Program Manager - Engineering Vendor Program Office

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The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm.

Team Overview and Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

The Engineering Vendor Program Office (EVPO) performs a governance function managing operational efficiency and aligns engineering to the firm’s OneGS strategy. It is a mechanism to eliminate duplication across organization, avoid cost, facilitate selection of best solution and optimize the process of building consensus. EVPOs core capability is to review and approve product selection, drive process improvement initiatives for vendor engagement, monitor demand for engineering capabilities and build traceability into decisions. The key stakeholders who benefit from EVPOs service offerings are (i) engineers and product owners who implement functionalities offered by external Technology companies, (ii) sales relationship owners (primarily concentrated in IBD, AMD and PWM), (iii) senior leaders (Engineering and EO) who meet with Technology companies, (iv) functions related to vendor lifecycle, specifically technology risk, third party risk, strategic sourcing, (v) compliance and (vi) technology companies and venture capital portfolio companies who wish to engage with the firm.

As an EVPO team member you will help facilitate and accelerate product selection across the firm. This will allow Engineering and Markets Teams to evaluate solutions under structured guidelines providing greater transparency into decision making by Engineering leadership team.

Required Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related technical discipline
• Must have 3-5 years of experience with:
  • Sales, banking or engineering experience. Strong analytical and problem solving skills, pays attention to detail and demonstrates appropriate financial/analytical skills.
  • Project/program, relationship, or account management experience
  • Facilitating conflict resolution and building consensus within a geographically distributed teams.
  • Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders within the context of a software development project and program.
  • Planning and helping manage risks, issues, and program deliveries.
• Prior experience in technical program management, or similar technical project role is a plus
• Experience and understanding of broad set of third party software and hardware technology
• Experience in technology product especially AI solutions, is a plus

Other qualifications

• Experience with hands-on technical product management, large scale technical project management, and/ or software development
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills with a demonstrated understanding of program management processes, artifacts and tools
• Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally
• Functional knowledge of business management capabilities (OKRs, program management, vendor management, financial planning and analysis)
• Experience in major product/vendor management applications (i.e., Jira, Confluence)
• Strong knowledge and experience working third-party vendor technology.
• Experience exploring and leveraging technology research tools and companies (e.g. Gartner, Forrester)
• Proven experience in process improvement projects and tools.
• Innovative and flexible in coming up with suggestions and ideas
• Strong sense of detail and urgency, with the ability to motivate others to deliver
• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
• Understanding of software development lifecycle best practices
• Ability (and tenacity) to clearly express ideas and arguments in Executive and Vendor meetings and on paper (i.e., great written and verbal communications skills)
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
• Must work well in a global team, multi-tasking environment and under pressure
• Adaptability and being comfortable with uncertainty
• Experience with technology vendor sourcing/researching process will be a plus.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs

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Opportunity Overview CORPORATE TITLE Associate OFFICE LOCATION(S) Toronto JOB FUNCTION Procurement / Purchasing DIVISION Corporate Planning & Management SALARY RANGE USD 118,000 - 140,000