Senior Project Manager, Business Transformation

Woolpert is a global provider of architecture, engineering, and geospatial services seeking a Senior Project Manager for its Global Transformation team. The role leads complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives by translating strategic priorities into plans, driving execution, managing risks and decisions, and communicating progress to stakeholders and executives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead project setup, planning, and execution, including charters, roadmaps, integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and phase exit criteria
• Manage day-to-day delivery by driving task ownership, timeline management, decision tracking, issue resolution, progress reporting, and timely escalation of risks or blockers
• Bring structure to ambiguous work by assessing what is needed, sequencing activities, managing scope, budget, and quality impacts, and keeping work moving with limited direction
• Lead cross-functional teams across business, technology, change management, vendor, program management, and executive stakeholder groups
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, steering committee discussions, milestone reviews, and decision forums with clear objectives and outcomes
• Deliver concise, executive-ready communications that clearly communicate project health, progress, risks, decisions needed, next steps, adoption, business value, and operational readiness
• Apply project management standards, lifecycle phases, governance forums, reporting expectations, and required project artifacts
• Ensure projects follow appropriate delivery discipline, including feasibility, design, build, test, deploy, close, sustainment, milestone reviews, change control, and formal approvals as applicable
• Identify gaps in current practices and recommend practical improvements that raise the standard for project delivery

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• 8+ years of project management experience leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead projects, create structure in ambiguity, and drive work forward with limited direction
• Experience applying project governance, delivery lifecycle discipline, milestone reviews, change control, executive reporting, and project artifact standards
• degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, Operations, or a related field preferred
• PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred
• Proficiency with Smartsheet, Microsoft 365, or similar project management and collaboration tools preferred
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder influence, conflict-resolution, and executive communication skills
• High ownership mindset with the confidence to dive in, diagnose the situation, and define the path forward without waiting for detailed instruction
• Familiarity with business transformation, ERP or enterprise systems, process optimization, operating model design, integration, or change management initiatives
• Experience supporting adoption, communications, training readiness, value realization, and transition to steady-state operations