Program Manager

Here at Mindera, we are continuously developing a fantastic team, and would love it for you to join us.

We are looking for a Program Manager to join our team and help us manage complex projects from ideation through to delivery. This person will be responsible for developing and owning project plans, ensuring resource availability and allocation, managing changes to project scope, plan and costs, and measuring project performance. They will work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver quality outcomes in line with the plan.

**What you will be doing**:

- Develop and own project plans including significant milestones and deliverables ensuring resource availability and allocation.
- Provide governance across the portfolio on all squad deliverables both project and non-project based.
- Effectively plan and manage complex projects from ideation through to delivery.
- Communicate portfolio status, milestones, and deliverables to project stakeholders, distilling complexity into simple and concise updates.
- Manage changes to the project scope, project plan, and project costs using the appropriate project management approach.
- Measure project performance and take actions when deviations are identified during the project; reporting and escalating as needed.
- Actively manage risks through a transparent communication style and a promotion of trust and competency.
- Manage multiple projects concurrently.
- Partner with cross-functional teams within P&T and the wider business to contribute to projects and deliver quality outcomes in line with the plan.
- Support and contribute to the project intake process from ideation through to planning and delivery.
- Foster collaborative relationships with your colleagues.
- Identify inefficiencies in the intake and project management processes and make and implement recommendations for changes.
- Maintain the internal project management tool.

**Requirements**:

- 5+ years of program management experience is essential.
- Strong project management skills required with project management qualification preferred.
- Self-starter, intellectually curious, and creative with experience operating in ambiguity.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to communicate and influence at multiple levels within an organisation, build trust and strong relationships with key stakeholders and their teams.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff.
- Proven organisational skills, with attention to detail and multitasking skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

**Benefits**

**The Things We Really Care About**:

- Health Insurance, because health comes first
- Flexible working hours
- Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
- Profit distribution for everyone
- Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun
- Training & conferences, create your own training plan
- Child Care vouchers

**Other Good Things**:

- Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
- Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
- We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote is also an option.
- At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
- Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

**About Mindera**:
At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.

We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.

You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.

Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.

We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil