Director, Commercial Programs

Job Description

The Director, Commercial Programs will be responsible for managing the success of mission critical cross-functional commercial initiatives. You will work with all levels of the organization to manage multiple high-visibility, growth-oriented commercial programs, ensuring that all departments are aligned, communicating effectively and programs are delivered on time and successfully.

With a focus on inter-departmental workings, you will play a key role in working with functional program leads to maintain a deep understanding of all activities, review and integrate a rollup of plans, and serve as the company-wide knowledge courier - highlighting, integrating and tracking interdependencies, ultimately providing the the team with a timely and accurate view of objectives, timelines, and status across the ML program. The successful candidate will ensure streamlined activities and effective communication based on clear prioritization, playing a key role in ensuring commercial success.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing company visibility and program integration to critical strategic commercial initiatives
• Responsible for working with all functional program leads to integrate programs creating clear program plans and milestone maps - highlighting redundancies, gaps, and potential cross-functional problems/risks. You will serve as an impartial check & balance.
• Works to collect, consolidate, organize and distribute project information, high level reporting, metrics, and dashboards throughout the organization in collaboration with the business unit program leads.
• Provides critical program and project views to the team so that timeline, functional, and objective based alignment and communication is enabled.
• Define proper governance cadence to track end to end business activities & management reports.
• Define program KPIs
• Does not manage a functional department, but works to assure program objectives, and company objectives are achieved between all functional departments and program/project teams
• Work closely with analytics to review data and statistics to identify opportunities, get ahead of potential problems, develop action plans, and implement process improvements.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience with PMO, program management and/or consulting
• Cross-functional experience working with commercial, technical and product teams
• Experience launching products is a plus
• Ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments
• Ability to operate at all levels of the organization
• Excellent problem solving ability, analytical skills, and attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to explain complex subject matter in simple but accurate terms
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate succinctly and effectively across all levels of the organization
• Experience with software development and PM tools
• Exceptional time management skills and the ability to balance multiple projects and competing priorities
• Ability to work under pressure with aggressive deadlines
• Knowledge of the AR/VR/MR field a plus

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited University in a related field
• Master's Degree preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) a plus

Additional Information

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