Senior Project Manager – 6 month contract

Role Overview

• Act as the primary client liaison to lead the implementation of projects within the Strategic Delivery Office
• Support multi-year enterprise transformation programs or individual projects governed by the SDO
• Manage both standalone projects and workstreams embedded within larger transformation programs
• Collaborate with Program Directors, Business stakeholders, OCM partners, and Enterprise Architecture teams
• Manage project budget, scope, team resources, communications, and project plans
• Proactively integrate Change Management into project planning
• Report and communicate to executive sponsors and stakeholders on project milestones, budget tracking, and status updates
• Leverage data-driven metrics and AI-enabled insights for forecasting and risk identification
• Manage risks and issues, ensuring accountability at appropriate levels.
• Coordinate with Vendors and manage Vendor relationships
• Foster continued growth of the team’s project management capabilities

Requirements

• 5-10 years’ experience in project management
• 3-5 years' experience in SaaS business environments
• Experience in managing at least one of the following types of projects: Enterprise-wide transformation programs, Technology modernization projects, Multi-vendor delivery projects, or Cross-functional multi-team delivery initiatives.
• Experience delivering workstreams within enterprise-wide transformation programs (multi-year, cross-functional).
• Experience working within matrixed governance environments with cross-program dependencies.
• Experience in managing enterprise information management programs, corporates data office projects or digital transformation projects.
• PMP or Agile designation preferred.
• Experience partnering with OCM teams to manage change impacts and readiness.
• Self-motivated, strong and demonstrated business acumen, assertive.
• Extremely detailed oriented, organized, exceptional time management skills.
• Excellent communication, time management, scope management with the ability to interpret portfolio dashboards, metrics, and data insights to drive decisions.
• Comfortable working with AI-assisted delivery and analysis tools.
• Excellent knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining, and conveying risks and/or impacts to budget, schedule and resourcing.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, Aha!, JIRA or other project management tools.

Tech Stack

• PMP

Benefits

• Flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work