House of Code is a subsidiary company of one of the world's largest digital real estate tech companies AVIV. As an experienced and creative software development service provider, we are exclusively participating in projects within the AVIV group. The group is a part of Axel Springer SE, the largest European digital publishing house based in Germany, with numerous multimedia news brands (such as Bild, Die Welt, Business Insider) and more than 15,000 employees. Find more about us on: https://houseofcode.tech/.u should read on and see if this position could be something for you.
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We are looking for a Business Program Manager to support Aviv’s goal to become the leading digital platform to unlock everyone’s perfect place. In this role, you will be supporting in driving the commercial roadmap.
JOB DESCRIPTION
As the organization is transforming while delivering, to be successful, you need to be flexible and have the ability to steer through many challenges, invent, analyze and above all resolve problems that you will face. You are very familiar with portfolio management, commercial and product roadmaps and feel 100% comfortable in working in Jira while at the same time, you can be a consultant to teams and can engage with leadership on the best way forward. You don’t shy away from being critical or challenging the existing. You are a leader that knows how to deliver and is able to get support at all levels.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- You report into the Senior Director Program Transformation, the Business Program Manager will be responsible for coordinating the alignment of commercial products with product management that drives the Aviv transformation forward.
- The transformation is complex and far reaching so you will be expected to manage program & project management responsibilities depending on the circumstances.
- You help the product and tech leadership focus on delivery value to the business by removing obstacles and accelerating value creation.
- You help product and technology leaders manage, through metrics and business data, to steer product direction.
- You drive transparency by communicating progress, decisions, policy and process by leading briefings, presenting and documenting
- You work closely with the product and commercial leaders, and help and create visibility through best practices.
- While driving your project and or program, you identify challenges in Aviv’s way of working and actively drive improvements of process and data.
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Provide mentoring and support to colleagues who lack program or project management experience.
WHO YOU ARE:
- You have significant experience of business program / project management with a track record of delivering medium to high complexity digital business programs and projects. Preferably in the (property) marketplaces and/or classifieds business.
- You draw upon your past immersion of working in a digital consultancy environment and focus on delivering maturing business requests to products and features . This includes helping establishing, maturing and refining business cases, creating and maintaining commercial and product roadmaps and (re)presenting them in executive updates.
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You have excellent communication skills, you should be able to lead big groups meetings steering and ensure moving into the right direction and to present status to top management and big groups .
- You understand business requirements, are able to break down the bigger task in manageable parts and sequence to deliver the planned value.
- You proactively engage with stakeholders to understand the gaps in communication and information and actively drive to close this.
- You are data driven both from process and content.
- You apply high quality project management standards and make them evolve.
- You are cultural sensitive.
- You are comfortable working in a tech driven environment.
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You are preferably a comfortable with JIRA/Confluence, and practice portfolio thinking.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:
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Project duration: 9+ months.
- Great colleagues who are experts in their field are always at your side with advice and action.
- International work environment.
