Zero Trust Program Manager coordinating and executing SSA’s Zero Trust Architecture initiative. Managing program integration, reporting, and interagency coordination while ensuring alignment with federal guidance.
About the role
- Program Manager overseeing internal coordination for CDW’s partnership with LA28. Ensuring alignment, managing deliverables, and fostering collaboration across teams for strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Ensure internal processes and standards are consistently applied across the program.
- Track program budgets, consolidate financial data for leadership, and analyze budget-to-actual variances.
- Recommend adjustments and mitigate financial risks.
- Monitor margins and ensure alignment with CDW’s financial targets.
- Validate program scope and estimates.
- Assess the impact of changes and develop strategies to minimize risk and maintain alignment with objectives.
- Continuously align program scope with CDW’s business goals.
- Recommend modifications to enhance effectiveness and achieve strategic outcomes.
- Identify risks within CDW’s internal landscape, assess their impact, and implement mitigation plans.
- Communicate risks and strategies to internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate dependencies across all program work streams.
- Proactively manage internal resource allocation, optimize schedules, and resolve constraints to minimize program impact.
- Develop and own the program communication plan, consolidating updates from all work streams for internal stakeholders.
- Take full accountability for program outcomes and fiscal responsibility to CDW.
- Build trust through strong relationships with internal stakeholders and leadership.
- Navigate complex situations with diplomacy and professionalism.
- Champion continuous improvement by defining best practices, developing standards, and creating training for program-related processes.
- Synthesize information across work streams and deliver clear, actionable updates to internal stakeholders.
- Lead and facilitate effective meetings—both live and virtual—ensuring focus, clarity, and timely follow-up.
- Adapt communication style to audience needs and organizational dynamics.
- Develop strategies and content for internal presentations and craft strategic messaging.
- Use organizational awareness and multiple communication channels to deliver key messages effectively.
Requirements
- Bachelor degree in business or computer related field or equivalent experience
- 9 or more years of experience in delivering quality Infrastructure Project Management
- Five or more years of experience in leading significant Microsoft or Advanced Technology projects across all solution areas
- Significant success leading projects with enterprise or strategic customers that may encompass several technologies
- Suggest and initiate new processes to improve best practices within the Project Management team
- Demonstrated ability take accountability for projects and their results, be fiscally responsible and lead teams to meet project success factors
- Working knowledge of one or more formal project management methodologies proficiency with tools such as Microsoft Project/Office
- Ability to leverage business acumen, political savvy, relevant personal and CDW experience, perseverance and communication skills to build credibility
- Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills. Adjusts communication based on complex political landscape.
- Ability to assimilate information from across all projects in the program and distills the information for the appropriate stakeholder
- Ability to work weekends and/or off hours as necessary to meet clients' needs
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% or as needed to other CDW locations, meetings and client sites
- Ability to understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information
- Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology
- Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize. Work a hybrid schedule in Los Angeles office
Benefits
- Annual bonus target of 15% subject to terms and conditions of plan
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