Program Manager

Program Manager role at Solera Holdings, LLC.

Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience. In addition, we provide products and services to protect life's other most important assets: our homes and digital identities. Today, Solera processes over 300 million digital transactions annually for approximately 235,000 partners and customers in more than 90 countries. Our 6,500 team members foster an uncommon, innovative culture and are dedicated to successfully bringing the future to bear today through cognitive answers, insights, algorithms, and automation. For more information, please visit solera.com.

Program Manager (Global Business Solutions) – Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

We are looking for a virtual Program Manager to drive companywide high‑visibility and high‑priority software development and IT projects. This critical hire must have exceptional communication and organization skills, be highly collaborative, and have a deep understanding of independent and interdependent IT organizational structures, tools, and teams. With an emphasis on discovery and soft skills, this individual will work with leadership and teams across the globe to create meaningful and positive change. Pragmatic, innovative, data‑driven, detail‑oriented, and self‑motivated are skills crucial to the success of this role, as well as the ability to leverage and implement Project management tools, processes, and KPIs to increase visibility, create stability, and ensure success.

• Act as the Project Manager, working directly with Product, Development, and IT leadership to kick off, oversee, and manage key projects, define the scope, identify resources, set goals, develop schedules, and track and report progress while ensuring the overall approach is refined and can be leveraged by junior Project and Program Managers.
• Drive implementation of multiple, complex project management initiatives, working closely with cross‑functional teams and resources to achieve milestones within established timeframes.
• Communicate with project stakeholders, executive and senior management, and provide reporting insights on issues through root‑cause analyses.
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Coaching, mentoring, йөов wcting, and supervising Project team members and contractors and influencing them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) or equivalent work experience.
• 7‑10 years of project or project‑management experience.
• 7+ years of experience creating and driving large‑scale technology and data‑driven project‑management transformation plans.
• Advanced knowledge of business applications such as Microsoft Word.
• Highly effective in Microsoft Excel, Project, Teams, etc.

• Effective communication: proactively, efficiently, and persuasively presenting ideas to all organization levels. Excellent verbal and written communication (English).
• Exceptional delivery: demonstrated expertise in release management as a high‑value deliverer, including release scope alignment, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, planning, milestones, and driving projects using documented processes.
• Process improvement: iteratively improving existing or developing new artifacts and processes across programs and the PMO to increase efficiency, alignment, control, and documentation.
• Risk management: work with stakeholders to identify potential problems; create mitigation planstexte; minimize risk to project timelines.
• Facilitating solutions: discerning objective information to address issues, documenting impact, and cooperating in the PMO escalation process, and jointly problem‑solving to achieve objectives.
• Be reliable: follow through on expected deliverables and maintain clear communication.
• Detail oriented: careful accounting for critical details, asking follow‑up questions, and seeking clarity.
• Training competency: mentoring peers, documenting processes, troubleshooting, and providing constructive feedback.

• Creating accountability: utilizing the PMO framework and Solera processes, and driving action plans for measurable visibility.
• Adding value: facilitating alignment, contributing to process improvement, and delivering measurable contributions to organization performance.
• Building relationships: fostering a positive culture and collaborations across levels.
• Leading with humility: accountability, dependability, transparency, confidence, balanced with valuing others’ experience, perspective, intelligence, diversity.
• Apply emotional intelligence: deal with stressful situations, find solutions within PMO framework and Solera processes, adapt as needed.
• Speed of work: working quickly, prioritizing communications, documenting team alignment in real time.
• Context and حلول Switching: quickly switching context while maintaining alignment with PMO frameworkκής, pivoting priorities when needed.
• Coachable: openness to feedback and collaborative learning.
• High initiative: seeking new challenges, motivating, proactively driving progress, meeting and pulling delivery dates.

It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require; job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. The above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to, or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Project Management and Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting