Staff, Technical Program Manager
- Walmart
- 12 - 17 years
- Bengaluru
- 1 month ago
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Job Description
Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events. Benefits
Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.
A Program Manager in FinOps will have accountability to one or more pillars. You will be responsible for helping GTP assess growth and investment opportunities in Cloud, driving the organization towards EDLC in technology, developing and managing and approach unit cost economic, and connecting costs to business values and goals. This leader will drive cultural change to remove blockers; empower engineering teams to deliver better features, apps, and migrations faster; and enable a cross-functional conversation about where to invest and when . These responsibilities will center on driving the FinOps governance model centrally. Intake and Tradeoffs to drive prioritization are the initial introduction into the role and set the foundation for future accountability and success.
What you'll do:
As a Program Manager, you will be responsible for :
Drive proactive and constant alignment across all stakeholders towards the program goal.
Coordinate with stakeholders and product team members to design and deliver financial management and reporting features to drive FinOps governance.
Relationship Management techniques
LRP & AOP for the Pillar - aligning to overall Go-Forward Strategy from Product Portfolio.
Stakeholder management strategy
Enable accountability of prioritization of product Investment
Collaborate to balance multiple priorities including unexpected projects that surface
Developing a comprehensive FinOps governance process aimed at optimizing decision making at scale. You will be working across pillars to establish a we'll-defined process to identify opportunities for greater investment and greater efficiency.
Collaborating with a Tech Strategy (Core FinOps) team to facilitate a cultural shift toward a more wholistic view of cloud spend in the context of unit cost and business metrics.
Collaborating with GTP leaders and partners in the Tech Strategy (FinOps) team to establish best practices for Cloud FinOps in several FinOps Domains like Charge back/show back
Developing a comprehensive FinOps governance process aimed at optimizing decision making at scale. You will be working across pillars to establish a we'll-defined process to identify opportunities for greater investment and greater efficiency.
Ongoing accountability includes collaboration across the portfolio and requires consistent review cadences with trusted data points.
Partner with the Data team to build a FinOps Scorecard, validation and reporting.
Data-driven and fact-based decision-making techniques/methodologies
Manage communication and analytics around P&L for the Portfolio - CapEx, OpEx, Labor, etc.
Resource alignment recommendations and utilization guidance
Qualitative and quantitative data management (for example, feedback, facts, analysis)
Track progress through setting up the right cadences and report progress against OKRs to teams, cross functional stakeholders, and Walmart leadership.
Provide accomplishments and key portfolio metrics for Leadership forums like All Hands, MBRs, Pillar reviews
Define strategic plans for platforms Cloud FinOps goals including attribution via chargeback or showback, efficiencies, forecasting, and unit costing
Align with product, engineering, strategy, and finance stakeholders on broad range of FinOps strategies and plans
Execute plans using program management techniques to advance FinOps cloud cost goals driving Product TCO
Deliverables:
Ongoing communication and assessment of the portfolio is critical to realizing strategic goals. The below deliverables will support the responsibilities listed above:
Intake assessments and insights
Pillar - Product/ Dev Manager owner sync up
Planning deliverables
Pillars reporting and Scorecard
Prioritization model (including leadership alignment and understanding)
Establish standard reporting template
Monthly wins & accomplishment for Pillars
Pillar Financial governance
Prepare MBR and Deep Dive
Communication Strategy and plans
Chargeback/Showback strategy and execution plans
Efficiency tracking process alignment, structure, and cadence
Forecasting and Anomaly visibility
Articulate business value and/or technical volume vs spend
What you'll bring:
Proficiency in technical and soft skills are required for success in this role. Emphasis on core competencies allows faster alignment and portfolio negotiations to occur. It also establishes a foundation to build trust and accelerate alignment.
Guide resource management decisions as part of prioritization and tradeoff discussions
Program Management
Financial Management
Knowledgeable about contract renewal processes and timelines
System (people, process, technology, places) design & optimization
Competencies:
Communication/Influence
Planning
Adaptability
Teamwork
Judgement
Customer Centered
Forecasting recommendations
You ll really wow us if
You bring strategic thinking to everyday Portfolio problems and back recommendations with accurate data.
Your ability to rise above group think and see beyond the here and now is matched only by your intellectual curiosity.
You consider yourself to be a student of the world who thrives in an ever-changing environment that holds within its new challenges and chances to prove your expertise.
You seek out and champion opportunities to improve processes rather than just be added to a project to ensure it is efficiently run.
Knowledge about the GTP Product Portfolio
Minimum Qualifications
Successfully been a Project or Program Manager for several large scale efforts
Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
Certification as a FinOps Practitioner and an understanding of FinOps Personas and how these relate to FinOps Domains and Capabilities.
Knowledge of agile methodologies alongside some experience using tools like Confluence, JIRA, and experience writing project plans
Experience communicating with senior executives in both Finance and Informational Technology on topics related to Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), FinOps, and Cloud.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Comfortable presenting to and persuading at the Director and Vice-Presidential level.
Bachelor s degree in engineering, Management, Business or related field; experience may be substituted for degree + Minimum of 5+ experience in project management or change management
Preferred Qualifications
Experience successfully implementing a Continuous Improvement program
Lean Six Sigma certification
Quantitative or engineering background
Minimum Qualifications...
Job Classification
Industry: RetailFunctional Area / Department: Strategic & Top Management
Role Category: Top Management
Role: MD / CEO
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: WalmartLocation(s): Bengaluru
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Keyskills: Product management Change management Costing Data management Networking Project management Analytical Consulting Forecasting Analytics
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