Senior Project Manager

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Program / Project Manager to lead and manage a diverse portfolio of complex, cross-functional projects across multiple environments. The successful candidate will be responsible for integrated planning, schedule and budget management, quality assurance, resource optimization, risk mitigation, stakeholder communication, scope control, and procurement activities.

This role requires extensive project management expertise, the ability to manage multiple interdependent projects simultaneously, and a proven track record of establishing standards, policies, strategies, and best practices. The ideal candidate will influence high-impact business decisions, manage complex project teams, and ensure successful delivery against strategic business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. Program Planning and Schedule Management

• Develop and maintain integrated master plans consolidating multiple related and interdependent projects.
• Optimize schedules, dependencies, and critical paths while evaluating alternative scenarios to improve overall delivery timelines.
• Perform resource leveling and assess schedule impacts across multiple projects and master plans.
• Monitor milestones, dependencies, and progress to ensure alignment with program objectives.

2. Budget and Cost Management

• Support the development and management of complex project and program budgets.
• Apply Earned Value (EV) analysis across multiple projects to measure performance and forecast outcomes.
• Manage resource plans against approved budgets and report planned-versus-actual cost variances.
• Reconcile multi-project budget reports across departmental budgets and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
• Develop budget optimization strategies within organizational policies, considering impacts on capital and operating expense categories.

3. Quality Management

• Promote and implement quality assurance (QA) best practices across projects and programs.
• Define, collect, and interpret quality metrics using techniques such as Pareto analysis, cause-and-effect analysis, trend analysis, and statistical sampling.
• Establish clear traceability between business requirements and technical solutions.
• Recommend quality improvements, develop standards, and maintain awareness of industry developments and emerging best practices.

4. Stakeholder Communication and Reporting

• Lead regular and ad hoc project status reviews with stakeholders to validate progress, resolve discrepancies, and clarify roles and responsibilities.
• Develop accurate, consolidated status reports to communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and delivery expectations.
• Establish program-level communication plans and standardized reporting methodologies.
• Partner with clients and business stakeholders to identify emerging business trends, assess potential impacts, and support informed decision-making.

5. Resource and Team Management

• Develop resource plans that align project requirements with team members' skills, capabilities, and career interests.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and maintain alignment around shared project objectives.
• Resolve conflicts, promote collaboration, and optimize team performance.
• Mentor project managers and project leads in project management methodologies, tools, and best practices.

6. Project Integration and Governance

• Apply established project management methodologies, tools, techniques, and best practices across the project lifecycle.
• Lead planning, estimating, staffing, execution, monitoring, and control activities.
• Balance scope, schedule, budget, quality, and resource constraints to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Manage multiple complex, high-risk, high-visibility, and strategically important projects, including cross-functional and globally distributed initiatives.
• Ensure accurate progress reporting, effective governance, and alignment with business priorities.

7. Procurement and Contract Management

• Develop Requests for Proposals (RFPs), lead bidder conferences, and evaluate vendor performance against contractual obligations.
• Identify potential contract breaches, assess their impact on project delivery, and recommend corrective actions.
• Contribute to procurement policy improvements and vendor selection processes.
• Collaborate with Legal and Contract Administration on contract terms, negotiations, issue resolution, and standard contractual clauses.
• Develop business justifications for internal versus external resource utilization.

8. Risk and Issue Management

• Identify, assess, prioritize, and manage project risks across multiple projects.
• Develop risk mitigation and contingency plans and facilitate risk identification workshops.
• Maintain and update risk registers and management plans as project conditions evolve.
• Incorporate risk assessments into change management and decision-making processes.
• Provide expert guidance on high-impact risks and troubleshoot complex projects experiencing risk-related challenges.

9. Scope and Change Management

• Define and refine project scope statements, requirements, deliverables, and exclusions.
• Assess the impact of scope changes on schedules, budgets, resources, and project outcomes.
• Develop detailed Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) aligned with project requirements and scope management plans.
• Maintain traceability between scope, requirements, deliverables, and project decisions.
• Evaluate scope change alternatives with stakeholders and optimize change control processes across multiple projects.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Extensive experience managing complex projects and programs across multiple environments, business functions, and applications.
• Proven experience managing multiple interdependent projects and diverse project portfolios simultaneously.
• Demonstrated expertise in project planning, scheduling, budgeting, resource management, quality assurance, procurement, risk management, and scope control.
• Strong experience leading cross-functional project teams and coordinating stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Demonstrated ability to establish project management standards, policies, strategies, and best practices.
• Experience influencing high-impact business decisions and strategic initiatives.
• Strong understanding of industry trends, market developments, and emerging project management practices.
• Ability to apply theoretical knowledge and practical experience to complex project management challenges.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Experience managing high-risk, high-visibility, mission-critical, or strategic global projects.
• Experience mentoring project managers and project leads in project management best practices.
• Expertise in project governance, integrated planning, performance measurement, and continuous improvement.

Core Competencies

• Program and portfolio management
• Integrated master scheduling and critical path optimization
• Budgeting, forecasting, and Earned Value Management
• Risk, issue, and change management
• Quality assurance and continuous improvement
• Scope management and Work Breakdown Structure development
• Resource planning and team leadership
• Procurement and contract management
• Stakeholder engagement and executive reporting
• Strategic planning and decision-making
• Cross-functional collaboration and conflict resolution

Professional Profile

The ideal candidate is a seasoned project management professional with extensive experience delivering complex, multi-project initiatives. This individual combines strategic thinking with strong execution capabilities, demonstrates expertise across all major project management disciplines, and is recognized for influencing organizational standards and best practices. The candidate can navigate diverse and challenging environments, manage competing priorities, build high-performing teams, and consistently deliver project outcomes aligned with business objectives.