Senior Project Manager
About The Position
The Senior Project Manager manages the entire project lifecycle, from project definition through implementation, and is accountable for agreed-upon scope, cost, schedule, and quality measures. The role develops project plans, drives milestones, provides day-to-day direction to project resources, and ensures effective change management throughout the project. The position coordinates engineering, product, marketing, and vendor partners to align on scope, hand-offs, and cross-team dependencies, including testing windows, deployment schedules, and eligibility or data pulls. It tracks committed dates, milestones, status, health indicators, hot topics, and risks in Jira/Nexus, and keeps reporting accurate. The Senior Project Manager facilitates meetings, drives action items to closure, assesses scope changes and their schedule or resource impacts, and escalates issues to leadership with clear options when needed. The role prepares project documentation, status reports, budgets, and leadership-ready stakeholder updates emphasizing production release dates and business value milestones. Updates are finalized and distributed ahead of executive reviews. Success requires strong oral and written communication, interpersonal, negotiation, planning, judgment, leadership, decision-making, analysis, and problem-solving skills, as well as specialized knowledge of MS Project, Visio, Excel, and Word.
Requirements
- 10 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
- Specialized knowledge of MS Project, Visio, Excel, and Word.
- Excellent oral and written communication, interpersonal, negotiation, project planning, judgment, leadership, decision-making, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
Responsibilities
- Manage the project lifecycle from project definition through implementation.
- Be accountable for meeting agreed-upon scope, cost, schedule, and quality measures.
- Develop project plans and drive project milestones.
- Establish an effective communication plan with the project team and key stakeholders.
- Provide day-to-day direction to project resources.
- Ensure effective change management throughout the project.
- Prepare project documentation, status reports, and budgets.
- Coordinate with engineering, product, marketing, and vendor partners to align scope, hand-offs, and cross-team dependencies.
- Update project committed dates, executive status fields, and health indicators in Jira/Nexus; monitor milestones, flag schedule slips, and maintain hot topics and risk logs.
- Facilitate stand-ups, program reviews, and breakout sessions; capture decisions and action items, assign owners, and follow up to closure.
- Assess incoming scope changes and new information, evaluate schedule and resource impacts, and escalate to leadership with clear options when triggers are met.
- Prepare leadership-ready updates emphasizing production release dates and business value milestones, and distribute them ahead of executive reviews.
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Career Level
Senior
