Senior Project Manager

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

📋 Description

• Oversee intricate, enterprise-wide strategic projects from their inception through to implementation, adoption, and transition to ongoing management.

• Collaborate with executive sponsors and functional leaders to clarify business challenges, strategic objectives, project scope, success criteria, and decision-making authority.

• Create and implement comprehensive project plans that encompass workstreams, key milestones, dependencies, resources, financial aspects, and change impacts.

• Establish and direct program governance, executive steering committees, sponsor reviews, decision-making forums, workstream meetings, and escalation procedures.

• Coordinate Operations, Technology, Finance, Commercial, Product, People, and other business units around enterprise priorities.

• Foster accountability for deliverables, commitments, decisions, and interdependencies.

• Identify and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and organizational readiness requirements.

• Oversee scope management and changes while evaluating impacts on outcomes, timelines, investments, resources, operating models, and benefits realization.

• Prepare reports, dashboards, recommendations, and decision materials for executive-level stakeholders.

• Monitor the health of initiatives, tracking milestones, resource usage, budget performance, KPIs, and anticipated business benefits.

• Assist in enterprise portfolio planning and prioritization by providing delivery data, capacity insights, sequencing recommendations, and tradeoff analyses.

• Lead stakeholder engagement and change management efforts to foster adoption and sustainable ownership.

• Enhance Enterprise PMO governance standards, templates, methodologies, portfolio reporting, and delivery best practices.

• Mentor project managers and workstream leaders in planning, risk management, executive communication, and delivery discipline.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must possess a current PMP certification, maintained in accordance with PMI standards.

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience is required.

• At least 8 years of progressive experience in project or program management, leading complex, cross-functional strategic or enterprise initiatives from initiation to closure.

• Proven experience collaborating with senior executives and influencing stakeholders across various business functions.

• Capability to lead in ambiguous situations and make informed decisions with incomplete information.

• Experience in setting up project governance, executive reporting, and decision-making forums for high-profile initiatives.

• Strong understanding of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project management methodologies.

• Ability to manage several concurrent projects, complex dependencies, resource limitations, and competing enterprise priorities.

• Strong business acumen in assessing delivery trade-offs, resource requirements, financial implications, and business benefits.

• Advanced proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite.

• Outstanding written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and executive communication abilities.

• Preferred: MBA or another advanced degree.

• Preferred: PMI-ACP, PgMP, Lean, or Six Sigma certification.

• Preferred: experience with enterprise transformation, operating model design, technology-driven change, M&A integration, or process optimization initiatives.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare, life sciences, financial services, technology, or other complex regulated sectors.

• Candidates should be able to type at least 35 words per minute with 97% accuracy.

• Successful completion of a background check and, depending on the position, a drug screening will be required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans, including HSA- and FSA-eligible options, with Valeris contributing towards premium costs.

• Telehealth and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) services available.

• Company matching on Health Savings Account contributions.

• Complimentary Basic Life and AD&D coverage equal to annual earnings, with a minimum of $50,000 and a maximum of $300,000.

• Company-paid Short-Term Disability coverage, with an option to purchase Long-Term Disability.

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan featuring a 100% match on the first 5% contributed, with immediate vesting.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Sick Leave policies in place.

• Nine paid holidays plus two floating holidays offered.

• Opportunities for career advancement and personal as well as professional growth.

• Engaging and challenging work environment that encourages innovative ideas.

• An inclusive workplace and mission-driven corporate culture.

• Minimal travel flexibility may be preferred as needed.