Project Manager III

Tranzeal Incorporated is recruiting for a confidential client seeking a technical Project Manager and Scrum Master to lead delivery of SpendIQ Phase 2 and a predictive modeling implementation. The role owns project scope, schedule, budgets, governance, reporting and stakeholder coordination while facilitating agile delivery and supporting adoption and value tracking.

Responsibilities:

• Project leadership: Own end-to-end technical delivery of SpendIQ Phase 2 and Sourcing & Selection
• Execution and cadence: Set up and enforce a consistent execution cadence with development leadership, including release readiness and staging/deployment checklists
• Stakeholder engagement: Partner with business leads, the business PM, product owners and executive sponsors. Prepare Steering Committee materials and keep cross-functional teams aligned
• Role clarity: Maintain the RACI between the technical Project Manager and business Project Manager to avoid duplicate ownership
• Project budget and financial management: Own the budgets for both projects end to end. That includes building and maintaining budget and forecast trackers on the standard template, reconciling actuals against forecast, managing the monthly forecast cadence ahead of actuals posting, tracking CapEx/OpEx allocations and vendor/SOW spend, and preparing Project Change Requests (PCRs) for scope or budget variances. Partner with Finance on submissions and clearly explain variances to leadership
• Schedule management: Build and maintain integrated project plans, including data ingestion, pipeline readiness, release and go-live timelines
• Vendor and Technology coordination: Manage vendor and internal technology implementation partner deliverables against SOW commitments
• Governance and intake: Coordinate required reviews (e.g., AI intake, Cybersecurity, ARB, SSO/access) and maintain audit readiness
• Adoption and value: Support UAT, training, onboarding and value tracking with Finance and Procurement users
• Risk and issue management: Maintain RAID logs, escalate early and drive mitigation plans
• Reporting: Produce accurate weekly status reports and dashboards (overall status, accomplishments, next steps, risks and milestones)
• Documentation: Maintain project documentation in SharePoint and JIRA
• Agile ceremonies: Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews/demos and retrospectives for the SpendIQ and Sourcing & Selection delivery teams
• Backlog management: Partner with product owners to keep backlogs prioritized and refined, with clear user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done
• Sprint tracking: Ensure all work is tracked in JIRA. Maintain sprint boards, velocity, burndown and release metrics to support accurate forecasting and status reporting
• Impediment removal: Identify and remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and escalate when needed
• Team coaching: Coach team members on agile practices and balance agile rigor with practical tracking and reporting needs, without adding unnecessary overhead
• Continuous improvement: Turn retrospective outcomes into concrete process improvements

Requirements:

• 8+ years of IT project management experience, ideally with financial, procurement or ERP systems and enterprise SaaS implementations
• Experience delivering AI, ML, analytics or data platform projects (e.g., data pipelines, BigQuery/GCP, agent or prompt accuracy testing)
• Experience implementing SaaS platforms, including vendor management, SSO/identity integration and release management
• Solid understanding of procurement, sourcing, and accounting processes
• Experience with ServiceNow, JIRA/Confluence, Apptio/TargetProcess, Oracle EBS/Cloud and Coupa
• proven project budget and financial management experience, including building and managing project budgets, forecasting against actuals, CapEx/OpEx tracking, vendor/SOW spend management, and Project Change Requests (PCRs)
• 3+ years as a Scrum Master on agile delivery teams, facilitating ceremonies, managing backlogs and tracking sprints in JIRA
• Proven track record of performing both Project Manager and Scrum Master responsibilities at the same time across multiple projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive-level status reporting
• Proven ability to build stakeholder relationships and manage expectations
• Product experience and Phenom experience are a plus
• PMP certification required or strongly preferred
• A Scrum certification (CSM, PSM or SAFe SSM) is required or strongly preferred