Senior Project Manager

Parts Town•Addison, IL

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Strategy & PMO Senior Manager, International Expansion partners across Parts Town’s international business and enterprise functions—including IT, eCommerce, Finance, Talent, Operations, Marketing, and Sales—to plan and deliver the work required to enter and scale new markets. The role owns a portfolio of complex, cross-functional initiatives, translates expansion priorities into executable plans, and keeps teams aligned on decisions, dependencies, risks, and timelines. It brings structure to ambiguous work and ensures initiatives deliver measurable business value. The Strategy & PMO team solves complex challenges, connects work across functions, and accelerates growth through strategy, operations, and project leadership. Parts Town describes its workplace as collaborative and supportive, with an emphasis on curiosity, a bias for action, growth, and work-life balance. The salary range is $127,500.07–$172,066.06, based on factors including qualifications, experience, and geographical location. Parts Town is a pay-for-performance company; some roles offer profit sharing and an annual bonus depending on the role. The company welcomes diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity.

Requirements

At least 7 years leading strategic, customer-facing, or operational projects, with demonstrated ownership of complex cross-functional programs.
Excellent organizational and communication skills and the ability to drive results through structured, high-impact programs without relying on direct authority.
Strong ability to establish structure, operating rhythm, and accountability for complex cross-functional teams and projects.
Proven ability to analyze complex data, distill insights, communicate the strategic implications, and drive data-informed action.
Ability to influence stakeholders from senior executives to frontline teams and create accountability across functions without direct reporting relationships.
Strong presentation and storytelling skills, including crafting clear slides and compelling data-driven narratives.
Expertise in the Microsoft Office suite.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and handle ambiguity and complex problem solving.

Nice To Haves

Experience in strategy consulting or an internal strategy, transformation, or PMO role is strongly preferred.
Experience with initiatives such as market entry, value creation, process improvement, M&A or post-merger integration, operating model design, or business unit or growth strategy.
Familiarity with modern project management and visualization tools such as Smartsheet, Asana, Tableau, or Power BI.

Responsibilities

Partner with international business and enterprise leaders to define expansion priorities, identify interdependencies, and sequence initiatives needed to launch and scale in new markets.
Use strategic and analytical frameworks to assess opportunities, prioritize initiatives, and build business cases, including NPV, ROI, and payback analysis.
Analyze data, identify insights and strategic implications, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
Create presentations that communicate analysis, takeaways, and next steps and drive alignment and action.
Translate executive direction into clear decisions, workstreams, accountabilities, and next steps.
Lead cross-functional teams and partners, including IT, eCommerce, Finance, Talent, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Legal, to align on goals, requirements, owners, and timelines.
Build and manage integrated program plans, governance routines, milestones, decision logs, and executive-ready status reporting aligned with business goals, resources, and priorities.
Maintain momentum across concurrent workstreams by surfacing dependencies, resolving issues, mitigating risks, and escalating decisions at the appropriate time.
Facilitate cross-functional workshops and leadership forums using structured problem-solving to synthesize input, resolve tradeoffs, and guide teams toward clear decisions and actionable next steps.
Support programs such as international market entry and launch readiness, operating model design, operations launches, business capability development, digital and technology enablement, customer experience development, and other strategic growth initiatives.