Senior Vice President, Project Management

Stratus • ,

3d • $180,000 - $220,000

About The Position

The Senior Vice President, Project Management is Stratus’s enterprise delivery leader, responsible for translating company strategy and customer commitments into predictable, profitable, high-quality execution across the Project Management organization. The role provides executive leadership for project delivery, portfolio performance, delivery readiness, resource and capacity planning, project financial performance, risk and issue management, execution standards, and the operating system supporting project delivery. The SVP leads through senior Project Management leaders and builds a disciplined, scalable organization capable of delivering complex programs and portfolios.

Working with Sales, Customer Success, Business Solutions, Finance/FP&A, Manufacturing, Operations, and other functions, the SVP establishes ownership, handoffs, and governance from opportunity and readiness through execution, closeout, and continuous improvement. The role ensures commitments account for capacity, scope, schedule, risk, financial expectations, and operational readiness while maintaining clear functional accountability. It also strengthens Project Management capabilities and ensures leaders and teams proactively manage portfolio health, resolve issues at the appropriate level, and escalate systemic risks with facts, options, and recommendations.

The position requires travel to support in-person interaction with customers, field partners, and business stakeholders; travel may involve automobile, air, or other transportation and overnight stays. The work environment is an office, with regular collaboration and extended sitting, computer use, and virtual communication. Physical requirements may include lifting up to 20 pounds and general movement within an office setting. Employment offers are contingent on a background check; certain roles may also require drug screening or other regulatory checks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, operations, project management, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across project, program, or portfolio management; customer delivery; operations; manufacturing; service; or comparable complex execution environments is preferred.
• 5+ years leading managers, senior leaders, or multi-layer organizations with significant delivery, financial, talent, capacity, and organizational accountability is preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of a significant Project Management, delivery, business-unit, division, customer/portfolio organization, or comparable operation, including revenue/margin performance, forecast inputs, expense, capacity, investment, and performance tradeoffs.
• Proven leadership of complex multi-site, national, or enterprise programs and executive operating reviews that translate delivery, financial, customer, capacity, and risk data into decisions and recovery actions.
• Demonstrated success improving delivery predictability, project margin, forecast accuracy, portfolio health, quality, productivity, organizational capability, and scalability.
• Strong executive communication, negotiation, influence, and matrix leadership skills.
• National-travel capability is required.

Nice To Haves

• Transformation, turnaround, redesign, or rapid-growth experience is strongly valued.
• Signage experience is valued but not required when transferable leadership and operating experience are demonstrated.

Responsibilities

• Lead Vice Presidents, Program Directors, and senior Project Management leaders, setting expectations for delivery, financial performance, talent, quality, capacity, governance, and operating discipline.
• Translate Project Management strategy into annual operating priorities, organizational design, capacity plans, leadership objectives, investment needs, and measurable outcomes.
• Build a scalable Project Management organization through succession planning, leadership development, strategic hiring, role design, and capability building.
• Escalate systemic delivery risks, capacity constraints, investment needs, and structural barriers with facts, options, and recommendations.
• Oversee the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, ensuring disciplined handoffs, evidence-based readiness, ownership, and accountability from opportunity through continuous improvement.
• Lead portfolio governance and executive operating reviews covering project health, schedule, forecast, margin, quality, capacity, readiness, talent, risk, and corrective actions.
• Govern material delivery risks, actions, issues, and decisions, ensuring early visibility, ownership, recovery plans, milestones, and closure.
• Lead the Project Management delivery escalation process and maintain accountability for delivery recovery and execution while partnering with Customer Success on customer-facing escalations.
• Establish and improve Project Management standards, readiness gates, decision rights, operating rhythms, performance measures, and role clarity.
• Ensure exceptions to readiness and governance standards have documented rationale and risk, accountable ownership, mitigation plans, and timelines.
• Own Project Management performance against approved commercial and financial baselines, including forecasts, revenue timing assumptions, margin, scope and change recovery, productivity, and corrective actions.
• Partner with Finance/FP&A on project forecast inputs, billing readiness, revenue recognition, receivables, working capital, and financial risk management.
• Own Project Management capacity planning and workload health, aligning resources with demand, complexity, financial expectations, and delivery risk.
• Drive disciplined adoption of IFS, PPM, Harmony/AI, and other approved enterprise systems to improve visibility, standardization, productivity, and decision-making.
• Reduce duplicate reporting, shadow systems, and administrative burden by establishing systems of record, governance, and execution practices.
• Partner with Sales to assess delivery feasibility, capacity, schedule, execution risk, and commercial handoffs while preserving Sales ownership of pipeline, pricing, revenue strategy, and commercial commitments.
• Partner with Customer Success on portfolio health, customer communications, recovery planning, and delivery performance while preserving its ownership of strategic customer relationships, retention, and customer escalations.
• Partner with Business Solutions to ensure solution architecture, scope, estimating, technical design, and order-readiness outputs enable executable delivery commitments.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Operations to integrate functional readiness, capacity constraints, dependencies, and execution risks into project plans and customer commitments.
• Maintain clear cross-functional ownership and disciplined handoffs through consistent use of RACI, RAID, readiness standards, and authoritative enterprise data.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement program
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Health Savings Accounts with employer contributions
• Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Employee Assistance Program
• Weekly pay schedule
• 401(k) with employer match
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage
• Generous paid time off and company holidays
• Volunteer Time Off
• Paid parental leave
• Bonus or incentive compensation may be available based on the position, individual, department, and/or company performance

What This Job Offers

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