Project Manager

Project Manager

Lead business and functional projects from definition through handoff, creating clarity across stakeholders, plans, decisions, risks, dependencies, and outcomes. This role is designed for an experienced business-oriented Project Manager who can quickly establish governance, translate business objectives into executable plans, and drive cross-functional delivery. Technical fluency is valuable, but deep technical project management is not the primary focus.

• Project definition and planning. Partner with sponsors and business leaders to clarify objectives, scope, success measures, deliverables, assumptions, constraints, resources, milestones, and decision rights.

• Delivery leadership. Build and maintain integrated project plans; coordinate work across functional teams; monitor progress; and drive timely execution through completion and operational handoff.

• Stakeholder alignment. Establish productive relationships with sponsors, functional leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, and other partners. Facilitate clear decisions, commitments, and accountability.

• Governance and reporting. Create an appropriate operating rhythm, including status reporting, working sessions, steering updates, decision logs, and action tracking. Escalate clearly and at the right time.

• Risk and dependency management. Identify, assess, document, and actively manage risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and cross-project dependencies.

• Change control. Evaluate proposed changes to scope, schedule, cost, resources, and expected outcomes; document impacts and guide stakeholders through approval and prioritization decisions.

• Business process focus. Map current and future-state processes, surface gaps, coordinate requirements, and support practical improvements that are sustainable after project close.

• Adoption and transition. Coordinate readiness, communications, training, documentation, stakeholder feedback, and handoff activities with the accountable business owners.

• Continuous improvement. Capture lessons learned and recommend fit-for-purpose improvements to project practices, workflows, templates, and governance.

Measures of Success:

• Clear, shared understanding of scope, outcomes, ownership, milestones, and decision paths.

• Timely visibility into project health, risks, decisions, dependencies, and required leadership actions.

• Deliverables meet agreed acceptance criteria and are transitioned to accountable business owners.

• Stakeholders are aligned, informed, and able to make decisions with the information provided.

• Project documentation is current, usable, and proportionate to project complexity

• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex business or functional projects with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Strong command of project management fundamentals, including planning, governance, scope, schedule, cost awareness, risks, issues, dependencies, change control, and status reporting.

• Ability to translate broad business objectives into clear workstreams, deliverables, ownership, and measurable outcomes.

• Executive-ready written and verbal communication, with the judgment to tailor detail for sponsors, leaders, and project teams.

• Proven facilitation, negotiation, and influence skills in matrixed environments where authority may be indirect.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize incomplete or conflicting information and drive decisions.

• Experience with business process analysis, operational improvement, organizational change, or business transformation initiatives.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work with limited direction, and bring structure to ambiguous situations.

• Proficiency with standard project planning, collaboration, reporting, presentation, and documentation tools.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.

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