Lead Project Manager – Shared Services Technology

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage comprehensive project plans, timelines, milestones, testing strategies, and resource allocation for multiple concurrent projects.
• Facilitate and lead high-priority meetings with stakeholders at all levels, driving consensus, clarifying objectives, and maintaining project momentum.
• Oversee and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including requirements, test plans, and stakeholder signoffs, while ensuring critical requirements are identified, aligned with business and technology needs, and effectively managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate with business analysts to translate high-level business goals into actionable tasks, test cases, and deliverables.
• Proactively identify, escalate, and manage project risks, scope deviations, dependencies, and potential blockers, ensuring transparency, timely resolution, and effective communication of changes and impacts across teams and systems to safeguard project timelines.
• Collaborate with Technical Leads, internal and external partners to ensure technical feasibility, integration points, and solution alignment, including understanding of system architecture and dependencies.
• Adapt to a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities while leading and supporting project teams which could include off-hours to ensure timely progress, testing, and successful releases.

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or minimum 5+ years’ experience in a Project Manager role with proven success delivering projects exceeding $500k.
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint).
• Experience managing Agile/Kanban teams and projects in Jira.
• Background in overseeing data-driven projects in complex integrated environments with systems of record and data tables, including experience interpreting KPIs and data quality metrics.
• Experience in gathering business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Experience in Leading through Influence and navigating difficult conversations.
• Experience uncovering, identifying and escalating risk related to technology project implementations

Preferred Qualifications

• CAPM or PMP Certification
• CSM Certification
• Familiarity with Human Resources, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Corporate Real Estate domains, including related applications and Workday modules.
• Experience with Human Resource and enterprise systems such as Workday, ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align, Confluence & NICE Incentive Compensation.

Benefits

• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Discounted Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Banking and Other Discount Programs
• Commuter Savings
• Legal and Financial Services
• Other Perks and Benefits…