Program and Project Management - Project Manager/Business Professional - Senior

Mindlance is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support the integration of Forge’s third party portfolio into enterprise vendor management, risk, and procurement processes. The role focuses on coordinating complex, cross-functional workstreams and conducting gap/variance analysis while ensuring effective stakeholder communication and documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Support execution of the Forge third party integration program across multiple concurrent workstreams, coordinating activities across:
• Vendor Management
• Third Party Risk Management
• Legal
• Procurement
• Information Security
• Finance and other risk and control partners
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, ensuring alignment to the overall integration roadmap and Director level direction
• Track and manage interdependencies across workstreams, escalating risks and decisions as needed
• Coordinate risk and process based gap/variance analysis between Forge’s current state practices and enterprise requirements
• Support the design and documentation of interim processes and oversight approaches to mitigate identified gaps prior to full integration
• Track interim approaches, approvals, owners, dependencies, and sunset timing
• Coordinate analysis of Forge’s third party portfolio to support:
• Identification of overlapping or duplicate suppliers
• Risk tiering and segmentation alignment
• Opportunities for rationalization or consolidation
• Establish and maintain synergy tracking artifacts (e.g., supplier overlaps, cost opportunities, risk reduction indicators), tracking progress against targets established by leadership
• Support analysis and enablement only; execution authority remains with functional owners
• Prepare senior management ready integration reporting, including:
• Status updates
• Key risks and mitigations
• Dependency and decision tracking
• Portfolio and synergy summaries
• Support preparation of materials for integration governance forums and senior leadership reviews
• Facilitate working sessions and integration checkpoints to maintain alignment across stakeholders
• Coordinate activities related to vendor and risk data integration, including inventory alignment and data readiness (hands on remediation performed by SMEs)
• Support coordination of activities involving Ariba and related procurement/vendor data
• Maintain structured documentation using OneNote, Excel, and PM tools to ensure transparency and continuity

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager, including support of complex, cross functional integration initiatives
• Strong experience managing multiple parallel workstreams as a senior individual contributor
• Proven ability to conduct and coordinate gap/variance analysis and support interim operating model design
• Experience working with or adjacent to: Vendor management, Procurement, Supplier or third party portfolios, Risk or compliance related programs
• Demonstrated ability to produce clear, executive level integration reporting
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, OneNote, and enterprise PM tools
• Post acquisition or large scale business integration experience
• Exposure to third party risk management concepts (depth of SME knowledge not required)
• Familiarity with Ariba or similar procurement/vendor platforms
• Experience tracking integration synergies (cost, efficiency, risk reduction)
• Financial services or other regulated industry experience (preferred, not required)