Senior Project Manager – APAC

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

📋 Description

• Oversee and lead medium to large-scale software delivery and implementation projects, including international initiatives.

• Develop and sustain the delivery framework, governance schedule, and project controls throughout the entire project lifecycle.

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

• Create and actively oversee integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and critical path items.

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

• Handle demanding clients, set clear expectations, facilitate decision-making, manage conflicts, and sustain delivery momentum.

• Lead steering discussions, project reviews, escalation forums, and regular client communications.

• Maintain project documentation, status updates, change control, action logs, decisions, financial tracking, and delivery reporting to meet audit-ready standards.

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

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

• Assist in business readiness and assess change impacts.

• Ensure smooth transition of solutions into regular business operations.

• Monitor project health and performance while maintaining project deliverables throughout the lifecycle.

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Strong understanding of project governance and delivery controls, including RAID management, schedule oversight, milestone tracking, dependency management, change control, status reporting, escalation management, and decision tracking.

• History of managing challenging or high-demand clients while maintaining professionalism, credibility, and a focus on delivery.

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

• Exceptional 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 the ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.

• Excellent written and verbal communication capabilities.

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

• Proficient in using Microsoft Projects, Microsoft 365, Excel, and other reporting or planning tools.

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

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

• Experience in agile, hybrid, or structured software delivery environments.

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

• Relevant project management qualification is preferred and advantageous, but not mandatory.

• Ability to pass necessary credit and criminal background checks as well as verification of educational qualifications and employment history.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote working environment.

• Employee ownership opportunities.

• Exposure to international clients.

• Flexibility in remote working arrangements.

• Permanent, reliable high-speed internet connectivity support/requirement (no allowance explicitly stated).