Senior Project Manager

The Project Manager leads the daily delivery of strategic initiatives, ensuring that each project is executed efficiently and aligns with organizational goals. This role orchestrates end-to-end delivery across multiple teams and departments that contribute to the initiative.

Responsibilities:

• Define and support project governance to enable efficient delivery across all involved teams.
• Maintain control over delivery activities, ensuring compliance with IT controls, and manage project risks.
• Contribute to operationalizing benefit management within the initiative.

To achieve these goals, the Project Manager:

• Manages stakeholders to ensure that delivery teams receive the right information, requirements, guidance, and validation.
• Interfaces with portfolios, product owners, and contributing teams to keep the project roadmap relevant, prioritized, and feasible.
• Ensures coordination and synchronization of project features and milestones across all involved teams.
• Participates in quarterly business reviews and quality planning processes, prepares for these reviews, and follows up on outcomes.
• Reports on project progress, champions the initiative throughout its lifecycle, and ensures capacity, funding, and prioritization.
• Acts as the interface between portfolio governance and delivering teams.

Operational Scope:

• Oversees full delivery teams across all contributing departments.
• Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of designated initiatives.

Vision and Objectives Alignment:

• Maintains focus on the intended outcomes of the initiative.
• Supports and reviews the project's vision and objectives throughout its lifecycle.

Governance and Reporting:

• Reports project progress to relevant stakeholders.
• Serves as a liaison between portfolio governance and delivery teams, providing evidence of good governance practices when requested.
• Co-presents dashboards and risk assessments to governance bodies as needed.

Lifecycle Management:

• Ensures that project features are created, prioritized, and continuously maintained, collaborating closely with architects, analysts, and product owners.
• Manages the evolution of the project roadmap, supporting refinement related to non-functional requirements, dependencies, and business value creation.
• Assists in managing changes to scope, cost, timing, or prioritization, ensuring such changes are considered against their impact on the business case and risk profile.