Senior Project Manager [AQ-13249]

Partnering with Aquent, a pioneering financial services organization is actively seeking an innovative and client-focused professional to join their ranks. This dynamic company is shaping the future of the financial sector by delivering cutting-edge solutions and fostering a culture of unparalleled excellence. This role offers the opportunity to drive strategic transformation and influence critical enterprise-wide initiatives during a period of significant growth.

About the role

As a seasoned project management expert, you will drive the seamless integration of external portfolios into robust enterprise management, risk, and procurement frameworks. You will coordinate complex, cross-functional workstreams, conduct crucial gap analyses, and design interim processes to lay the groundwork for long-term success. Your contributions will directly influence strategic alignment, operational efficiency, risk mitigation, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of enterprise third-party integration programs across multiple concurrent workstreams, coordinating activities with diverse teams including Vendor Management, Third Party Risk Management, Legal, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, and other risk and control partners.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, ensuring precise alignment with the overall integration roadmap and leadership directives.
• Proactively track and manage interdependencies across workstreams, escalating risks and decisions to ensure smooth progress and timely resolution.
• Coordinate in-depth risk and process-based gap/variance analysis between current state practices and enterprise requirements.
• Support the design and documentation of interim processes and oversight approaches to effectively mitigate identified gaps ahead of full integration.
• Coordinate comprehensive analysis of third-party portfolios to identify overlapping or duplicate suppliers, align risk tiering and segmentation, and uncover opportunities for rationalization or consolidation.
• Establish and maintain critical synergy tracking artifacts (e.g., supplier overlaps, cost opportunities, risk reduction indicators), diligently tracking progress against targets set by leadership.
• Prepare senior management-ready integration reporting, including status updates, key risks and mitigations, dependency and decision tracking, and portfolio and synergy summaries.
• Assist in the preparation of materials for integration governance forums and senior leadership reviews, ensuring clear and concise communication.
• Facilitate working sessions and integration checkpoints to maintain consistent alignment and collaboration across all stakeholders.
• Coordinate activities related to vendor and risk data integration, including inventory alignment and data readiness.
• Support coordination of activities involving enterprise procurement systems and related vendor data.
• Ensure transparency and continuity by maintaining structured documentation using standard project management and documentation tools.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager, including supporting complex, cross-functional integration initiatives.
• Strong experience managing multiple parallel workstreams as a senior individual contributor.
• Proven ability to conduct and coordinate gap/variance analysis and support interim operating model design.
• Experience working with or adjacent to vendor management, procurement, supplier or third-party portfolios, or risk/compliance-related programs.
• Demonstrated ability to produce clear, executive-level integration reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in standard project management and documentation tools.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Post-acquisition or large-scale business integration experience.
• Exposure to third-party risk management concepts.
• Familiarity with enterprise procurement/vendor platforms.
• Experience tracking integration synergies (cost, efficiency, risk reduction).
• Regulated industry experience.

Benefits

Aquent Talent offers eligible talent access to amazing benefits, including:

• Subsidized health, vision, and dental plans.
• Paid sick leave.
• Retirement plans with a match.
• Free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.