Manager, Strategic Initiatives

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and enhance a team of project managers focused on delivering high-impact strategic initiatives.

• Personally oversee intricate, highly visible projects sponsored by executives while functioning as a player-coach.

• Allocate tasks based on business priorities, project intricacy, team capacity, and developmental requirements.

• Establish project management standards, templates, governance routines, and reporting expectations.

• Collaborate with the Director of Strategic Initiatives on portfolio planning, prioritization, resource distribution, and departmental goals.

• Spearhead the identification, scoping, planning, and comprehensive delivery of strategic initiatives.

• Convert executive objectives into project charters, requirements, work plans, milestones, success metrics, and governance frameworks.

• Oversee deliverables, timelines, budgets, dependencies, risks, issues, and business outcomes.

• Develop business cases, implementation strategies, and resource plans.

• Facilitate cross-functional planning and decision-making with executives, business leaders, technology teams, subject matter experts, and external partners.

• Manage communications with stakeholders and prepare executive-level reports.

• Drive the resolution of delivery obstacles and escalate decisions or resource limitations as necessary.

• Ensure operational readiness through communication, training, process documentation, transition planning, and post-implementation support.

• Monitor adoption, financial impact, operational enhancements, and other agreed-upon benefits.

• Utilize business analysis and process improvement techniques, such as requirements gathering, process mapping, data analysis, interviews, and policy evaluations.

• Lead project closure activities, lessons learned, benefit handoff, documentation, and transition to business owners.

• Maintain visibility across the strategic initiatives portfolio, including status updates, capacity, priorities, interdependencies, and delivery risks.

• Assist in initiative intake and prioritization.

• Coordinate sequencing across initiatives and manage shared resources and dependencies.

• Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, roadmaps, schedules, RAID logs, decision logs, and governance documents.

• Prepare for and lead governance meetings, steering committees, working sessions, and executive updates.

• Monitor portfolio health and recommend corrective actions, reprioritization, or escalation as needed.

• Continuously enhance delivery methods and departmental processes.

• Lead or assist in acquisition integration planning and execution when assigned.

• Coordinate integration workstreams and system, process, and data migration initiatives.

• Evaluate acquired-company processes and suggest alignment with Trace3's operating models, policies, systems, and controls.

• Support requirements gathering, future-state process documentation, data validation, and business readiness.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in project, program, or strategic initiative management within Information Technology, Professional Services, or a similarly complex business environment.

• At least 3 years of direct experience in people leadership, including coaching project managers, managing performance, and developing team capabilities.

• Proven success operating as a player-coach while leading a team and directly delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives.

• Established ability to manage concurrent initiative portfolios, balancing resources and priorities, and providing portfolio-level reporting to senior leadership.

• A track record of delivering business and technology initiatives with measurable outcomes, including process, system, data, organizational, or integration-related changes.

• Strong understanding of project and program management methodologies, governance, requirements management, risk management, and organizational change management.

• PMP, PgMP, CSM, or a comparable project/program management certification is preferred.

• Strong business and financial acumen, including evaluating trade-offs, developing business cases, and linking execution to business outcomes.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage changing priorities, and make informed decisions in a dynamic environment.

• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex matters to C-level executives and non-technical audiences.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, demonstrating strong judgment, follow-through, time management, and problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency in project and portfolio management tools and Microsoft applications, including Visio, Project, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match.

• 529 College Savings Plan.

• Health Savings Account.

• Life Insurance.

• Long-Term Disability.

• Competitive Compensation.

• Training and development programs.

• Major offices stocked with snacks and beverages.

• A collaborative and engaging culture.

• Work-life balance and generous paid time off.

• Variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, may be available for certain positions.