Program Director - Government Relations

Job Summary:

Provides overall leadership, management, and strategic direction of the program management activities across multiple functional areas.

Key Responsibilities:

Drives the establishment of objectives, plans, standards, risk identification, and policies ensuring successful implementation of all phases of program management; Partners with business executives to identify short and long-term projects plans; develops and maintains strong relationships across the organization. Drives the establishment of objectives, plans, standards, risk identification, and policies ensuring successful implementation of all phases of program management; determines project timelines; oversees analysis, program design, budget, communication, and integration; approves business workflow and program design. Directs the assessment of Project Manager capabilities and available program budgets. Keeps business leadership apprised of program status and developments; monitors project success measures and understands the status of specific projects and assignments. Formulates annual operational and financial budgets as they relate to unit objectives. Develops, leads, and motivates project management staff; sets goals in training and development, performance, and career planning.

Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.

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Competencies:
Financial acumen - Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.

Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Builds effective teams - Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.

Business insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals.

Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Directs work - Providing direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.

Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.

Change Management - Applies the Cummins structured process and tool set for engaging individuals and organizations through change to achieve and sustain business results and outcomes.

Project Management - Establishes and maintains the balance of scope, schedule and resources for a temporary effort (a "project"). Ensures results/impact from temporary effort are fully realized as possible.

Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:
College, university, or equivalent degree required. Green Belt certification required.

Experience:
Significant experience, including managerial and budgetary experience, required.
Broad business knowledge required.