Senior Manager - Project Management

As a Senior Manager Project Management, you will drive large-scale initiatives in both size and budget with high complexity and both financial and organizational risk. You will have responsibility to lead the governance and management of the enterprise AI initiative portfolio, ensuring that AI investments are strategically aligned, appropriately prioritized, effectively governed, and delivering measurable business value. You will oversee and manage internal and external resources, both directly and indirectly. You will have full authority for personnel actions and extensive knowledge of department processes.

This role will establish and operate the processes required to manage AI initiatives across their full lifecycle, from idea intake and prioritization through experimentation, development, deployment, adoption, and value realization. Working across business functions, technology teams, AI product owners, finance, risk, data, and executive leadership, the Senior Program Manager will provide a single portfolio-level view of AI investments, progress, risks, dependencies, and realized value. The ideal candidate combines strong enterprise program management capabilities with portfolio governance, financial and value management, executive communication, and sufficient understanding of AI and digital product delivery to effectively challenge teams and drive outcomes. indirectly. You will have full authority for personnel actions and extensive knowledge of department processes.

Responsibilities:

• Drive large-scale initiatives in both size and budget with high complexity with both financial and organizational risk.
• Direct and manage project development from beginning to end. Set and manage project expectations with team members and project stakeholders.
• Perform root cause analysis on gaps, identify waste, and partner with leadership to drive sustainable corrective action.
• Collaborate with organizational leaders to align with strategy and objectives and to define project scope, goals and deliverables. Liaise with project stakeholders on an on-going basis.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations including executive level presentations, communications and reporting.
• Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes.
• Assess and prioritize new demand intake.
• Recommend and standardize new project management processes and governance.
• Manage changes in project scope, identify potential concerns, and devise contingency plans.
• Estimate resources and participants needed to achieve project goals. Determine and assess the need for additional staff or consultants and make appropriate staffing adjustments during project cycle. Negotiate with other department managers for acquisition of required personnel.
• Develop employees to be self-sufficient in continuous improvement tools.
• Function as leader for continuous improvement events.
• Align activities with corporate goals around safety, quality, delivery and cost.
• Drive a strategic mindset to envision future and translate to tangible plans.
• Develop and enable process improvements and standards of excellence.
• Enable innovative solutions.
• Highlight emerging trends, portfolio concentration, resource constraints, and systemic risks.
• Develop monthly and quarterly executive portfolio reviews.
• Facilitate to ensure limited AI capacity and investment are allocated toward the highest-value enterprise opportunities.
• Partner with AI Product Owners and Finance to establish baseline metrics and expected benefits before significant investment.
• Track expected, committed, realized, and validated value across the portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Business or related degree required.
• PMP Certification preferred
• 10 years of experience in business and project management principles, including strategic planning, resource allocation, and production methods in a large-scale project management capacity.
• 5 years of proven management experience leading and developing a team of resources.
• Ability to build and lead strong business relationships with other functional areas to best support mutual objectives.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze workflow and processes to provide excellent service to internal and external customers.
• Strong understanding of project management techniques and Agile methodologies.
• Understanding of business and IT processes.
• Ability to overcome difficult situations and conflicts.
• Ability to apply professional principles and business judgement to solve problems.
• Ability to influence outcomes and broad processes beyond individual function.
• Ability to spot key risks upfront and mitigate.
• Ability to bring quick focus to key issues and priorities.
• Ability to travel 0-25%

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