Senior Project Manager, PMO

Role overview

Project delivery and governance

• Lead project delivery across business functions, regions, and technology domains; align work to strategy, success criteria, business value, and measurable benefits.
• Maintain integrated plans covering scope, milestones, budgets, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, quality, and delivery commitments.
• Support IT portfolio planning and prioritization; lead steering committees, present executive status, facilitate decisions, and escalate risks.
• Develop stakeholder, communication, change, training, and adoption plans; tailor waterfall, agile, or hybrid approaches.
• Mentor project managers, conduct health reviews, improve PMO processes, and lead recovery plans for off-track initiatives.

Financial, resource, and vendor management

• Own financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, variance analysis, and corrective action.
• Define resource needs, secure functional commitments, monitor capacity, and resolve resource conflicts.
• Manage vendors and implementation partners, including deliverables, dependencies, commercial commitments, performance, and contractual escalations.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or related discipline, or equivalent education and relevant experience.
• Minimum seven years of progressive experience leading complex IT projects, including cross-functional and senior-stakeholder settings.
• Experience with senior business and IT stakeholders, IT domains, business analysis, requirements definition, process alignment, and organizational change.
• Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or IPMA is strongly preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Agile or scaled-agile certification is an asset.

Skills and knowledge

• Experience across cloud, data platforms, applications, infrastructure, or integration; broader listed technology delivery experience is an asset.
• Microsoft Azure, Power BI, SQL-based solutions, and enterprise technologies are beneficial.
• Use of enterprise project and portfolio tools such as Planview Portfolio, Microsoft Project, Jira, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning, analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, negotiation, and stakeholder skills.
• Foundational understanding of IT infrastructure, networks, databases, enterprise applications, web technologies, cloud platforms, and data integration.
• Fluent English required; able to work under pressure in complex international environments.

Work environment and travel

• The posting describes a professional, dynamic team environment.
• Regular overnight travel is 10–25% of the time.

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