Program Manager - HR

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Position Overview

The Program Manager successfully delivers solutions to support the organization’s vision and strategic direction. This role manages and leads large, high risk, high visibility, and critical projects across the organization. These projects are often highly complex and impact many users. This position ensures successful integration and communication between multiple projects. This is a hands-on role that requires close collaboration with all levels of Exact Sciences.

This role will support the HR organization.

Essential Duties

include but are not limited to the following:

• Lead and coach multiple efforts and teams to deliver work successfully.
• Apply project management methodologies and best practices.
• Work with business stakeholders to define strategy and requirements in order to define and execute a collection of projects across the business.
• Develop schedules, budgets, risk management plans, quality goals, and lead the team to success.
• Maintain detailed program metrics around initiative goals and communicate progress to key stakeholders.
• Facilitate daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospective.
• Guide team in time-estimating practices (story pointing) and facilitate team estimates.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to Scrum team members and Scrum teams outside core HCM.
• Lead team effort in improvements; define action items to increase the velocity and quality of the program.
• Drive positive change management via planning, communications, and relationship management.
• Make critical decisions based upon a combination of data analysis, experience, and judgement.
• Formulate, organize, and monitor inter-connected projects to include coordination of cross-project activities.
• Develop and mentor program and project team members.
• Listen, influence, negotiate, and mitigate conflict while building relationships achieving desired results.
• Partner with multiple internal cross-functional teams and successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Ability to work designated schedule.
• Ability to lift up to 10 pounds for approximately 5% of a typical working day.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
• Ability to comply with any applicable personal protective equipment requirements.
• Ability and means to travel between local Exact Sciences locations.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years project management experience with increasing responsibility of scope and leadership.
• 5+ years managing and leading large impact, large budget, high risk, client facing, and critical projects.
• 5+ years using Project Management software.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the Essential Duties of the position with or without accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree.
• PMI certification.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification.
• Experience working on HR projects and programs.
• Experience working on total rewards projects and programs.

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Salary Range:

$109,000.00 - $174,000.00The annual base salary shown is for this position located in US - WI - Madison on a full-time basis. In addition, this position is bonus eligible, and is eligible to receive company stock upon hire as well as annually.

Exact Sciences is proud to offer an employee experience that includes paid time off (including days for vacation, holidays, volunteering, and personal time), paid leave for parents and caregivers, a retirement savings plan, wellness support, and health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage. Learn more about our benefits.

Our success relies on the experiences and perspectives of a diverse team, and Exact Sciences fosters a culture where all employees can develop personally and professionally with a sense of respect and belonging. If you require an accommodation, please contact us neo@exactsciences.com.

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