Senior Project Manager
McGraw Hill · United States · 4 days ago
RemoteRemoteProject Management$106k–$160k/yrFull-time
What you'll do
- Lead large, complex enterprise programs or portfolios aligned with strategic business objectives.
- Own the full program lifecycle from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, stabilization, and value realization.
- Define and govern integrated roadmaps, master schedules, critical paths, dependencies, resource plans, and delivery strategies across business and technology workstreams.
- Maintain end-to-end accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk management, and business outcomes.
- Lead enterprise-wide transformations and implementations involving ERP, CRM, ecommerce, revenue management, digital platforms, and enterprise data solutions.
- Establish and manage program governance frameworks, including Steering Committees, stage gates, change control, financial oversight, escalations, and executive decision-making processes.
- Ensure adherence to PMO standards, SDLC controls, security, compliance, audit requirements, and delivery best practices.
- Own RAID management, proactively identifying, mitigating, escalating, and resolving program risks, issues, actions, and decisions.
- Drive execution excellence across all delivery phases, including design, build, testing, deployment, release readiness, and post-go-live support.
- Serve as the primary liaison to executive sponsors, providing concise reporting, actionable recommendations, transparent program health metrics, and value realization updates.
- Build alignment across business and technology stakeholders, influencing decisions and driving consensus within a complex matrixed organization.
- Lead global cross-functional delivery teams spanning business, IT, Engineering, Architecture, Finance, Security, Operations, Data, Change Management, and external partners.
- Apply Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, and SAFe methodologies, tailoring delivery approaches to program complexity while balancing governance and execution needs.
- Establish and leverage program performance metrics, dashboards, forecasting, and risk analytics to provide predictive insights and support informed decision-making.
What you bring to the role
- 10–12+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale technology and business transformation programs.
- Proven success delivering complex digital transformation initiatives in large, global organizations.
- Tier-1 consulting experience strongly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or relevant Master’s degree preferred.
- PMP required or strongly preferred.
- Agile / SAFe certifications a plus; PgMP a differentiator.
- Experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud, Oracle E-Business Suite, Salesforce, Zuora Revenue Management, Oracle Integration Cloud, Informatica IICS, UiPath (RPA), OCI, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS platforms.
- Experience working with Custom Application Development & Digital Platforms.
- PMO / PPM / Collaboration: Asana, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 365.
- Executive-level presence with strong communication and influencing skills.
- Structured, analytical problem-solving with root-cause orientation.
- Decisive leadership under pressure in high-risk, high-visibility environments.
- Proven ability to align and mobilize cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.