Hiring: Sr IT Program Manager Company: Weyerhaeuser Location: Seattle, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 10:38:13 Employment Type: Full-time / Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Agile, Azure DevOps, Change Management, Machine Learning, Program Management, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, SAFe, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive, relevant experience in an IT Program Manager role is required. Deep experience managing moderately complex IT projects from beginning to end, meeting budget, scope, schedule, and benefits targets. •Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to influence and motivate cross-functional teams is required. •Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels is required. Required Skills: •Team Leadership: Provide leadership and guidance to a team of project managers reporting to you. Ensure effective communication, collaboration, and professional development. Foster collaboration and support professional development opportunities. •Project Team Management: Assemble and lead a project team, assigning roles and responsibilities to team members. Provide direction, guidance, support, and motivation to ensure effective teamwork and project collaboration. •Program/Project Governance: Establish program/project governance structures, processes, and frameworks to ensure effective decision-making, risk management, and reporting, including regular progress reporting, milestone tracking, and program status updates. Define roles and responsibilities for program governance committees and project teams. •Resource Management: Allocate and manage resources across projects within the program. Optimize resource utilization, address conflicts, and monitor resource availability to ensure project success. Collaborate with Resource Managers to secure resources for your project. •Budget Management: Establish project budget, track project spending and reforecast spending regularly throughout project lifecycle. •Risk and Issue Management: Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues across the program. Develop mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and escalation procedures to minimize potential disruptions and address challenges. Maintain RAID log. •Monitoring and Control: Implement processes to monitor and control project progress, milestones, scope, schedule, budget, and deliverables. Regularly assess project and program performance, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and provide status reports to stakeholders. •Change Control: Manage changes within the program, including changes in scope, requirements, or timelines. Evaluate change requests, assess their impact on the program, document change decisions, and communicate changes effectively to stakeholders. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience noted below •Proficient at leading large to enterprise-wide highly complex projects. •Expert in all aspects of project management including accountability for business case development, end-to-end financial and cost analysis, risk management, and organizational change management. •Proficient ability to manage programs involving multiple projects including resource management, generating program-level metrics, program portfolio governance and prioritization. •PMP (Project Management Professional) or PgMP (Program Management Professional) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)is highly desirable. •SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) certification is highly desirable. •In-depth knowledge and hands on experience with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, hybrid), as well as relevant industry standards, best practices. •Proven ability to plan and execute the work in agile sprints while providing full transparency into the progress to complete the agreed upon project scope in alignment with project level milestones and deliverables is required. •Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, systems development life cycle (SDLC), and enterprise software implementations is required. •Proficient in managing, training and guiding direct reports in project management and/or various analysis techniques and methods. Compensation: •$144,700 - $217,100 / year •Also be eligible for our Annual Incentive Program, which offers a cash bonus targeting 25% of base pay Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!