Senior Manager, Project Management Office

Project Manager III

Project management coordination supervision and strategic planning

• Supervises and leads the unified Project Management Office setting vision standards and direction to ensure cohesive mission-aligned project and portfolio execution.
• Onboard and train new project management team members such that standard operating procedures are implemented with fidelity.
• Oversees Center-wide intake prioritization and tiered governance to ensure strategic alignment transparency and effective decision-making.
• Ensures consistent high-quality delivery across Managed and Tracked projects including research implementation and development using a hybrid Agile-Waterfall framework that supports both predictability and adaptability.
• Directs centralized resource planning and utilization maintaining balanced capacity across teams and proactively addressing cross-functional dependencies.
• Provides clear data-driven portfolio reportingincluding Power BI dashboards and executive summariesto support strategic oversight and timely action.
• Builds strong partnerships across Implementation Development and Center leadership to align priorities manage expectations and ensure coordinated delivery.
• Drives PMO maturity and continuous improvement through retrospectives process refinement and adoption of best practices.
• Leads enterprise risk issue and change management practices to ensure early identification escalation and resolution of challenges impacting delivery.
• Conducts project meetings and communicates project status with partners project team members vendors and supervisors.
• Create and revise policies and procedures; this can include updating existing policies as well as creating new ones.
• Establish and maintain relationships with business units and key partner groups to understand their business needs ensure alignment on objectives and ongoing buy-in across all project activities.
• Translate business objectives into projects with clearly defined scope timing deliverables resources and key measures of success.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation. Provide regular progress reports including status updates performance metrics and project evaluations.
• Proactively manage and communicate ongoing changes in project scope identify potential crises and devise contingency plans.
• Lead and mentor project managers and team members. Provide guidance and support to ensure effective project execution and resolve any issues that arise.
• Identify and implement best practices for project management and process improvement. Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the project management team.
• Contribute to strategic planning for project management workflows and practices including but not limited to change leadership process mapping sprint development and project documentation.

Project management operations

• Develop detailed project plans including scope objectives timelines and resource allocation. Oversee the execution of projects ensuring that milestones are met and deliverables are achieved.
• Lead project meetings and drive project issues through to resolution.
• Develop and deliver progress reports proposals requirements documentation and presentations. Meets with partners to determine customer expectations regarding the project.
• Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies. Monitor and address risks and issues to ensure minimal impact on project delivery.
• Facilitates the analysis and resolution of issues that impede project progress.
• Support development and enhancement of project budgeting and FTE management workflows for development projects.

Project management strategy and quality assurance

• Actively manage the development project global view calendaring system to ensure capacity remains at optimal levels across all development teams.
• Lead the development of best practices and tools for project management.
• Conduct post project assessments and evaluations.
• Create recommendations to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Ensure comprehensive and seamless project post-implementation transition.
• Create and implement UAT processes and tests for project health and governance.
• Advance PMO wide systems to support transparency of projects risk mitigation and milestone reporting.

Other duties as assigned

Will travel for assigned business purpose minimally.

$105000 - $115000

• Education: Bachelors degree in Business Administration or a related field. PMP PRINCE2 or similar project management certification is preferred.
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management with a proven track record of managing large-scale or complex implementations and a team of project managers.
• Skills:
  • Strong project management skills with experience in planning executing and closing projects.
  • Excellent leadership supervision and team management abilities.
  • Proficiency in project management software and tools (e.g. MS Project Asana Jira) and project management approaches (e.g. Agile Kanban etc.).
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work effectively under pressure.
  • Detail-oriented and highly organized.
  • Proactive and able to anticipate and address potential challenges.
  • Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across departments and with various stakeholders.

In order to be considered you must upload your cover letter and resume.

Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.