Senior Project Manager Mergers & Acquisitions - Hybrid

What You Will Do

As our Senior Project Managers you will manage and lead enterprise-wide, cross-functional strategic initiatives and are typically assigned to large-scale, high-impact Mergers and Acquisition projects with moderate to high risk and complexity. You will direct the daily activities of team members on multiple projects to ensure they provide high-quality and cost-effective services. You will also design and develop new approaches to project management. 

• Partner with Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Lead(s) on cross‑functional, high‑impact, high‑profile programs/projects to deliver IT portion of integrations leading to revenue and synergy achievement success.
• Lead assigned projects ensuring delivery on-time, within scope and within budget
• Define and track project milestones while developing, maintaining, and reporting on an overall integrated delivery plan with resource capacity and actuals analysis
• Liaise with resource managers to ensure resources are available to support the timelines within the project schedule
• Utilize risk management strategies to actively manage project risks that may impact project cost, quality, scope or schedule
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
• Review and approve forecasts associated with your project
• Create business case financial models
• Forecast, monitor and report on project financials, and maintain financials in project management tools
• Manage change requests by assessing impact to scope, schedule and cost; and communicate with key stakeholders
• Liaise with the supplier management groups as needed on supplier engagement, quality of services, experience and cost 
• Partner with the project team to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, standards, procedures, and associated documentation including but not limited to computer systems validation, SOX, and PM standards
• Continually update relevant business stakeholders of project status and periodically publish project status reports
• Represent the project in various project governance and inter-departmental forums
• Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case
• Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value
• Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria and deliver project to meet those metrics and criteria
• Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology compliance standards set by the company
• Assist, share learning, and mentor others within the PMO regarding standards, organizational understanding, and relationship building to promote the successful delivery of projects

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
• MBA preferred
• 6+ years of work experience required
• Mergers & Acquisitions project management experience strongly preferred
• PMP certification desired
• Agile/Scrum related experience a plus
• Proven record of planning and delivering complex projects
• Experience managing remote/global project teams desired
• Experience and proficiency in Microsoft Project preferred
• Demonstrated experience in full project management lifecycle for software/maintenance/ development/ implementation projects and IT methodologies (ITIL)
• Experience with projects in multiple technologies and functions; demonstrated experience managing customer relationships