Senior Manager, Project Delivery

Republic Airways • Carmel, IN

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Project Delivery, will lead and develop a high-performing team of Project Managers, Scrum Masters and Business Analysts. This role is crucial in driving continuous improvement across our project delivery practices, ensuring consistency and excellence in delivery across a diverse portfolio utilizing Agile, hybrid and traditional methodologies. The ideal candidate is a servant-leader with a strong background across Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies, and a passion for evolving organizational agility. This role will help establish, mature, and evolve delivery frameworks across the organization, championing best practices and driving transformation initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in project delivery roles (e.g., Program Manager, Project Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, BA), with at least 3+ years in a leadership capacity.
• Deep understanding of project delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, hybrid traditional project management, SAFe, etc.) and proven experience in scaling across multiple teams.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience managing cross-functional and distributed teams.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a focus on value delivery.
• Experience with project delivery tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, etc.).
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or aviation governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of executives, managers, clients, customers, and the general team members.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to present to all levels of executive management and direct teams to complete service management tasks.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Makes decisions daily on use of resources, performance, and budgets.
• Able to talk or hear up to 35% of the time.
• Able to sit over 70% of the time.
• Able to focus with clear vision at 20 inches or less (computer screen).

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in related field.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Professional, SAFe Program Consultant PMI-ACP, ICAgile, PMP) are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Project Managers, Scrum Masters and Business Analysts to foster high-performing, self-organizing teams.
• Develop and evolve project delivery practices across teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
• Partner with Business leaders, Engineering, and other cross-functional leaders to ensure efficient and consistent delivery of business value.
• Champion the adoption of project delivery frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, hybrid, waterfall), tailoring approaches as needed to fit team and organizational needs.
• Drives the development and implementation of project delivery best practices, standards, and tools across multiple methodologies.
• Lead quarterly planning sessions ensuring that risks, dependencies and resources are identified, tracked and managed.
• Provide coaching across Agile, hybrid, and waterfall practices.
• Leads the adoption of activities such as business visioning, roadmap development, stakeholder engagement, requirements management, journey mapping, release and implementation planning, backlog management, project planning and delivery governance.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance delivery efficiency, transparency, and team satisfaction.
• Support and influence change management initiatives to drive delivery maturity across the organization.
• Establish key metrics and reporting for team performance, delivery health, and process effectiveness ensuring metrics align to methodology
• Serve as an escalation point for delivery risks or impediments, working collaboratively to resolve issues quickly.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and adaptation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

What This Job Offers

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