Senior IT Project Manager (Remote)
About The Position
The Senior Project Manager leads the planning and execution of projects and/or financial and budgeting activities for their teams. For project delivery, the role leads scoping, structuring, and coordination across multiple stakeholders and is accountable for the success of one or more projects within established timelines and budgets. Responsibilities include maintaining status reports, proactively managing issues and risks, and coordinating with third-party partners. The role may also support coordination and execution across multiple areas. For financial and budgeting work, the Senior Project Manager monitors and adjusts budgets, tracks labor and capital spend, and supports variance root-cause analysis. The position focuses primarily on delivery and execution, including planning, prioritization, project coordination, risk and dependency management, stakeholder communication, and change management across Technology portfolios and cross-functional initiatives. It also leads fiscal management and reporting, including labor, capital, non-labor forecasting, and vendor-related processes.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of work experience.
- At least 5 years working in a marketing/advertising program management role and experience managing cross-functional software development initiatives.
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a field of study related to the job, or the knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completion of such a program.
- Demonstrated project management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to draw accurate conclusions from financial documentation.
- Ability to explain complex or technical ideas and processes clearly to diverse audiences.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- At least 5 years working in marketing, advertising, or retail media program management.
- Experience with Customer Data Platform (CDP) implementations.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
- Working knowledge of Tableau.
- Working knowledge of presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint.
Responsibilities
- Understand organizational and initiative goals and success criteria, and apply them to project work.
- Identify barriers to successful outcomes and partner with leadership teams to address them.
- Apply Agile, Waterfall, and other delivery methodologies, blending approaches as appropriate for efficient delivery.
- Support and execute quarterly planning and prioritization; apply lessons learned to future initiatives.
- Lead project planning with stakeholders, including scoping, defining deliverables, creating work breakdown structures, and setting milestones across projects or programs.
- Communicate project information to business and technical audiences at different organizational levels, including senior leadership.
- Create, monitor, track, and adjust project plans based on critical milestones across projects, initiatives, or programs.
- Align dependencies with stakeholders, identify and track compliance requirements, and proactively manage risks and issues through mitigation plans.
- Develop and execute change-management and project-communication plans for Technology project teams and stakeholders.
- Execute across portfolios and cross-functional initiatives within the Technology organization.
- Lead fiscal management and reporting for operational, product/business, technology, and vendor stakeholders, including gross labor, capital spend, non-labor forecasting, tracking, reporting, and variance analysis.
- Participate in vendor selection and onboarding in accordance with company policy.
- Support purchase-order and invoicing processes for third-party vendors.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
