Job Summary
The Sr Manager leads and develops Argano’s Microsoft Project Coordination Team within the Project Management Office (PMO), with accountability for team performance, talent development, and resource capacity. The role partners with PMO leadership to advance strategic initiatives, strengthen governance, and improve project delivery, while providing leadership and escalation support across the team. With a reduced utilization target, the Sr Manager balances these leadership responsibilities with hands-on delivery as a Senior Project Coordinator or Project Manager when capacity requires. Success requires strong leadership, deep project management expertise, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead project coordination across the full project lifecycle, ensuring effective planning, execution, monitoring, transition, and closeout in alignment with PMO standards and delivery expectations.
- Oversee project plans, schedules, budgets, resource assignments, and dependencies, monitoring project health and driving timely corrective action when delivery deviates from plan.
- Facilitate cross-functional coordination and stakeholder communication across project teams, Practice Leads, PMO leadership, and other internal stakeholders to maintain alignment on priorities, commitments, risks, and dependencies.
- Identify, track, and escalate project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints, ensuring appropriate mitigation, ownership, and resolution, particularly for high-risk or challenged engagements.
- Drive consistent adoption of PMO governance, methodologies, standards, and delivery processes, identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiency, quality, predictability, and overall project execution.
- Support adoption of AI within PMO and provide subject matter expertise to build upon future initiatives and process improvements.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Project Coordination team, providing mentoring, training, career development, regular feedback, and clear expectations while maintaining accountability for team effectiveness.
- Own team staffing, capacity planning, workload balancing, and readiness, partnering with Practice Leads and PMO leadership to align resources with current and anticipated project demand.
- Manage employee development and performance processes for direct reports, including competency assessments, development plans, annual reviews, and compensation input.
- Serve as an escalation point for project, resource, process, and internal team concerns, facilitating resolution and engaging PMO leadership when additional intervention is required.
- Lead team operating rhythms, including team meetings, resource and capacity reviews, calibration discussions, and operational reviews focused on delivery health, priorities, and organizational readiness.
- Support PMO talent management, including hiring, onboarding, training, development, and offboarding, while helping ensure appropriate Project Coordinator and Project Manager coverage for client engagements.
- Partner with PMO leadership on strategic and operational initiatives, including project governance, contract/SOW reviews, delivery readiness, process improvement, organizational planning, and team health.
- Conduct project closeout and lessons-learned activities, translating findings into improvements to PMO processes, standards, tools, and delivery practices.
- Provide hands-on Project Coordinator or Project Manager leadership when required, supporting critical engagements or addressing capacity and coverage needs.
Decision Making Authority
- Performance ratings and development plans for direct reports
- Prioritization and assignment of Project Coordinator activities
- PMO operational processes and working procedures within established governance standards
- Escalation of project setup, compliance, or governance issues
- Training, onboarding, and development activities for the team
Influences Decisions For
- Promotion and compensation outcomes
- Hiring, onboarding, and offboarding across the PMO
- Staffing on client projects, in conjunction with Practice Leads
- Changes to PMO and ADO Delivery Methodology
KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
- Utilization – 50%
- Revenue Managed – Up to $2.5M
- Competency reviews and development plans completed on schedule
- Team utilization against target and workload balance
- Governance and methodology compliance on the team’s projects
- PM and stakeholder satisfaction with team support
- Successful execution of PMO initiatives
- Personal utilization and Annual Review
Argano Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Argano and has not been reviewed or approved by Argano.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave policies offer up to 8 weeks for all parents, with birth mothers eligible for up to 20 weeks of paid time off. This structure signals meaningful support for families during and after childbirth or adoption.
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Retirement Support — Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans include immediate company matching. This immediate match enhances long-term savings and indicates a solid retirement benefit.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible time off, paid holidays, and specialized leave expand time-away options beyond standard PTO. This breadth allows employees to plan rest and personal needs more freely.
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What We Do
Argano is a next-generation business and technology services provider that builds the Digital Foundations™ that make businesses run better. We leverage insights and innovations to help leaders design and implement the complex solutions necessary to not just survive but thrive and improve financial and operational performance. Argano believes a firm’s core operating technologies should be enablers of commercial innovation, not a constant source of limitation, and is committed to helping clients think differently about how they deploy and manage people, processes and technology.
