Sr. Project Manager

Stand8 Technology Consulting provides end-to-end IT solutions to enterprise partners across the United States. The Sr. Project Manager serves as a strategic leader responsible for managing complex enterprise technology initiatives from planning through implementation while partnering with executive leadership and various stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple complex enterprise technology projects through the full project lifecycle, ensuring delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders by aligning technology initiatives with strategic organizational objectives
• Develop and manage project charters, integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, risk registers, issue logs, communication plans, and executive reporting
• Facilitate governance meetings, identify project risks and dependencies, and present recommendations to executive leadership
• Coordinate cross-functional technical teams, vendors, consultants, and business stakeholders to successfully execute project objectives
• Lead organizational change management initiatives including stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness assessments, training coordination, transition planning, and user adoption
• Facilitate business process improvement workshops to identify operational efficiencies and service enhancements
• Support enterprise portfolio planning, project prioritization, resource planning, and PMO governance activities
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies, governance standards, documentation requirements, and organizational best practices
• Develop executive dashboards, status reports, presentations, and performance metrics that communicate project and portfolio health
• Mentor project managers and stakeholders by promoting project management best practices, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, customer service, and operational excellence across project teams

Requirements:

• Five (5) or more years of progressively responsible experience managing complex enterprise technology projects or programs
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise software implementations, digital transformation initiatives, infrastructure modernization, cloud migrations, cybersecurity initiatives, enterprise applications, or business process improvement efforts
• The ideal candidate will possess a combination of technical project leadership, business relationship management, and organizational change management experience
• Proven experience serving as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and business stakeholders, translating business needs into successful technology solutions
• Strong experience leading organizational change management initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, executive communications, organizational readiness, training, and user adoption
• Experience facilitating executive governance, portfolio prioritization, strategic planning, and cross-functional decision-making
• Excellent leadership, communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and executive presentation skills
• Experience managing consultants, vendors, contracts, and third-party service providers
• Experience with Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools such as Planview AdaptiveWork (Clarizen), Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Public Administration, Project Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly desirable
• Organizational change management experience is highly desirable
• Demonstrated experience leading business process improvement initiatives is a plus
• Experience leading enterprise digital transformation initiatives
• Experience supporting cloud modernization and enterprise application implementations
• Experience with data analytics, business intelligence, and technology portfolio governance