Senior Program Manager

• Lead cross-functional and regionally distributed teams through JCI’s stage-gate development process.
• Initiate, plan, and execute programs to deliver benefits according to established targets for budget, quality, performance, and time to market.
• Lead teams through scope discovery and decomposition to develop detailed execution and resource plans.
• Manage and optimize the collaboration of core, extended and support team members, contractors, or consultants to ensure programs are delivered as planned.
• Coach, mentor, and motivate project team members to take positive action and accountability for assigned work.
• Create and deliver progress reports, presentations and project status updates via project scoreboards/dashboards, management reviews, and project team meetings.
• Proactively identify and resolve significant risks and issues within the project team.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path(s).
• Collaborate with other program managers, functional managers, and executive leadership to accomplish program objectives.
• Leverage best practices to improve project execution and management.

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering or related field with 5 years of experience in project management and/or leading technical teams/projects in a functional management role
• Experience creating and managing a schedule, assigning project tasks, facilitating project meetings and formulating resource plans.
• Experience overseeing onsite and online/remote project teams across different functions.
• Practical experience with project management planning tools (such as Microsoft Project) and the Microsoft O365 software suite.
• Familiarity with stage-gate development

• 2 or more years of direct experience leading projects through stage-gate product development
• Knowledge or direct experience within the HVAC industry
• Experience using collaboration platforms (e.g. Microsoft Teams) and work management platforms (e.g. Daptiv, Planview, Smartsheet, Wrike)

Johnson Controls