Job Description

Senior Project Manager

The Senior Project Manager leads cross-functional Technology initiatives from strategy through execution, ensuring alignment with business priorities, financial targets, and enterprise delivery standards. This role drives predictable outcomes through rigorous planning, strong stakeholder engagement, proactive risk mitigation, and disciplined adherence to PMO methodologies. 

Key Accountabilities 

• Lead complex, cross-functional Technology projects and programs from requirements through implementation, ensuring alignment with business goals and delivery of expected outcomes.
• Provide executive-level communication and leadership updates, including progress, risks, mitigation strategies, financial impacts, and delivery confidence.
• Oversee project scope, schedule, financials, and resources, ensuring disciplined planning, forecasting, and adherence to approved budgets and timelines.
• Drive consistent execution by enforcing PMO delivery methodologies, best practices, and compliance with required processes and controls.
• Partner with business and Technology leaders to define requirements, prioritize initiatives, and ensure shared ownership of outcomes.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues, escalating only when required to protect scope, schedule, or financial targets.
• Ensure financial integrity of projects, including cost tracking, variance analysis, forecasting, and management of budget changes.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate decision-making, providing clarity around impacts, trade-offs, and delivery options.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of project documentation, including workplans, business requirements, executive presentations, and status reporting.

Education, Experience, and Skillset

• Strong experience with project/program management concepts, including project planning, reporting, and control techniques.
• Working knowledge of best practices, methodologies, and processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with business and IT stakeholders at all levels.
• Results-oriented team player with the ability to drive value and implement strategic solutions.
• Demonstrated high level of integrity and professional ethics.
• Proven ability to manage 3–6 concurrent projects of varying complexity, scope, and priority.
• Track record of success with a collaborative, participative management style.
• Professional certifications (e.g., PMP, CSM) preferred

Expectations & Performance Metrics

• Timely, accurate project status reporting-including issues, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Accuracy and quality of project workplan development and ongoing maintenance.
• Timely and accurate completion of financial true-ups
• Consistent adherence to required processes, methodologies, and internal controls.

EEO Employer

We welcome the diverse backgrounds and experiences that all employees and consultants bring to the table! Women, BIPOC, LGBTQ, Veterans, and other under-represented groups are highly encouraged to apply!

The PMO Squad provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

The PMO Squad does not intend to hire or contract the services of experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, direct sponsorship for employment authorization in the U.S. nor 3rd party employer C2C/C2H accommodations at this time. The PMO Squad is not open to third party solicitation or resumes for our posted FTE or contract positions. Resumes received from third party agencies that are unsolicited will be considered complimentary.