**Job Description :** **The Sr. Program Manager has extensive experience and advanced expertise in managing multiple complex initiatives in both an agile and waterfall way within the Technology group. This senior role is able to excel at managing projects and guiding teams as they transition from waterfall to agile delivery. They are creative problem solvers and are a trusted partner always looking for opportunities to add value. They support and mentor members of both the program for which they are responsible as well as for other staff within their functional organization. He /she will work with senior management (and stakeholders) across multiple Business Units and Departments to ensure that the value of projects within the program are realized incrementally as agreed and committed to by members of the program. They will also effectively communicate project status and risks/issues that might impact milestones bridging the gap between waterfall and agile delivery. In addition, as a senior member of the organization within the assigned location, the Sr. Program Manager will be responsible for ensuring administrative and logistical policies and processes are being followed and will also mentor / guide project staff outside their specific program(s).** **Location:** **Princeton, NJ / New York, NY** **Job responsibilities:** + **Is a senior leader in his / her physical location ensuring administrative activities are being given appropriate priority** + **Mentors less experienced staff in project management and agile delivery** + **Represents group’s leadership as needed** + **Facilitates requirements and scope definition. Collaborates with leaders and project team members in translating strategy and vision into actionable programs and projects.** + **Maintains an integrated Project Plan using appropriate tools such as, but not limited to Smartsheets, Planview, Jira, etc.,, ensuring adherence to standards and alignment with goals.** + **Works with the Technical Lead to define resources, milestones, goals, reporting and metrics for project / program implementation.** + **Works with the Technical Lead to create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.** + **Facilitates global project teams and manages conflict.** + **Conducts periodic briefings/status updates to stakeholders and executive management** + **Supports product owners, scrum masters and agile coaches in meeting objectives and following agile principles and practices** + **Ensures that the project is completed on time and meets established goals and objectives that support the financial and competitive goals of the organization.** + **Manages and tracks project budget with components that include human resources, suppliers, and general expenses to meet established return on investments per project.** + **Works with the team to ensure that defects are tracked; provides reporting as requested. Manages overall quality of deliverables and Captures and documents lessons learned.** + **Guides and coaches project managers and program members in agile concepts and best practices** **Job Requirements:** + **15+** **years project management experience managing all phases of multifaceted IT projects with day to day project management proven expertise.** + **5+ years agile program delivery** + **5+ years of experience in a direct supervisory role of multiple people** + **Experience working with and balancing deliverables from multiple teams and ensuring approvals prior to launch from those teams in order to deliver to scope, on time.** + **Manage critical cross-program dependencies and risks.** + **Experience managing projects across multiple timezones with remote resources** + **Proven ability to communicate effectively across all levels of expertise in business and IT.** + **Experience with workflow management, agile tools like Jira, SmartSheets, Trello, etc.** + **Budget and resource allocation management and forecasting** + **Experience ensuring overall KPIs are captured for projects that are metrics driven, baselined and measurable.** + **Degree level education preferred** + **Scrum, Kanban or related certification is preferred** + **Experience scaling agile teams and delivering programs with teams of teams** + **SAFe experience / certification a plus** **What we are looking for from you:** **Delivering Value** + **Leading end-to-end delivery across multiple teams by prioritizing around business value and validating benefits with customers** + **Exemplary management of stakeholders through proactive communication and exception handling** **Improving Continuously** + **Using metrics effectively to identify and implement opportunities for improvement in teams’ processes, and to capture the effectiveness of changes** + **Taking a methodical approach to prioritizing team improvements by balancing cost vs. value to the team** **Facilitating with Impact** + **Tailoring facilitation techniques to achieve great outcomes from challenging situations** + **Versatility in facilitation approaches (including facilitating from the sidelines) to foster greater collaboration between colleagues** **Leading with Agility** + **Application of Agile approaches to build collaborative, cross-functional teams delivering value to the business** + **Using Agile techniques to start teams from scratch with a clear approach for building backlogs, establishing delivery cadence and managing finances** **Planning Effectively** + **Using Agile techniques to transform complex, high-level business proposals into a roadmap with a clear, accurately estimated release plan** + **Managing your teams’ dependencies through influence, collaboration and organization** Job Category: Pay Range: 190000 - 220000 We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process. Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice. For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia. Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.