Position Overview
Marubeni America Corporation is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager - Digital Innovation to join our Digital Innovation Team and serve as an internal consultant to Marubeni Group Companies. This role is responsible for managing strategic, cross-functional initiatives that drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, risk reduction, and digital transformation across a diverse portfolio of businesses.
The Senior Project Manager will work with the other members of the Digital Innovation Team to bridge strategic business objectives with operational execution. Partnering with executives, business stakeholders, and technical teams the PM will ensure successful delivery of complex initiatives. The ideal candidate is a highly organized leader with strong consulting, stakeholder management, and project delivery experience who can help guide projects from concept through implementation while maintaining focus on business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Delivery
- Develop project charters, business cases, project plans, budgets, schedules, and governance structures together with project stakeholders.
- Establish clear objectives, milestones, deliverables, and success metrics.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives.
- Manage project scope, risks, dependencies, issues, and change requests.
- Track and report project performance against established goals and KPIs.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with executive leadership, business leaders, technology teams, and external partners.
- Communicate project status, risks, and recommendations to senior management.
- Align stakeholders around project goals, priorities, and expected outcomes.
Operational Excellence
- Work with the Digital Innovation Team to establish and maintain project management standards, methodologies, and governance frameworks.
- Drive continuous improvement in project delivery processes.
- Capture lessons learned and share best practices across business units.
- Support portfolio management activities and strategic planning efforts.
Required Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in project management, management consulting, business transformation, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience managing projects with significant operational, technology, data, or process change components.
- PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or comparable project management certification.
- Experience with Project Management tools, specifically Monday.com
- Experience in management consulting or internal consulting organizations.
Skills & Competencies
- Exceptional project planning, organization, and execution skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong consulting mindset with the ability to understand business challenges and translate them into actionable plans.
- Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations.
- Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.
- Proven ability to build relationships across all levels of the organization.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Collaborative and team-oriented approach with a strong customer-service mindset.
