Senior Project Manager Key Initiatives

The Senior Project Manager - Key Initiatives within the Product Management Office (PMO) leads high-visibility cross-functional initiatives supporting Marketing Solutions. This role drives complex programs spanning Product Pricing Finance and FP&A Commercial Data Engineering Media Compliance Procurement and client-facing teams ensuring initiatives are delivered on time aligned to business priorities and executed with operational and financial rigor.

This role combines project leadership stakeholder management systems thinking and financial acumen to coordinate initiatives such as pricing and PWO process improvements financial planning and forecasting business case development vendor onboarding platform enhancements compliance-driven programs new product launches and operational scaling. As a trusted partner the Senior Project Manager brings structure clarity and momentum to initiatives critical to growth margin improvement resiliency and execution excellence.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Program & Project Leadership  (20%)

Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic Marketing Solutions initiatives from intake and planning through execution and stabilization. Manage scope timelines dependencies budgets and delivery risk across multiple concurrent initiatives. Apply hybrid delivery approaches appropriate to each initiative and coordinate work across business finance product technology and operations teams.

Financial Planning Pricing & Business Operations  (15%)

Partner with Pricing Finance FP&A Procurement Product and Commercial teams to coordinate pricing PWO forecasting and financial planning initiatives. Support business cases investment requests cost-benefit assessments scenario analysis and funding recommendations. Track budgets vendor spend forecast assumptions financial risks and expected outcomes. Coordinate review and approval processes for PWOs SOWs vendor engagements and funding requests. Translate financial information into clear decisions actions and executive-ready insights.

Cross-Functional Coordination & Dependency Management  (15%)

Act as the central coordination point for initiatives spanning multiple teams systems and approval processes. Identify and manage dependencies risks handoffs and sequencing. Proactively surface conflicts capacity constraints data gaps and decision needs. Ensure work enters execution with clear scope ownership assumptions success criteria and required approvals.

Stakeholder Communication & Executive Visibility  (15%)

Serve as a primary point of contact for initiative stakeholders and leadership. Provide concise status reports milestone tracking financial and delivery risk assessments decision logs and executive readouts. Translate delivery and financial progress into business impact and decision-ready insights. Facilitate working sessions budget reviews steering discussions and leadership checkpoints.

Operational Readiness & Execution Governance  (15%)

Establish appropriate operational and financial guardrails documentation controls and readiness criteria. Define go/no-go checkpoints validation steps approval paths and escalation protocols. Maintain RAID and decision logs drive mitigation actions and support post-launch stabilization and handoff to steady-state ownership.

Change Management & Adoption Support  (10%)

Coordinate rollout enablement documentation and adoption for new processes capabilities vendors platforms or financial workflows. Partner with impacted teams to ensure changes are understood adopted and operationalized. Identify adoption and control risks early and close readiness gaps.

PMO Contribution & Continuous Improvement  (10%)

Contribute to PMO standards templates and best practices for intake planning financial governance and delivery. Improve repeatable processes for business cases PWO administration budget tracking status reporting and executive decision support. Mentor partners on delivery discipline risk management and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications :

Education

• Bachelors degree in Business Finance Accounting Marketing Information Systems Engineering or a related field
• PMP Agile FP&A or related certification preferred but not required

Experience

• 10 years of experience managing complex cross-functional projects or programs
• Proven success delivering initiatives spanning finance pricing product technology data commercial or operations teams
• Experience partnering with Finance FP&A Pricing Procurement or Business Operations
• Experience supporting budgeting forecasting investment prioritization or financial review processes
• Experience developing or coordinating business cases cost-benefit analyses ROI assessments and executive funding recommendations
• Experience managing vendor-related financial processes including PWOs SOWs contracts approvals and budget tracking
• Experience working in marketing media data or technology-enabled services environments
• Comfort operating in fast-paced evolving environments with competing priorities and shared accountability

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Strong project and program management capabilities across Agile hybrid and waterfall delivery models
• Strong business and financial acumen including the ability to interpret budgets forecasts pricing models financial assumptions and investment proposals
• Ability to evaluate financial and operational tradeoffs and connect initiative outcomes to revenue margin cost savings efficiency or risk reduction
• Working knowledge of variance analysis scenario planning value realization and financial governance
• Advanced Excel skills; experience organizing and analyzing financial and operational data
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills including executive-level reporting and decision support
• Ability to lead without direct authority and drive alignment across diverse functional teams
• Strong organizational skills attention to detail judgment and follow-through
• Experience managing risks dependencies approvals and cross-team handoffs
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira Confluence Teams and
• Structured problem solver who can navigate ambiguity and translate high-level goals into executable plans

Additional Information :

Salary Range: $130000 - $150000

Position is eligible for an annual bonus incentive program

Applications will be accepted until the posted deadline of November 10 2026 or until a sufficient candidate pool has been identified.

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