Senior Project Manager – APAC

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

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee medium to large-scale software delivery and implementation projects, including international collaborations.

• Establish and uphold a structured delivery framework, governance cadence, and project controls throughout the project lifecycle.

• Define and manage project scope in collaboration with key stakeholders.

• Develop and actively maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and critical path items.

• Take ownership of RAID management, which involves identifying, documenting, assessing, escalating, and resolving risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.

• Manage demanding clients, set expectations, facilitate decision-making, resolve conflicts, and sustain delivery momentum.

• Lead steering discussions, project reviews, escalation forums, and regular reporting to clients.

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including status reporting, change control, action logs, decisions, financial tracking, and delivery reporting.

• Hold teams accountable for their commitments and provide transparency into progress, risks, delivery health, and necessary corrective actions.

• Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams and oversee third-party implementation partners.

• Support business readiness and consider change impacts.

• Ensure a smooth transition of solutions into regular business operations.

• Monitor project health and performance, manage change requests and impact assessments, and maintain project deliverables throughout their lifecycle.

• Align project delivery with commercial, operational, and client goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant project management experience.

• Strong background in leading medium to large software implementation or technology delivery projects in international or multi-stakeholder settings.

• Experience in ERP, CRM, financial systems, accounting systems, SaaS platforms, or business intelligence implementations is advantageous.

• Proficient in project governance and delivery controls, encompassing RAID management, schedule management, milestone tracking, dependency management, change control, status reporting, escalation management, and decision tracking.

• Proven ability to manage challenging or high-demand clients while maintaining professionalism, credibility, and focus on delivery.

• Strong capability in schedule management, including creating realistic plans, maintaining baselines, identifying slippage early, re-planning, and communicating impacts.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills across executive sponsors, business users, technical teams, and client leadership.

• Experience in leading remote and cross-functional teams across different time zones and functions.

• High resilience, sound judgment, and ability to stay calm under pressure.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Proactive, hands-on approach with a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.

• Experience with Microsoft Projects, Microsoft 365, Excel, and other reporting or planning tools.

• Solid understanding of the IT industry, SaaS delivery models, and software implementation practices.

• Relevant project management qualification is preferred and beneficial.

• Permanent, reliable high-speed internet connectivity is required.

• Consent to pre-employment credit and criminal checks, as well as verification of educational qualifications and employment history.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote working environment.

• Permanent, reliable high-speed internet connectivity is essential for this role.