Senior Project Manager, Strategic Projects (Open to Remote)

About the role

In a rapidly evolving environment, book publishers face interesting and complex business challenges that require innovation and change. Within Penguin Random House, the Strategic Projects group partners with operational and publishing groups to address many of these challenges. We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager with strong business analysis skills to deliver results on our most complex and mission-critical strategic projects for marketing, sales, technology, supply chain, and operations, spanning across multiple lines of our business.

Responsibilities

• Lead discussions with business leaders and stakeholders to define project scope, goals, business requirements, and deliverables
• Lead cross-functional teams from across the organization to execute multi-threaded projects
• Create project plans, work breakdown structures, and communications to ensure projects stay on track
• Manage roll-out, documentation, and hand off resultant systems and processes to relevant teams
• Provide ongoing communication and status updates to support business leaders, stakeholders, and the Strategic Project portfolio
• Lead project evaluations, retrospectives, and other assessments of results
• Leverage project management tools such as Jira, Monday.com, and MS Planner to manage teams and communicate statuses

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management, consulting, or other relevant experience, with demonstrated success managing complex cross-functional initiatives
• Background in any of the following industries a plus but not required:
  • Publishing
  • Entertainment
  • Consumer Products
• Experience implementing SAP or other ERP
• Experience implementing other enterprise applications a plus, such as Salesforce; Jira or other Atlassian products
• Experience in process and technology change
• Ability to learn and document business processes quickly and efficiently
• Ability to understand and analyze processes to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Strong relationship-building skills and experience leveraging relationships in a matrixed environment to drive results
• Comfortable working across all levels of the organization (individual contributors to senior leadership)

Pay

The salary range for this position is $100,000 to $120,000.