Enterprise Program Manager, Display Software & Services
Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), the U.S. Sales and Marketing subsidiary, is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances, enterprise solutions and networks systems. For more than four decades, Samsung has driven innovation, economic growth and workforce opportunity across the United Statesinvesting over $100 billion and employing more than 20,000 people nationwide. By integrating our large portfolio of products, services and AI technology, we're creating smarter, sustainable and more connected experiences that empower people to live better. SEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. To learn more, visit Samsung.com.
The Enterprise Program Manager, Display Software & Services will be the primary day-to-day point of contact for top strategic customer contracts for large custom scopes of work. This person must have a customer-centric mindset and an ability to organize various resources to create an excellent customer experience. Deployment Management, Project Accounting, Software NOC, and Content teams all have engagement with an enterprise customer in the delivery of a contracted program. The Program Manager will orchestrate program team activities to ensure compliance with contract, in the context of SLA performance, and with the ultimate goal of customer satisfaction.
This role is responsible for driving operational excellence and providing an unparalleled customer experience. Smooth contract execution and this EPM is critical to our success.
Client Relationship Management
- Serve as delivery lead across multiple project engagements within a contracted client program.
- Communicate closely and often with assigned customer account to maintain a comprehensive understanding of day-to-day progress, developments, and challenges.
- Develop an understanding of overall client strategy and how your role contributes to that strategy.
- Facilitate client discussions to drive clarity and resolution (requirement sessions, process reviews).
- Execute business analysis to comprehensively capture client's business priorities and challenges to identify opportunities.
- Document and understand client processes and requirements, identify gaps, and facilitate deliverables.
- Collaborate with the customer on plans to evolve the program, in terms of operational sophistication, or expand the program, in terms of scope.
Stakeholder Engagement & Program Leadership
Host recurring calls with cross-functional stakeholders to review adherence to SLA commitments. Establish and measure accountability with those parties for SLA achievement.Consolidate SLA performance results and customer reporting requirements on a monthly basis.Deliver regular summaries of program performance to internal and external executive audiences.Diagnose process and execution challenges in the program delivery and initiate improvement plans with the appropriate internal parties. Monitor risks associated with those challenges and facilitate resolutions for short-term risk mitigation (fix problems to keep programs moving).Serve as internal escalation point for any challenges that may arise in the deployment or support processes. Direct internal resources accordingly to resolve. Report back to the customer.Facilitate the development of future-state process models to improve program effectiveness.Other Duties & Responsibilities
Participate in developing department goals, objectives, and systems.Identify ways to improve quality, efficiency and productivity through process improvements.This role will work within very tight schedules to identify and engage internal and external stakeholders to assist with time-sensitive execution activities.This role will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders / SME's to quickly and effectively digest complex information and disseminate that information among all key stakeholders.Attend trade shows and on-site visits at client / vendor / subcontractor facilities (25% travel).Other duties as assigned.Skills and Qualifications
Typically requires minimum 5 years' of related experience and a Bachelor's degree, or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience.Supreme soft skills for client relationship management.Collaborative work approach with ability to host productive meetings with cross-functional teams.Excellent and professional written and verbal communication skills.Ability to read, understand and interpret contract documents, drawings, specifications, scopes of work and project schedule.Ability to analyze financial reports, price proposals and other technical data.Physical Requirements :
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.Ability to travel by air and by driving.Ability to access all on-site installation locations in support of sales visits, trade shows and periodic project site visits.