Your Career

We are looking for an experienced program and delivery manager to join the Palo Alto Network’s Core Applications Group.  This role will have a focus on our Core Application practice - to innovate and execute on some of the most critical enterprise initiatives. Reporting to the VP of Core Applications, this Senior Program Manager will develop best-in-class processes that are simple, scalable, and results-oriented.  The ideal candidate will have a background in ERP (SAP), well-versed in agile methodologies, and possess deep expertise in effectively implementing these methodologies across a fast-paced, dynamic organization.  This role requires expert communication skills with an ability to distill complex programs into concise and well-articulated presentations at scale.  This position will make data-driven decisions to continuously monitor and track progress across multiple initiatives. All of this will be accomplished by building strong cross-functional partnerships.

Your Impact

• Effectively work with Business Stakeholders, Product Managers, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to align business strategy and program execution.

• Drive roadmaps, develop new tools, and collaborate with stakeholders to help scale process capabilities with the growth of the organization and company

• Plan, coordinate and manage a large portfolio of Core Application Initiatives, lead program management team meetings, identify cross-functional dependencies, anticipate, minimize and mitigate risks.

• Business value driven initiatives with tangible outcomes, establish and monitor process and project KPI’s 

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with multiple levels including executive leadership team, managers, and peers.

• Partner with outbound teams to facilitate product launch activities and framework for feedback and escalation management

• Provide in-depth analysis on product adoption, customer maturity model and drive adoption strategies.

• Develop and deliver presentations, memos, and reports for the executive team.

• Iterate on portfolio and program management standards and successfully deploy across the Applications organization.

• Demonstrate a curiosity and a lean towards challenging existing processes to continuously optimize.

• Assist with the development of business cases and business value analyses.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of Program Management experience in a fast moving, agile environment in a high growth company.

• Deep understanding of OTC, P2P, R2R processes, understanding dependencies, identification of risk/mitigation plans

• MUST HAVE at least 5 years dedicated to managing IT programs in Core applications such as SAP, Automation (UiPath), M&A (Lead To Cash)

• Experience driving quarterly portfolio planning workshops using proven frameworks to optimize ROI and measurable business value.

• Excellent communication skills, problem solving, conflict resolution management, active listening, time management and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated consistent ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver technical solutions while mitigating or removing obstacles. Has a track record of overcoming project crises.

• Possess strong communication skills in both presentation and memo formats.

• Able to thrive in a fast-paced and highly technical IT environment with a strong foundational understanding of enterprise applications, infrastructure, information security, and operations.

• Hands-on expertise working with Agile/Scrum methodologies including agile tools (Jira, Confluence, smart sheet) required.

• Capable of hands-on build up of dashboards, data queries, and data analysis using tools such as tableau.

• A self-starter that uses great judgment to keep programs and projects moving forward and completed on target.

• Proven track record of achieving results through collaboration and teamwork.

• Incredible attention to detail and a drive that motivates others on the team.

• Highly collaborative team player that is comfortable providing and receiving open, real-time feedback to continuously up-level team performance.