Minneapolis , MN
|Remote
|Contract
Minneapolis, MN
|Remote
|Contract
Join a high-impact program management opportunity supporting a complex technology activation and decommission effort. This role is ideal for someone who excels at coordinating cross-functional teams, managing dependencies, and driving clear execution across multiple workstreams in a fast-moving environment.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the overall program plan, including milestones, dependencies, activation timelines, and decommission milestones.
- Track cross-team dependencies and help ensure alignment on sequencing, ownership, and delivery expectations.
- Facilitate program discussions to resolve risks, blockers, timeline conflicts, and emerging issues.
- Partner closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to support delivery goals.
- Prepare and maintain program documentation such as status updates, dependency trackers, risk logs, decision logs, and leadership summaries.
- Coordinate across teams to support activation readiness, operational readiness, and decommission readiness.
- Provide visibility into program health, key milestones, risks, decisions, and execution progress.
- Support planning and execution toward full activation and legacy component decommissioning milestones.
- Follow established program management, agile delivery, and documentation practices.
Skills
- Senior-level experience in program management, project management, or technical delivery management for large-scale technology initiatives.
- Strong ability to manage dependencies, timelines, risks, and delivery plans across multiple teams.
- Experience building and driving activation, transition, or decommission plans for complex systems.
- Excellent facilitation skills with the ability to align stakeholders and support decision-making.
- Strong risk management capabilities, including identifying issues early and driving mitigation plans.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create concise status updates and executive-ready documentation.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams at once.
- Ability to influence without authority and keep teams moving toward shared outcomes.
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to help navigate competing priorities and emerging challenges.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with supply chain or merchandising systems.
- Background in mainframe modernization or legacy platform decommissioning programs.
- Experience working in agile delivery environments with engineering and product teams.
- Comfort collaborating with a broad range of technical and business stakeholders.
Horizontal is committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and every team member has the opportunity to contribute and succeed. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and bring their unique experiences to the role.
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