Senior IT Project Manager

Summary

The Senior IT Project Manager oversees large, impactful IT programs and multiple projects, managing project intake, research, requirements, and assignments. They translate business needs into technical requirements, ensure delivery outcomes, benefits realization, financial stewardship, governance, and executive stakeholder alignment. Additionally, they coach other project managers, drive PMO improvements, and handle vendor management, contract negotiation, and portfolio planning.

What You'll Do

• Guide requirements gathering and prioritization, MVP definition, and incremental value delivery; ensure readiness for change. Oversee testing strategy, release governance, cutover orchestration, and production stabilization. Ensure adherence to security, privacy, regulatory, and audit controls; partner with compliance and internal audit.
• Own program/project portfolio strategy, scope, roadmap, and value realization aligned to business OKRs. Establish governance: steering committees, decision frameworks, escalation paths, and measurable KPIs.
• Build multi-release plans, dependency networks, capacity models, and integrated risk/compliance plans across teams. Lead cross-functional delivery spanning product, engineering, data, security, enterprise architecture, and operations.
• Drive financial management: business cases, multi-year budgets, benefits tracking, EAC/ETC, and variance recovery. Direct contract and vendor management: RFPs, SOWs, SLAs, negotiation, performance management. Communicate crisply with executives: options analysis, trade-offs, risks, and decisions required.
• Lead change management and communications strategies to drive adoption and measurable outcomes. May mentor PMs, uplift delivery practices, and champion continuous improvement. Interface with portfolio management to sequence investments and manage cross-program dependencies. Anticipate and resolve systemic delivery impediments; implement process and tooling enhancements
• Other duties.

What You Need

• 5 – 7 years leading complex IT programs/projects in enterprise environments.
• Proven delivery of large-scale initiatives (e.g., ERP/CRM transformations, cloud migrations, data platforms, enterprise security, M&A integrations).
• Demonstrated leadership of matrixed teams and third parties across multiple business units and geographies.

Travel

• Less than 10% Travel Required