Sr Project Manager, IT

The IT Sr. Project Manager acts as a strategic partner to IT and Business leadership, translating complex
business strategies into executable technology roadmaps. This role is responsible for maximizing business
value by optimizing the delivery of either individual projects or project portfolios within a given tech stack,
ensuring alignment with organizational goals. You will lead the analysis and optimization of the costs,
resources, technologies and processes for all the projects within the assigned portfolio.
You will champion agile transformation, drive cross-functional collaboration, and lead high-impact
initiatives from concept to launch and include end user and third party provider activities pertaining to the
design, development, testing, documentation, and implementation of application product and services. As
a senior leader, you will not only manage projects but also mentor teams, foster a culture of continuous
improvement, and ensure that our technology investments deliver measurable ROI.                                                                             

In this pivotal role, you will architect and drive the delivery of our enterprise-scale application landscape,
serving as the strategic leader for our ERP, Corporate, and Core Business systems. You will bridge the gap
between complex business processes and technical architecture, ensuring that our suite of integrated
applications—from ERP and HRIS to Finance and Legal systems—are not only implemented successfully
but are architected to scale, secure, and optimized for long-term business value.

Professional Experience:

• Typically 7–10+ years of IT project management experience
• Lead ERP & Core System Transformations: Direct the full lifecycle of large-scale ERP and Corporate
  Application implementations (e.g. P2P, Finance), managing complex migrations, upgrades, and global
  rollouts. Knowledge of High Radius and Sage X3 a plus.
• Architectural Strategy & Governance: Partner with Enterprise Architects to define and enforce
  solution standards, ensuring all application projects align with the broader IT roadmap, security
  protocols, and integration strategies.
• Solution Design & Optimization: Lead the evaluation and design of scalable technical solutions,
  translating intricate business requirements into robust application architectures that minimize
  technical debt.
• Corporate Application Portfolio Management: Oversee the health and evolution of the corporate
  software ecosystem, driving continuous improvement, system rationalization, and the retirement of
  legacy platforms.
• Cross-Platform Integration: Manage the interdependencies between critical business systems,
  ensuring seamless data flow and process automation across the enterprise architecture.
  Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the primary technical liaison for business units (Finance, HR,
  Legal, Operations), translating their strategic goals into actionable application roadmaps and project
  deliverables.
• Vendor & Release Management: Orchestrate high-level vendor relationships and manage rigorous
  release schedules to ensure system stability, compliance, and timely delivery of new features.

Project & Portfolio Management:

• Project Intake & Governance: Partner with PMO leadership to drive data-driven portfolio decisions, establishing rigorous go/no-go criteria that align investment with business strategy.
• Prioritization & Optimization: Evaluate project value to prioritize and allocate resources effectively, ensuring work begins at the optimal time.
• Portfolio Planning: Develop project sequencing and timing, considering resource constraints and interdependencies.
• Resource Capacity Planning: Assess resource utilization against available capacity and allocate resources accordingly.
• Portfolio Intelligence: transform raw project data into actionable insights for executive leadership, providing transparency into portfolio health, value realization, and strategic alignment.
• Value Management: Evaluate, measure, and track project benefits at the portfolio level.
• Communication: Clearly communicate all aspects of project and portfolio progress to relevant stakeholders.

Risk & Change Management:

• Assess Risk: Assess and manage portfolio-level risks, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Change Management: Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques

Product & Requirements Management:

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to gather,
  document, and analyze business requirements, translating them into clear, actionable user stories.
• Backlog Management: Assist the Product Owner in managing and prioritizing the product backlog,
  ensuring stories are well-defined, appropriately sized, and ready for development.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Act as a bridge between the development team and business stakeholders,
  clarifying requirements and fostering a shared understanding of project goals and scope.
• Documentation: Create and maintain essential documentation, including user stories, acceptance
  criteria, and process flows.
• Testing Support: Partner with the development team to define test cases and acceptance criteria, and
  lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Requirements: Ensure projects meet business requirements and compliance standards (e.g., security,
  privacy, and regulatory).

Agile & Scrum Leadership:

• Scrum Facilitation: Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint
  Review, and Sprint Retrospective, ensuring their productivity and adherence to time-boxes.
• Servant-Leadership & Coaching: Coach and mentor the development team on agile principles and
  Scrum practices, promoting self-organization and cross-functionality increasing velocity, quality, and
  predictability.
• Impediment Removal: Proactively identify, track, and help the team remove roadblocks and
  impediments.
• Continuous Improvement: Guide the team in process improvement through retrospectives and by
  fostering a collaborative culture.
• Reporting & Metrics: Track and report on key metrics like milestones, deliverables, and agile metrics
  (e.g., burndown charts, velocity) to provide transparency into team performance and progress.
  Documentation: Document lessons learned and conduct post-project evaluations.

Technical & Strategic Acumen:

• Technical Understanding: Familiarity with enterprise platforms, including the ability to oversee
  related projects. Understand software development lifecycles (SDLC) and comfortably collaborate with
  engineers on technical requirements.
• Emerging Technologies: Maintain a general awareness of emerging technologies such as Generative
  AI, Machine Learning, and Robotics.
• Business Translation: Capable of grasping complex technical concepts, evaluating vendor proposals,
  and clearly communicating implications to business stakeholders. Comfortable translating technical
  details into business outcomes and ROI for leadership.

Portfolio Management:

• Phase-Gate Governance: Support and maintain the governance structure to evaluate, authorize, and
  monitor projects as they pass through the project lifecycle, ensuring alignment with organizational
  standards
• Strategic Portfolio Optimization: Utilize advanced techniques to identify and manage the optimal
  grouping of projects to maximize risk-adjusted portfolio value while adhering to budgetary constraints.
• Integrated Reporting and Analytics: Analyze and report on the overall portfolio's health, value, and
  progress, providing high-level visibility to senior leadership for informed decision-making.
• Portfolio-Level Risk Mitigation: Assess the risk nature of individual projects and proactively manage
  consolidated portfolio-level risks to safeguard the success of the broader technology roadmap.

Education/ Years of Related Experience:

• 10+ years of experience, specifically leading IT project portfolios with minimum of 5 years in ERP, P2P,
  PIM, WMS solutions
• PMP certification required. Additional certifications such as CSM (Certified Scrum Master), ITIL, or
  equivalent are strongly encouraged
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Engineering,
  Computer Science, Management, or related Technical field.
• Jira, Confluence and Smartsheet required

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Exceptional executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical
  concepts into clear business narratives for non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale, high-risk IT programs on time and within
  scope and budget.
• Proven analytical, problem-solving, decision making, and prioritization skills
• Able to contribute to the big picture, conceptualize outcomes, and identify trends
• Leverages business and technical expertise across disciplines, demonstrating a high level of industry
  knowledge
• Possess high-level knowledge and proficiency in Resource Management practices and Change
  Management techniques

Working Conditions
Environment: Office
Schedule: Regular Office Schedule
Physical Requirements: Sedentary; Lifting to 10 lbs.
Travel Required: None

This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and
qualifications associated with the job. An individual must be able to perform all of the duties and
responsibilities listed in a fully competent manner to be considered successful in the position. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and
responsibilities.

Qualifications Education Preferred Bachelors or better. Equal Opportunity Employer
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