Position Summary:
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Look no further!
Rainforest Alliance is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Program Manager
to join our exceptional team. As a Program Manager, you will play a crucial
role in leading all aspects of and managing our IT projects, ensuring their
successful implementation and delivery.
As a world-class organization committed to sustainability and environmental
conservation, Rainforest Alliance offers a unique opportunity for individuals
who are passionate about making a difference.
Responsibilities:
- Successfully manage and lead all aspects of a portfolio of IT
data projects and programs, ensuring flawless execution and timely
delivery
- Accountable for relevant initiative level planning and
alignment, data-based forecasting, reporting, identifying and resolving
program level risks and blockers
- Support IT and data program roadmap development, tracking
delivery across initiatives, dependencies across the extended organization
and maintaining consistency of approach and a clear governance framework
- Coordinating testing and program quality assurance of the
developed product and release to customers, e.g. readiness decisions and
post release retro / lessons learnt discussions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine project
scope, objectives, and deliverables
- Acting as a trusted advisor to the Product, Technology &
Domain Leads collaborating with them to deliver business and customer
value
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related
field, or equivalent experience
- Proven track record of at least 8 years in in leading IT
programs and program management
- At least 3 years of management experience in an international
IT environment.
- Demonstrated experience in IT strategic program development
and implementation.
- Strong experience with both commercial make and buy software
development (SLDC), and offshore supplier management; using Agile
methodologies such as SAFe
- Knowledge of emerging technology trends such as LLM / AI, and
their practical implementation are a major plus
- A solid background in data orientated program delivery, data
lake warehouse formation a major plus
- Strong project and program management skills with an emphasis
on delivering a portfolio of diverse date, software and technology vendors
programs, professional certifications such as PMP expected
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experienced people manager with a proven ability to coach,
supervise and motivatestaff, ideally through continuous transformation
- Familiarity with environmental and sustainability issues is a
plus.
How To Apply
