and work across the global organization to execute the project.
You will partner across the organization to promote collaboration and coordination amid contending priorities to ensure strategic and tactical product goals are delivered. You will also drive activities within the program, leading to predictable, quality delivery of value. In addition, you should be able to facilitate meetings and specific ceremonies, when applicable. This role will be instrumental in leading virtual teams and in time a small number of dedicated project managers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Understand primary partner program needs and establish/enhance practices to effectively deliver against those needs
• Frequently interact with a diverse group of executives, project managers, technology, and business sponsors, with exposure to the highest level of Viacom leadership
• Plan and implement integration as a result of mergers and acquisitions
• Execute the transition of acquired companies
• Facilitate program-level ceremonies, processes, and overall execution
• Actively track, analyze, and report on program initiatives, operations metrics, and budgets
• Responsible for budget and resource management
• Identify and handle risks and impediments that affect program scope, schedule, and quality
• Drive decisions while coordinating with global, cross functional teams
• Manage dependencies and risks within and across programs
• Collaborate with and lead other Program Managers, Scrum Managers, and Project Managers to coordinate initiatives across multiple technology teams, from inception to delivery to consumer
• Facilitate the creation and maintenance of a program roadmap, in close collaboration with Product Management, Engineering and various disciplines across the enterprise
• Facilitate cross-team scrum-of-scrums, where applicable
• Act as liaison for the program to other programs and management
• Assist in fine-tuning framework for cross-team communication, coordination of integration among components, and related governance
• Handle projects (when applicable) and their interdependencies to ensure achievement alignment and integrity of the delivery
• Manage multiple initiatives concurrently (as needed)
• Facilitate the production of high-level documentation around existing operational processes and proposed workflows within net new systems or optimized existing systems
• Participate in extensive cross-organization collaboration (e.g. quarterly planning), playing a crucial role in working with end users and business partners
• Manage relationships and deliverables from associated vendors (when applicable)
Basic Qualifications
• 10 years of experience in program/project management
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Business Management, Project Management or related field
• Experience in a well-established, high-performing software development environment
• Proven knowledge of Agile frameworks and software engineering practices, as well as traditional project management approaches
• Strong understanding of associated domain (related technologies, processes, etc.)
• Experience in appropriately handling risks, high-pressure projects and conflict resolution
Additional Qualifications
• Demonstrate experience and strategic leadership in M&A type projects, ideally within the media industry
• Work well independently and in an environment with a high degree of ambiguity
• Facilitate efforts in larger and more critical/complex programs and operational activities that involve integrating the work of multiple large teams
• Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams with minimal influence from management; work effectively with all levels of management and employees
• Participate in knowledge sharing forums to encourage program and project delivery excellence
• Be an advocate for delivery excellence and challenge practices that impede quality
• Ability to understand technologies applicable to assigned product or service area and facilitate resolution of technical needs as they arise
• Comfortable and experienced in leading business and technology in vetting technical options
• Strong written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation skills