Verra Mobility is hiring a
Director Program Management

Summary

Join Verra Mobility Commercial Services, a global leader in smart mobility, as the Director of Program Management and play a pivotal role in orchestrating the successful development and launch of our program, product, and transformation efforts. You'll oversee complex programs and projects from start to finish, manage multiple projects simultaneously, drive them to successful completion, and lead PMO staff in planning and execution.

Requirements

• Minimum of 9 years of experience in program management, with a minimum of at least 4 years in a leadership role
• Exceptional project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and drive them to successful completion
• Proficiency in project management tools such as JIRA, MS project, Adaptive Work, or Monday.com
• Proven expertise in change management methodologies and continuous improvement practices, with a track record of successfully leading organizational change initiatives
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams and stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze data and metrics to inform decision-making and drive performance improvement
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including the ability to motivate and inspire teams, drive results, and foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Strong communicator in both verbal and written forms and are equally adept in communicating upwards, outwards, and downward

Responsibilities

• Oversee complex programs and projects from start to finish in a manner that meets business needs, follows standard PM methodologies, and best practices to ensure successful execution
• Create program structure and shared alignment on vision, strategy, business goals and requirements, and secure cross-functional teams dependencies' commitment
• Provide ongoing visibility to program status, key decisions, dependencies, issues, risks, and metrics to all stakeholders
• Anticipate and aggressively remove risks that slow down or prevent program teams from delivering on program outcomes throughout the entire development lifecycle
• Collaborate with multiple technology teams to ensure programs are designed to meet long-term company objectives
• Create a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity, speed, innovation, and learning
• Develop and maintain a understanding of all business systems, including third-party and in-house systems, and how they interact
• Make critical decisions in a time sensitive environment with an element of risk, focus on results and achieving objectives
• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholder to identify challenges and opportunities and to develop creative and innovative solutions
• Working with systems integrators, consultants and third parties effectively
• Manage and lead PMO staff in the planning and execution of the organization’s portfolio of programs and projects to ensure they meet the organizations goals using empirical evidence
• Evaluating employee performance, provide feedback, mentoring, coaching and development and growth opportunities for staff based
• Providing information, feasibility, and recommendations to leadership for informed decision making
• Generate metrics around tracking activities, risks, issues and project financials
• Ensure smooth functioning of the release and prioritization meetings
• Develop and maintain a consolidated view of resource capacity for Product Planning and Engineering teams