Senior IT Project Manager
About The Position
The Senior IT Project Manager oversees large, impactful IT programs and multiple projects, managing project intake, research, requirements, and assignments. The role translates business needs into technical requirements and ensures delivery outcomes, benefits realization, financial stewardship, governance, and executive stakeholder alignment. It also includes coaching other project managers, improving PMO practices, vendor management, contract negotiation, and portfolio planning. The position leads cross-functional delivery across product, engineering, data, security, enterprise architecture, and operations. It manages program and project strategy, scope, roadmaps, budgets, risks, compliance, change, release, and stakeholder communications to deliver measurable business value. Travel is required at less than 10%.
Requirements
- 5–7 years leading complex IT programs or projects in enterprise environments.
- Proven delivery of large-scale initiatives, such as ERP/CRM transformations, cloud migrations, data platforms, enterprise security, or M&A integrations.
- Demonstrated leadership of matrixed teams and third parties across multiple business units and geographies.
Responsibilities
- Guide requirements gathering and prioritization, MVP definition, incremental value delivery, and change readiness.
- Oversee testing strategy, release governance, cutover orchestration, and production stabilization.
- Ensure adherence to security, privacy, regulatory, and audit controls in partnership with compliance and internal audit.
- Own program and project portfolio strategy, scope, roadmap, and value realization aligned to business OKRs.
- Establish governance, including steering committees, decision frameworks, escalation paths, and measurable KPIs.
- Build multi-release plans, dependency networks, capacity models, and integrated risk and compliance plans across teams.
- Lead cross-functional delivery spanning product, engineering, data, security, enterprise architecture, and operations.
- Manage business cases, multi-year budgets, benefits tracking, EAC/ETC, and variance recovery.
- Direct contract and vendor management, including RFPs, SOWs, SLAs, negotiation, and performance management.
- Communicate options analysis, trade-offs, risks, and decisions required to executives.
- Lead change management and communications strategies to drive adoption and measurable outcomes.
- Mentor project managers, improve delivery practices, and champion continuous improvement.
- Work with portfolio management to sequence investments and manage cross-program dependencies.
- Anticipate and resolve systemic delivery impediments and implement process and tooling enhancements.
- Perform other duties.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with bonus opportunities
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits with low premiums
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
- 14 paid company holidays
- 401(k) with company contribution
- Educational tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
