Senior Project Manager

Role and Accountabilities

• Accountable for overseeing the planning and execution of large-scale, complex implementation projects
• Works independently, receives minimal guidance, and leads through influence
• Responsible to a Project Management Office (PMO) consisting of a matrixed set of resources
• Consistently works with the leadership and finance teams to control project expenditures against the project operating expense and capital budgets
• Collaborates closely with partners across the organization including business partners, other technology partners and delivery managers
• Interfaces with key partners and vendors, ensuring they understand both project and project deliverables, meet timing, and cost deadlines, and collaborate with internal project stakeholders to achieve project results
• Actively leads project planning and overall strategy, to include resource needs identification
• Actively leads in establishing and tracking progress to key performance indicators
• Responsible for evaluating and tracking overall project health and status; producing actionable insights
• Identifies and ensures Risks, Actions, Issues and Decisions (RAID) are logged and actioned; works with project management and execution team to resolve items
• Proactively identifies and actively leads in the resolution of issues and conflicts
• Responsible for escalations to leadership and to vendors as appropriate to drive results
• Leads/participates in sourcing and contracting activities
• Continually apprises leadership and relevant business stakeholders of status and anything not on track
• Communicates successes supported by metrics/KPIs illustrating the business value of IT solutions
• Ensures clear communication of project scopes, timing, prioritization, budgets, resource needs, and progress on an ongoing basis
• • Exemplary communication and presentation skills, both oral and written. Ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences

Basic Qualifications Experience

• 8 years of relevant experience leading large projects and global teams with 5 project management resources
• 8 years in a technology leadership role in a Corporate environment of a similar size/complexity
• EPM (Budgeting and Financial Planning) experience
• Experience establishing and driving strategy and design for, and implementing and/or upgrading major ERP / Finance platforms
• Experience leading large, matrixed project teams including architects, developers, operations, PMs, business analysts, and vendor partners
• Experience in leading inter-organization change to increase efficiency through the implementation of technology
• Experience managing project, project and team budget and financials
• Experience with Security and Compliance
• Proven track record of execution--driving results and meeting commitments

The position is a senior leadership role (Manager II equivalent) and is part of a large transformation initiative.

Prior experience with large finance systems implementations strongly aligned

• Experience working in complex, enterprise finance environments preferred