Zllius Inc. is an IT & engineering high tech consulting company. We are globalized team with high intelligence of most trusted services provided on one platform. We discover client’s ambitious and insights to convert imagination into reality. We believe in the importance of digital world technologies with proving ourselves as to be trustable and most reliable service providers. We resolve the challenges in the online world; we support to own online space in competitive world. Zllius Inc. has an opening for a Program Manager at our main office in Hoffman Estates, IL and resource might need to travel to client location as requested by client within U.S.A.  

Zllius Inc. Management Resources provides interim, staff augmentation and project resources with mid and senior-level expertise in the areas of Information Technology and Engineering.   

Job Description Summary:  

Zllius Inc.  is seeking an ambitious and enthusiastic Program Manager to join a growing team and work passionately selling temporary staffing and consulting services in the Information Technology and Engineering space.  

A strong candidate must demonstrate the ability to create the leads with clients to get the projects and build strong ties with 100% result oriented. The ideal candidate would understand research methodologies commonly utilized and be able to design a research methodology with limited client input.  

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Support and participate in complex initiatives and all activities in a project/program life cycle such as initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing associated with projects/programs. 
• Own and execute core PM processes. Drive individual workstreams. Continually improve the process, and educate PM team and stakeholders on process requirements and enhancements. 
• Drive program risk/assumptions/issues/dependency and change management. Maintain program level risk/issue log. Ensure timely issue identification, escalation of risks, and actionable remediation solutions; proactively review plan content and changes to aid in identification, impact analysis and mitigation of risks and issues. 
• Lead the execution of defined PM processes for program/project. 
• Support dependency identification and management. 
• Develop progress dashboards at executive level based on analysis of plans and risk. 
• Control changes and ensure clarity pertaining to milestones. 
• Subject matter expert on planning and execution timelines. 
• Provide situational updates to PMs to ensure program goals are met.
• Manage critical program documentation including governance charts, charters, RASCI charts, communication plans, and metrics.
• Leverage company PM tools to support effective program delivery; educate PM teams and stakeholders on use of PM tools.
• Ensure compliance with company’s project policies and standards and maintain compliance repositories.
• Support, challenge and drive program-level progress and status reporting process.
• Develop progress dashboards at executive level based on analysis of plans and risk.
• Own and create reporting cadence to align with management reporting and meeting deliverables.
• Review status reports submitted for relevancy, correctness, and provide challenge to content with the submitter to enable quality reporting.
• Analyze documentation, data and metrics provided to identify risk, performance and quality issues and significant variances and trends and develop reports for senior management. 
• Generate metrics as needed (e.g., plans and reporting) reporting to demonstrate progress against objectives. 
• Assist in the documentation of meetings and in the tracking and timely resolution of outcomes and follow-up actions. 
• Increase the value proposition of PM Advisory and Execution engagements: 
• Drive accountability and engagement. 
• Provide transparency by interfacing with different groups outside of PMAE for the gathering and sharing of information. 
• Maintain alignment to the approved engagement strategy. 
• Execute active risk management with complete impact assessments and actionable mitigation plans. Forecast and make risk actionable for our stakeholders. 
• Own data quality and ensures output is in alignment with controls environment. 
• Escalate appropriately, completely and with solution options. 
• Maintain compliance with PM procedures.
• Proactively and appropriately offer 3rd party objectivity and challenge to plans, strategy, timelines, and risk. 
• Ability to prioritize as needed while handling multiple time sensitive projects in a fast-paced environment. 

Experience & Knowledge:

• 2 to 4 years of experience in supporting complex projects through the full project lifecycle, from conception through rollout and ongoing support. 
• 2+ years of experience applying a structured approach (methodology) to the successful management, tracking, planning, monitoring and reporting of concurrent, multiple financial services projects spanning broad geographies and organizations. 
• Professional experience in a large corporation. Prefer experience in a business office or similar capacity. 
• Technical proficiency in MS Project, Word, and PowerPoint required. 
• Must have advanced MS Excel skills, including macros, pivot tables, Vlookup, etc.
• Experience with enterprise program management tools.
• Prefer PMP (or desire to acquire PMP); finance or accounting experience.

Education:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems or Management Information Systems or related field

Work Location & Physical Requirements:

• This position primarily works in an office environment. It requires frequent sitting, standing and walking. Daily use of a computer and other computing and digital devices is required. May stand for extended periods when facilitating meetings or walking in the facilities.
• The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods.