Principal, Project Management

Ingram Micro • Irvine, CA

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About The Position

The Principal, Project Manager is accountable for successfully delivering large, complex, and strategically significant IT projects or programs with limited managerial oversight. The role translates desired business results into an integrated delivery approach, directs cross-functional and third-party teams, resolves advanced delivery issues, and provides decision-ready reporting to sponsors and governance bodies.

The position serves as an internal expert in project delivery, coaching and delegating work to less experienced professionals while influencing project management policies, practices, and procedures. It is an individual-contributor leadership role without direct people-management responsibility, but it requires leadership of matrixed resources, delegation, coaching, and review of deliverables. Work may span business units, technical domains, vendors, and global time zones. Travel and on-site attendance may be required depending on project needs and should be confirmed for the specific assignment.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge of project and program management principles, governance, delivery controls, and lifecycle practices across predictive, agile, and hybrid environments.
• Ability to independently structure and lead large, complex, high-visibility technology initiatives with multiple stakeholders, workstreams, vendors, and dependencies.
• Advanced capability in integrated planning, critical-path and dependency management, risk and issue management, change control, financial management, resource planning, and benefits tracking.
• Strong executive presence, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, decision framing, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence without direct authority, build alignment among competing priorities, and translate technical and business information for varied audiences.
• Working knowledge of IT governance, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, architecture, service transition, procurement, and vendor management considerations.
• Proficiency with enterprise project management, collaboration, reporting, and data analysis tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, engineering, project management, or a related field.
• Minimum eight years of functional experience, including at least five years of position-specific project or program management experience.
• Proven experience leading large, complex IT projects with limited oversight and accountability for integrated scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, and stakeholder outcomes.
• Experience coaching, reviewing, and delegating work to project team members or lower-level professionals.
• Prepare to pass a drug test and successfully pass a pre-employment, post-offer background check.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Project or comparable scheduling tools, and portfolio or work-management platforms.
• Master’s degree in business administration, information systems, technology management, or a related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent recognized project management credential.
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), SAFe, PRINCE2, or ITIL certification relevant to the delivery environment.
• Additional certifications in change management, risk management, cybersecurity, cloud platforms, or vendor management aligned to assigned projects.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale initiatives involving global teams, third parties, organizational changes, security or compliance requirements, and transition to operations.
• Experience developing delivery standards, improving portfolio or project governance, and presenting to senior leaders or steering committees.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of large, complex IT projects or coordinated workstreams from initiation through transition to operations and benefits realization.
• Develop the delivery strategy and integrated plan, including scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget, quality, communications, procurement, and organizational change activities.
• Clarify objectives and success measures with executive sponsors, business owners, technology leaders, and control functions, and maintain alignment as conditions change.
• Establish governance, decision rights, escalation paths, controls, documentation standards, and reporting cadence appropriate to project risk and complexity.
• Lead matrixed teams and vendors across functions, locations, and time zones; delegate work, review deliverables, coach lower-level professionals, and remove delivery barriers.
• Anticipate and resolve advanced, ambiguous, or cross-functional issues; develop options, assess tradeoffs, and present recommendations for timely decisions.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and changes, ensuring owners, response actions, due dates, and escalation criteria are defined and monitored.
• Monitor financial performance, resource capacity, vendor commitments, and forecast accuracy; identify variances and drive corrective action.
• Integrate security, privacy, compliance, architecture, operational readiness, and business continuity requirements into the delivery lifecycle.
• Provide concise, evidence-based status reporting and executive communications on progress, decisions, risks, financials, dependencies, and outcome readiness.
• Improve project management methods, templates, metrics, and lesson-learned practices, and influence adoption of consistent delivery standards across teams.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• 401(k) plan and company match
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits
• Certain roles may be eligible for merit increases, annual bonus or sales incentives, and long-term incentives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal