Project Manager, Sr

Mindlance is a company focused on project management and governance. They are seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage projects in designated IT or Business areas, ensuring goals and approved scope are achieved within time and budget constraints.

Responsibilities:

• Leads multiple medium/high complexity projects simultaneously, maintaining deep engagement across all workstreams and resource pools, under supervision of PMO management
• Partners with the project business owner, and technical lead to determine the delivery strategy, provide direction to the project team, and drive stakeholder awareness
• Provides concise executive-level communication and recommendations to sponsors, steering committees, and senior leadership
• Manages complex team dynamics, effectively facilitates conflict resolution, conducts negotiations, and achieves organizational objectives through strategic influence absent formal authority, with support from PMO management
• Actively engages the project team to drive delivery by facilitating decisions, resolving blockers, identifying risks, issues, and mitigation plans, and maintaining momentum across workstreams, project team members, vendors, and stakeholders
• Navigates a matrixed resource environment, negotiating resource commitments with resource and project managers across competing project priorities
• Manages external dependencies across teams, systems, and delivery timelines to maintain schedule integrity and risk management
• Identifies and manages cross-project and cross-program dependencies that may impact scope, schedule, cost, or business outcomes
• Escalates issues appropriately and facilitate timely decision-making among stakeholders when priorities or requirements conflict
• Conducts deep scope analysis to develop and maintain a detailed, accurate work breakdown structure throughout the project lifecycle
• Maintains a current and accurate project plan at all times, reflecting real resource assignments, actual progress, and updated forecasts
• Maintains reasonable variance between cost forecasts and actuals, with timely explanations for deviations
• Coordinates vendor procurement, engagement, delivery and performance in alignment with project objectives, as applicable
• Partners with business stakeholders to support organizational readiness, adoption planning, and implementation activities
• Maintains timesheet compliance across the project team, including reviewing and approving or rejecting weekly time submissions
• Utilizes existing and emerging technologies to drive efficient and effective project operations, including collaboration and productivity tools, AI, data analysis, and PPM tooling
• Operates effectively within a highly regulated, audit-conscious environment, ensuring project documentation, compliance artifacts, and reporting meet organizational and regulatory standards
• Supports PMO continuous improvement initiatives, as assigned
• Supports PMO sponsored projects or other initiatives, as assigned
• Fosters a project culture aligned with ***’s core values

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years related work experience managing projects, product or workstream delivery, in excess of degree requirements
• Experience as a project manager within a formal enterprise PMO, including structured phase-gate governance and tollgate approval processes and accountability for executive engagement
• Experience managing medium/high complexity projects with cross-functional resource pools
• Experience working within a matrixed organization, including resource negotiation and shared-service delivery models
• Experience operating in a highly regulated, audit-conscious environment with formal documentation, compliance, and reporting requirements
• Experience managing projects using traditional waterfall and hybrid methodologies within a structured phase-gate governance framework
• Proficiency in a Project Management scheduling tool such as Microsoft Project, as well as practical experience using a project ticketing and workflow system such as JIRA
• Bachelor's Degree: Business, Management, Engineering, IT, or related field
• Or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required
• Working experience at an ISO/RTO, ISO/RTO stakeholder, or Electric Utility environment
• Proficiency in AI prompt design
• Commercial operations or market systems projects, including customer registration, forward and real-time wholesale market, wholesale settlement, and retail market applications
• Grid system interconnection, planning, and operations projects, including forecasting, network modeling, and energy management systems and tools
• External stakeholder and customer platform projects, including websites and user portals
• PMP Project Management Professional
• Agile and Scrum certifications
• Organizational Change Management certifications
• Lean Six Sigma certifications