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, and overseeing vendor management, contract negotiation, and portfolio planning. The position guides requirements gathering and prioritization, MVP definition, incremental value delivery, and change readiness. It oversees testing strategy, release governance, cutover orchestration, and production stabilization, while ensuring security, privacy, regulatory, and audit controls in partnership with compliance and internal audit. The Senior IT Project Manager owns portfolio strategy, scope, roadmap, and value realization aligned to business OKRs; establishes governance and measurable KPIs; and builds multi-release plans, dependency networks, capacity models, and integrated risk and compliance plans. The role leads cross-functional delivery, financial management, vendor and contract management, executive communications, change management, and portfolio coordination. It may mentor project managers, improve delivery practices, resolve systemic impediments, and implement process and tooling enhancements. Other duties may be assigned.
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
- Own program and project portfolio strategy, scope, roadmap, and value realization aligned to business OKRs.
- Guide requirements gathering and prioritization, MVP definition, incremental value delivery, and change readiness.
- 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.
- 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.
- Manage financials, including 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 required decisions to executives.
- Lead change management and communications strategies to drive adoption and measurable outcomes.
- Mentor project managers, improve delivery practices, and champion continuous improvement as needed.
- Coordinate with portfolio management to sequence investments and manage cross-program dependencies.
- Anticipate and resolve systemic delivery impediments and implement process and tooling enhancements.
- Manage project intake, research, requirements, and assignments.
- Perform other duties.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with bonus opportunities
- Paid time off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 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
