Program Manager at Rainforest Alliance

Position Summary:

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Look no further! Rainforest Alliance is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Program Manager to join our exceptional team. As a Program Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading all aspects of and managing our IT projects, ensuring their successful implementation and delivery.

As a world-class organization committed to sustainability and environmental conservation, Rainforest Alliance offers a unique opportunity for individuals who are passionate about making a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Successfully manage and lead all aspects of a portfolio of IT data projects and programs, ensuring flawless execution and timely delivery
• Accountable for relevant initiative level planning and alignment, data-based forecasting, reporting, identifying and resolving program level risks and blockers
• Support IT and data program roadmap development, tracking delivery across initiatives, dependencies across the extended organization and maintaining consistency of approach and a clear governance framework
• Coordinating testing and program quality assurance of the developed product and release to customers, e.g. readiness decisions and post release retro / lessons learnt discussions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine project scope, objectives, and deliverables
• Acting as a trusted advisor to the Product, Technology & Domain Leads collaborating with them to deliver business and customer value

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Proven track record of at least 8 years in in leading IT programs and program management
• At least 3 years of management experience in an international IT environment.
• Demonstrated experience in IT strategic program development and implementation.
• Strong experience with both commercial make and buy software development (SLDC), and offshore supplier management; using Agile methodologies such as SAFe
• Knowledge of emerging technology trends such as LLM / AI, and their practical implementation are a major plus
• A solid background in data orientated program delivery, data lake warehouse formation a major plus
• Strong project and program management skills with an emphasis on delivering a portfolio of diverse date, software and technology vendors programs, professional certifications such as PMP expected
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experienced people manager with a proven ability to coach, supervise and motivatestaff, ideally through continuous transformation
• Familiarity with environmental and sustainability issues is a plus.