Senior Manager – PMO

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

📋 Description

• Lead and cultivate Argano’s Microsoft Project Coordination Team within the PMO.

• Direct project coordination throughout the entire project lifecycle, encompassing planning, execution, monitoring, transition, and closeout.

• Supervise project plans, schedules, budgets, resource allocations, dependencies, and overall project health.

• Facilitate coordination across functions and ensure effective stakeholder communication.

• Identify, monitor, and escalate project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource limitations.

• Promote the adoption of PMO governance, methodologies, standards, and delivery processes.

• Assist in the adoption of AI within the PMO and spearhead future process enhancement initiatives.

• Mentor, coach, train, and develop team members while ensuring accountability for team performance.

• Manage team staffing, capacity planning, workload distribution, and readiness.

• Oversee development and performance processes for direct reports, including competency evaluations, development plans, annual assessments, and input on compensation.

• Act as an escalation point for project, resource, process, and internal team issues.

• Conduct team meetings, resource and capacity evaluations, calibration discussions, and operational reviews.

• Support PMO talent management efforts, including hiring, onboarding, training, development, and offboarding.

• Collaborate with PMO leadership on governance, contract/SOW assessments, delivery readiness, process improvements, organizational planning, and team wellbeing.

• Execute project closeout and lessons-learned activities.

• Provide hands-on leadership as a Project Coordinator or Project Manager when necessary.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong leadership capabilities and extensive expertise in project management.

• Proficient in effective cross-functional collaboration.

• Experience in leading, coaching, and developing a Project Coordination team.

• Ability to manage project plans, schedules, budgets, resource allocations, and dependencies.

• Competence in identifying, tracking, escalating, mitigating, and resolving project risks and issues.

• Knowledge of PMO governance, methodologies, standards, and delivery processes.

• Subject matter expertise in supporting AI adoption within a PMO.

• Ability to oversee staffing, capacity planning, workload balancing, and resource readiness.

• Experience in employee development and performance management processes.

• Familiarity with project governance, contract/SOW assessments, delivery readiness, process enhancements, and organizational planning.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal-opportunity employment.

• 50% utilization target with a balance of leadership and hands-on delivery.