Fusion Sport has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Program Manager to be at the forefront of our Military Software Rollouts. You will be working in a fast-paced environment and have a strong program and project management skill set, with excellent attention to detail.

As the Program Manager, you will utilize your advanced program and project management skills to successfully manage complex software rollouts to Fusion Sport’s large military clients in the United States and Canada. Rollouts require the coordination of multiple subprojects including system configuration, security protocols, software configuration, rollout, and coordinating end-user training and staffing resources.

The project teams will be composed of a mix of Fusion Sport, Client, and 3rd party resources, with the Program Manager being the facilitator to ensure all relevant stakeholders are engaged, and the overall Program Plan is met.

This is a full-time opportunity based in our modern Broomfield Office.

 

About Fusion

Fusion Sport is a global leader in human performance software. Our customers include national sporting federations, Olympic committees, and many of the world’s highest profile sporting teams. Increasingly our platform is used in the performing arts, in the military, and across hundreds of organizations striving to optimize performance outcomes. With a commitment to engineering excellence and a passion for human performance, the Fusion Sport team are recognized globally for their innovation in the sector and for providing the benchmark analytics platform for the world's leading athletes. Venture capital funded, growing rapidly at >50% per year and with offices in Australia, the UK, the NL and the US, we are driven by an uncompromising passion for delivering the best product in the market, and for helping our customers around the world optimize human performance.

 

Role Responsibilities

Program Management

• Create, implement and be the champion of the overall Program plan and the associated Project plans
• Accountable for the development of customer specific project planning artifacts
• Move initiatives forward, find resources, raise concerns to appropriate owners early and resolve open issues that prevent progress; hold the line when the schedule or progress is in jeopardy while maintaining respectful relationships
• Develop and iterate on the Program Management Framework ensuring Fusion Sport is at the forefront of best practice in program management.

 

Project Management & Planning

• Responsible for the planning and communications required to ensure that the customer projects identified are well scoped, prepared and developed. The planning will be initiated pre-contract in collaboration with the commercial organization, and you will own the plan from the contract onwards.
• Ensure planning and documentation is visible and understood by all members of the relevant project and associated teams (e.g. customer stakeholders, developers, Smartabase consulting team)
• Organize and lead meetings related to project planning/development to ensure project timelines, milestones, and objectives are met

 

Project Risk Management

• Responsible for identifying, assessing, and managing risks to the success of the project by immediately developing contingency plans and/or taking remediation action as required

 

Reporting Management

• Ensures quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure whilst managing the change control procedure to ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale, and resource budgets, and are signed off in accordance with the specified project governance.
• Facilitates the creation of Change Management planning and execution, taking into consideration IT deployment, data migration, capability deployment (training and engagement activities), and any organizational activities required to integrate new product and/or technology processes or roles into the ‘business as usual’ environment.

 

Role Requirements

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years' experience managing large scale software rollouts
• Proven track record working on successful, complex, and large-scale programs
• Proven experience with SaaS based software implementations
• Sufficient technical aptitude to communicate with and manage deliverables from a wide range of subject-matter experts including cloud hosting, software development, software configuration, cybersecurity and military security protocols
• Managing & collaborating programs in complex stakeholder environments
• Executive presence and ability to communicate with senior military leadership
• Comprehensive understanding of project management disciplines including initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Previous experience working with project management tools such as JIRA, Smart sheets, Trello, Basecamp, Microsoft Project or Asana.
• Relevant Project and Program management certification

 

Desired

• Experience deploying projects with the U.S. and Canadian Armed Forces
• Government security clearance
• Previous experience working with any Athlete Data Management System
• Previous experience working with a no-code workflow platform
• Interest in Human Performance Optimization and Sport Science

 

Benefits

• Compensation from $100k (USD)
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Retirement Plan with Employer Contributions
• 4 weeks PAID Annual Leave per year
• 2 Weeks PAID Personal Leave per year
• 10 days PAID Public Holidays per year
• Individual Professional Development Budget
• Excellent Work Culture with Monthly Events
• Employee Reward and Recognition Program
• Relocation Allowance for Interstate Applicants

 

Additional Information

• Please submit a brief cover letter outlining “how you meet the role requirements” & your most up-to-date resume for consideration
• A National Police Check will be required to be completed for this role due to our Military clients
• Applications must be legally entitled to work in the USA
• If you would like to discuss this role further, please contact our People and Culture team on careers@fusionsport.com