Senior Project Manager

Invesco • Atlanta, GA

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

Invesco is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-visibility initiatives spanning multiple teams, business functions, technologies, and external partners. The role requires an experienced leader who can execute in ambiguous environments, create structure, influence decisions across organizational levels, and guide initiatives from business case development and funding approval through planning, delivery, operational transition, and benefits measurement. The Senior Project Manager presents options and tradeoffs, challenges assumptions, and drives accountability across stakeholders. The position typically oversees, plans, and implements special projects related to existing and new technology initiatives, with a focus on cost and efficiency for long-term solutions.

The role leads strategic project planning and delivery, including governance, business cases, funding requests, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, effort tracking, vendor management, executive communications, and value realization. It coordinates across business, technology, security, legal, compliance, finance, procurement, operations, and external partners. The project manager also uses AI-enabled tools to support planning, estimation, analysis, reporting, risk identification, and decision-making, while following enterprise policies for responsible AI use, confidentiality, data protection, and governance.

The position is full-time and classified as an employee role. Under Invesco’s workplace policy, employees are expected to spend at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office, as of October 1, 2025. Invesco describes itself as an equal opportunity employer and states that qualified applicants receive consideration without discrimination on protected grounds.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience leading large, complex, cross-functional projects or initiatives in global environments.
• Proven experience supporting complex, executive-facing projects with significant business, technology, risk, or operational impact.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple concurrent projects and interconnected workstreams.
• Experience developing business cases, funding requests, cost estimates, benefits measures, and executive presentations.
• Strong experience with project governance, reporting, dependency management, RAID tracking, and effort tracking against approved estimates.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and facilitate executive decision-making using clear options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, third-party delivery, and enterprise technology implementations.
• Ability to make accountable delivery decisions, including escalation, scope tradeoffs, reprioritization, pausing or stopping work, and resetting expectations.
• Advanced proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Planner, and related enterprise tools.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to support planning, analysis, reporting, and decision-making.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading technology, cybersecurity, audit, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience delivering enterprise platform implementations and large-scale technology deployments involving multiple integrations and operational stakeholders.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, enterprise applications, security operations, identity and access management, data protection, vulnerability or exposure management, and governance projects.
• Experience supporting portfolio management, strategic planning, demand management, and investment governance processes.

Nice To Haves

• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification or experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex initiatives with interconnected workstreams, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Define project objectives, success criteria, roadmaps, milestones, and measurable business outcomes.
• Establish governance structures and decision-making processes, and create alignment as priorities and requirements evolve.
• Coordinate collaboration across business, technology, security, legal, compliance, finance, procurement, operations, and external partners.
• Develop business cases, funding requests, executive presentations, cost estimates, and benefits analyses.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, delivery timelines, work breakdown structures, critical paths, dependencies, and implementation plans.
• Drive delivery throughout the project lifecycle, from inception through implementation and closeout.
• Manage project scope, schedule, quality, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, interlocks, and change activities.
• Track actual effort and internal hours against approved estimates and planned allocations; surface variances and resource constraints.
• Coordinate internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders to align deliverables, timelines, and commitments.
• Maintain project documentation, RAID logs, action items, decisions, accomplishments, upcoming deliverables, and status updates.
• Recommend course corrections when scope, schedule, assumptions, or expected value changes; make delivery decisions including escalation, tradeoffs, reprioritization, pausing or stopping work, and resetting expectations.
• Prepare executive-ready presentations, status reports, dashboards, and strategic updates; facilitate steering committees, governance forums, and leadership discussions.
• Ensure stakeholders have visibility into project health, progress, financials, dependencies, decisions, and expected outcomes.
• Support vendor evaluation, selection, and implementation planning; manage vendor performance, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.
• Ensure third-party delivery aligns with strategic objectives, enterprise standards, risk requirements, and governance processes.
• Use AI-enabled tools to improve planning, estimation, analysis, reporting, risk identification, and decision-making while adhering to responsible-use requirements.
• Define and track KPIs, risk-reduction measures, business outcomes, and value-realization metrics.
• Lead formal closeout, including delivery validation, financial reconciliation, documentation, and lessons learned.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and communicate realized benefits against approved business cases and strategic objectives.
• Build trusted partnerships across distributed, cross-functional teams and promote project management standards, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, accountability, transparency, proactive communication, ownership, and results-oriented execution.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off.
• Hybrid work schedule.
• 401(k) matching of 100% up to the first 6%, with a discretionary supplemental contribution.
• Health and wellbeing benefits.
• Parental leave benefits.
• Employee stock purchase plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed