Senior Project Manager

McGraw Hill is a company that creates next-generation learning platforms used by millions of students and educators worldwide. The Senior Project Manager will lead large-scale enterprise application and business transformation programs, ensuring successful delivery and alignment with business strategy while acting as a trusted partner to executive sponsors.

Responsibilities:

• Lead large, complex enterprise programs or portfolios aligned with strategic business objectives
• Own the full program lifecycle from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, stabilization, and value realization
• Define and govern integrated roadmaps, master schedules, critical paths, dependencies, resource plans, and delivery strategies across business and technology workstreams
• Maintain end-to-end accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk management, and business outcomes
• Lead enterprise-wide transformations and implementations involving ERP, CRM, ecommerce, revenue management, digital platforms, and enterprise data solutions
• Establish and manage program governance frameworks, including Steering Committees, stage gates, change control, financial oversight, escalations, and executive decision-making processes
• Ensure adherence to PMO standards, SDLC controls, security, compliance, audit requirements, and delivery best practices
• Own RAID management, proactively identifying, mitigating, escalating, and resolving program risks, issues, actions, and decisions
• Drive execution excellence across all delivery phases, including design, build, testing, deployment, release readiness, and post-go-live support
• Serve as the primary liaison to executive sponsors, providing concise reporting, actionable recommendations, transparent program health metrics, and value realization updates
• Build alignment across business and technology stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving consensus within a complex matrixed organization
• Lead global cross-functional delivery teams spanning business, IT, Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Security, Operations, Data, Change Management, and external partners
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, and SAFe methodologies, tailoring delivery approaches to program complexity while balancing governance and execution needs
• Establish and leverage program performance metrics, dashboards, forecasting, and risk analytics to provide predictive insights and support informed decision-making

Requirements:

• 10–12+ years of experience leading enterprise‑scale technology and business transformation programs
• Proven success delivering complex digital transformation initiatives in large, global organizations
• Bachelor's degree required
• PMP required or strongly preferred
• Oracle Fusion Cloud, Oracle E‑Business Suite, Salesforce, Zuora Revenue Management, Oracle Integration Cloud, Informatica IICS, UiPath (RPA), OCI, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS platforms
• Experience working with Custom Application Development & Digital Platforms
• PMO / PPM / Collaboration: Asana, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365
• Executive‑level presence with strong communication and influencing skills
• Structured, analytical problem‑solving with root‑cause orientation
• Decisive leadership under pressure in high‑risk, high‑visibility environments
• Proven ability to align and mobilize cross‑functional stakeholders without direct authority
• MBA or relevant Master's degree preferred
• Agile / SAFe certifications a plus
• PgMP a differentiator
• Tier‑1 consulting experience strongly preferred