Senior Project Manager

Job Description

The Senior Project Manager leads the delivery of complex technical initiatives within Corporate IT, ensuring disciplined execution, effective coordination, and high-quality outcomes. The role combines a strong IT background with delivery leadership and controlled ownership, with accountability extending through delivery, go-live, and early stabilization, followed by a structured transition to long-term application ownership roles.

Project Delivery & Execution

• Lead end-to-end delivery of technical projects within approved scope, timeline, and budget.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, and schedules.
• Ensure delivery aligns with approved objectives, success criteria, and quality expectations.

Technical Oversight

• Understand solution architecture, integrations, and technical dependencies.
• Ensure implementations comply with enterprise architecture, security, and IT standards.
• Validate delivery approaches and challenge vendor designs when required.

Cross-Department Coordination

• Coordinate with IT teams and business departments to align responsibilities and dependencies.
• Follow up on action items and ensure timely closure.
• Facilitate effective communication and decision-making across stakeholders.

Vendor & Delivery Ownership

• Monitor vendor delivery against agreed milestones and deliverables.
• Ensure vendor outputs are complete, integrated, documented, and ready for acceptance.

Risk, Issue & Change Management

• Identify and manage delivery, technical, and dependency-related risks.
• Track issues and ensure effective resolution.
• Assess and manage change requests, including impact on scope, timeline, cost, and solution integrity.

Governance, Reporting & Executive Communication

• Ensure adherence to delivery governance, policies, and standards.
• Prepare periodic Corporate IT status reports, dashboards, and action tracking logs, and follow up on actions across stakeholders.
• Develop executive-level presentations covering progress, risks, decisions, and required actions.

Go-Live, Stabilization & Ownership Transition

• Ensure readiness for go-live and deployment.
• Own delivery execution, coordination, and early post-go-live stabilization.
• Lead structured handover to the Application Specialist / Product role, transferring knowledge and ownership for long-term operations and continuous improvement.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in technical project management or IT delivery roles.
• Strong ownership mindset and accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects across multiple departments.
• PMP certification preferred (PRINCE2 / Agile certifications are an advantage).