Project Manager

LanceSoft, Inc. is recruiting a Project Manager to lead business and functional projects from definition through operational handoff. The role is responsible for planning, cross-functional delivery, stakeholder alignment, governance, risk management, process improvement, change control, and transition activities.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with sponsors and business leaders to clarify objectives, scope, success measures, deliverables, assumptions, constraints, resources, milestones, and decision rights
• Build and maintain integrated project plans; coordinate work across functional teams; monitor progress; and drive timely execution through completion and operational handoff
• Establish productive relationships with sponsors, functional leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, and other partners. Facilitate clear decisions, commitments, and accountability
• Create an appropriate operating rhythm, including status reporting, working sessions, steering updates, decision logs, and action tracking. Escalate clearly and at the right time
• Identify, assess, document, and actively manage risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and cross-project dependencies
• Evaluate proposed changes to scope, schedule, cost, resources, and expected outcomes; document impacts and guide stakeholders through approval and prioritization decisions
• Map current and future-state processes, surface gaps, coordinate requirements, and support practical improvements that are sustainable after project close
• Coordinate readiness, communications, training, documentation, stakeholder feedback, and handoff activities with the accountable business owners
• Capture lessons learned and recommend fit-for-purpose improvements to project practices, workflows, templates, and governance

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex business or functional projects with cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong command of project management fundamentals, including planning, governance, scope, schedule, cost awareness, risks, issues, dependencies, change control, and status reporting
• Ability to translate broad business objectives into clear workstreams, deliverables, ownership, and measurable outcomes
• Executive-ready written and verbal communication, with the judgment to tailor detail for sponsors, leaders, and project teams
• Proven facilitation, negotiation, and influence skills in matrixed environments where authority may be indirect
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize incomplete or conflicting information and drive decisions
• Experience with business process analysis, operational improvement, organizational change, or business transformation initiatives
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work with limited direction, and bring structure to ambiguous situations
• Proficiency with standard project planning, collaboration, reporting, presentation, and documentation tools
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent credential
• Experience supporting globally distributed teams or multi-region initiatives
• Experience working within a formal PMO, portfolio governance model, or strategic planning environment
• Technical aptitude sufficient to partner effectively with IT, data, systems, security, and vendor teams when a business project has technical dependencies
• Working knowledge of portfolio or strategic portfolio management tools
• Experience with process mapping, requirements elicitation, change management, or operational readiness