Project Manager - Media Supply Chain

About the role

Stand8 provides end‑to‑end IT solutions to enterprise partners across the United States and internationally. The Senior Project Manager – Media Supply Chain (MSC) will orchestrate work across multiple technology and business workstreams supporting transformation of the media supply chain, with particular focus on unified workflows and fulfillment workflows. The role manages software‑development initiatives throughout the full delivery lifecycle, including scope, resources, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, financials, testing, release readiness, and operational transition. It partners with business and technology leads, product owners, engineering teams, architects, operations, quality assurance, and third‑party vendors to deliver outcomes against agreed milestones while improving documentation, workflows, toolsets, methodologies, and operational practices.

Location & Work Type

Location: New York, NY — Work Type: Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage activities across multiple MSC technology and business workstreams, emphasizing unified and fulfillment workflows.
• Lead program and project management for software‑development initiatives from planning through implementation, stabilization, and operational handoff.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, roadmaps, schedules, milestones, resource plans, and cross‑workstream dependency maps.
• Facilitate core project activities against deadlines and ensure owners, priorities, decisions, and deliverables are clearly understood and tracked.
• Partner with workstream leads to define scope, requirements, delivery approach, success measures, and technology solutions that address business and operational needs.
• Manage the full delivery lifecycle, including discovery, requirements, design, development, integration, testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), deployment, and hypercare.
• Facilitate test planning, execution, defect triage, UAT coordination, readiness reviews, and stakeholder acceptance.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies through mitigation or closure; escalate material concerns with clear options and recommendations.
• Create and present concise program status, executive summaries, dashboards, and communications for project teams, sponsors, and steering committees.
• Establish and operate effective project governance, including recurring team meetings, decision forums, status cadences, action tracking, and escalation paths.
• Manage scope and changes through established change‑control processes, evaluating impacts to timeline, cost, resources, quality, and operations.
• Apply change‑management and communication practices that support adoption, training, process transition, and sustained operational use.
• Build strong relationships with business sponsors, key stakeholders, technology leads, and delivery teams to solve problems, build consensus, and achieve objectives.
• Coordinate onshore and offshore internal and external resources; clarify roles and responsibilities and secure appropriate capacity to meet planned timeframes.
• Act as a quality‑control advocate, ensuring deliverables are complete, accurate, traceable to requirements, and ready for stakeholder review and approval.
• Manage external software vendors, service providers, and systems integrators, including deliverables, dependencies, performance, and Statement of Work support where applicable.
• Track project budgets, forecasts, resource consumption, CAPEX/OPEX alignment, and other required technology‑finance measures.
• Adapt to and consistently use project‑management toolsets and methodologies while identifying practical opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Maintain and improve project documentation, delivery workflows, and operational practices so that project outcomes are repeatable and sustainable.
• Develop strategy, roadmap, and decision presentations in partnership with technology and business leads.
• Produce and maintain an integrated program plan and milestone schedule covering the end‑to‑end implementation lifecycle.
• Maintain a current roadmap, resource plan, dependency map, and prioritized action plan for each workstream.
• Maintain RAID and decision logs with owners, due dates, mitigations, escalation status, and closure evidence.
• Prepare executive and working‑team status reports, dashboards, steering materials, and program communications.
• Develop and maintain scope, change‑control, stakeholder‑communication, and organizational change‑management artifacts.
• Coordinate the test strategy and plan, UAT schedule, defect and readiness reporting, acceptance tracking, and deployment and hypercare activities.
• Maintain complete project documentation and recommend improvements to MSC workflows, toolsets, methodologies, and operational practices.

Benefits

• Medical coverage and Health Savings Account (HSA) through Anthem
• Dental, Vision, and various ancillary coverages through Unum
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Paid‑time‑off options
• Company‑paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discount programs through ADP WorkforceNow

Pay

The base range for this contract position is $70 – $80 per hour, depending on experience. Pay ranges are determined by role, level, and location, with individual compensation based on work location, skills, experience, and relevant education or training.