Program & Project Delivery Manager I

City : Shanghai State : Shanghai (CN-SH) Country : China (CN) Requisition Number : 45943

1. Role Purpose / Overview

• Ensure effective planning, execution, and delivery of programs/projects across the region.
• Oversee the regional project portfolio, ensuring alignment with business strategy and delivery partner priorities.
• Coordinate resource planning, capacity forecasting, and allocation across project teams.
• Drive delivery excellence, ensuring quality of deliverables, methodology adoption, and process consistency.
• Act as a key enabler supporting the Delivery Partner in regional execution governance.

2. Core Responsibilities

A. Program & Project Delivery

• Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of regional projects following global BT standards.
• Establish and maintain delivery plans, schedules, dependencies, and milestones.
• Ensure risk, issue, and change management processes are applied consistently.
• Provide project managers with guidance on methodologies (PMI/Agile).
• Maintain transparent and accurate reporting for project progress, schedule adherence, and budget utilization
• Lead and facilitate key project-related events and workshops to drive collaboration, decision-making, and alignment

B. Portfolio Management

• Maintain the regional project portfolio, enabling prioritization and capacity alignment.
• Support budget planning, project estimation, and actuals tracking.
• Deliver consolidated portfolio reporting (status, KPIs, risks, escalations).

C. Resource & Capacity Management

• Maintain a regional resource plan, ensuring availability and skill alignment.
• Coordinate between functional towers, BT partners, and delivery teams.
• Provide headcount and capacity insights to support demand planning.

D. Delivery Quality Assurance

• Ensure quality gates, testing processes, and readiness assessments are executed.
• Conduct post‑implementation reviews and manage lessons learned.
• Promote continuous improvement across delivery practices.

E. Stakeholder & Governance Support

• Engage with the Delivery Partner and senior business stakeholders.
• Support governance forums (steerco, portfolio reviews).
• Provide transparency, structured information, and proactive recommendations.

3. Required Competencies

Technical & Process

• Strong knowledge of project/program management frameworks.
• Experience with portfolio management tooling and governance.
• Familiarity with resource planning, capacity management, and forecasting.
• Understanding of ERP or large-scale business system implementations (SAP/ERP preferable).

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Analytical mindset, strong problem-solving.
• Skilled in senior stakeholder communication and negotiation.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, resilient and result oriented

4. Experience & Education Requirements

• Typically10+ years’ experience in project/program management.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-country or multi-team delivery.
• Demonstrated experience or strong understanding of agriculture commodities trading & processing industry is a plus.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in a relevant field (IT, Business, Engineering).
• Certifications desirable: PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum Master.

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