Senior Project Manager

Impact the Moment

At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide every day. We design intuitive and effective tools and experiences that maximize teachers' time and students' learning. And we do all of this in a supportive and collaborative environment where we work alongside brilliant colleagues, touch lives around the world, see the difference our hard work makes, and continue our paths of lifelong learning.

How can you make an Impact?

The Senior Project Manager , Enterprise Systems is a senior, handson delivery leader accountable for the endtoend execution of largescale, multiphase enterprise application and business transformation programs. Operating at the intersection of business strategy, technology execution, and organizational change, this role drives predictable delivery, transparency, and measurable value realization across complex, global initiatives.

The SPM owns full accountability for program outcomes-scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and benefits-while acting as a trusted partner to executive sponsors. This is not a coordination role; it is a highly visible leadership position requiring decisive execution, strong governance, critical thinking, decision making and the ability to scale delivery across enterprise platforms, vendors, and crossfunctional teams.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What you'll do:

• Lead large, complex enterprise programs or portfolios aligned with strategic business objectives.
• Own the full program lifecycle from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, stabilization, and value realization.
• Define and govern integrated roadmaps, master schedules, critical paths, dependencies, resource plans, and delivery strategies across business and technology workstreams.
• Maintain end-to-end accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk management, and business outcomes.
• Lead enterprise-wide transformations and implementations involving ERP, CRM, ecommerce, revenue management, digital platforms, and enterprise data solutions.
• Establish and manage program governance frameworks, including Steering Committees, stage gates, change control, financial oversight, escalations, and executive decision-making processes.
• Ensure adherence to PMO standards, SDLC controls, security, compliance, audit requirements, and delivery best practices.
• Own RAID management, proactively identifying, mitigating, escalating, and resolving program risks, issues, actions, and decisions.
• Drive execution excellence across all delivery phases, including design, build, testing, deployment, release readiness, and post-go-live support.
• Serve as the primary liaison to executive sponsors, providing concise reporting, actionable recommendations, transparent program health metrics, and value realization updates.
• Build alignment across business and technology stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving consensus within a complex matrixed organization.
• Lead global cross-functional delivery teams spanning business, IT, Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Security, Operations, Data, Change Management, and external partners.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, and SAFe methodologies, tailoring delivery approaches to program complexity while balancing governance and execution needs.
• Establish and leverage program performance metrics, dashboards, forecasting, and risk analytics to provide predictive insights and support informed decision-making.

What you bring to the role:

• 10-12+ years of experience leading enterprisescale technology and business transformation programs. Proven success delivering complex digital transformation initiatives in large, global organizations. Tier1 consulting experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or relevant Master's degree preferred. PMP required or strongly preferred. Agile / SAFe certifications a plus; PgMP a differentiator.
• Oracle Fusion Cloud, Oracle EBusiness Suite, Salesforce, Zuora Revenue Management, Oracle Integration Cloud, Informatica IICS, UiPath (RPA), OCI, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS platforms
• Experience working with Custom Application Development & Digital Platforms
• PMO / PPM / Collaboration: Asana, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365
• Executivelevel presence with strong communication and influencing skills.
• Structured, analytical problemsolving with rootcause orientation.
• Decisive leadership under pressure in highrisk, highvisibility environments.
• Proven ability to align and mobilize crossfunctional stakeholders without direct authority

Why McGraw Hill?

We believe education changes lives, and we're building the AI-powered tools to prove it. You'll join a collaborative, mission-driven team where your work reaches millions - and where you'll have the room to grow, whether that's deepening your technical expertise or expanding your leadership impact. We offer clear career paths, competitive compensation, and the rare opportunity to work at the intersection of two of the most exciting fields in technology: applied AI and education.

The pay range for this position is between $105,600 - $160,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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