Senior Project Manager – Key Initiatives

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete delivery of strategic Marketing Solutions projects, from initiation and planning to execution and stabilization.

• Manage scope, timelines, dependencies, budgets, and delivery risks across multiple simultaneous projects.

• Utilize hybrid delivery methods and synchronize efforts among business, finance, product, technology, and operations teams.

• Supervise pricing, PWO, forecasting, and financial planning activities.

• Assist in developing business cases, investment proposals, cost-benefit evaluations, scenario analyses, and funding recommendations.

• Monitor budgets, vendor expenditures, forecasting assumptions, financial risks, and anticipated results.

• Oversee review and approval processes for PWOs, SOWs, vendor partnerships, and funding requests.

• Convert financial data into clear decisions, actionable steps, and insights ready for executive presentation.

• Act as the central coordination hub for initiatives that involve multiple teams, systems, and approval workflows.

• Identify and manage dependencies, risks, transitions, and sequencing of tasks.

• Highlight conflicts, capacity limitations, data insufficiencies, and decision-making requirements.

• Ensure that projects enter execution with well-defined scope, ownership, assumptions, success criteria, and necessary approvals.

• Serve as the primary liaison for stakeholders and leadership involved in initiatives.

• Provide updates on status, track milestones, assess financial and delivery risks, maintain decision logs, and offer executive summaries.

• Facilitate working sessions, budget reviews, steering committee meetings, and leadership check-ins.

• Establish operational and financial guidelines, documentation standards, controls, and criteria for readiness.

• Define go/no-go checkpoints, validation processes, approval pathways, and escalation procedures.

• Maintain RAID and decision logs, drive mitigation strategies, and support stabilization and handoff after launch.

• Coordinate the rollout, enablement, documentation, and adoption of new processes, capabilities, vendors, platforms, or financial workflows.

• Collaborate with affected teams to ensure changes are comprehended, adopted, and integrated into operations.

• Contribute to PMO standards, templates, and best practices.

• Enhance processes related to business cases, PWO management, budget tracking, status updates, and executive decision-making support.

• Mentor colleagues on delivery discipline, risk management, and effective stakeholder communication.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• PMP, Agile, FP&A, or a similar certification is preferred but not mandatory.

• Over 10 years of experience managing complex, cross-functional projects or programs.

• Demonstrated success in delivering initiatives that involve finance, pricing, product, technology, data, commercial, or operational teams.

• Experience collaborating with Finance, FP&A, Pricing, Procurement, or Business Operations.

• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, investment prioritization, or financial review activities.

• Experience in developing or coordinating business cases, cost-benefit analyses, ROI evaluations, and executive funding recommendations.

• Experience managing vendor-related financial processes, including PWOs, SOWs, contracts, approvals, and budget tracking.

• Experience in marketing, media, data, or technology-driven services environments.

• Comfort with operating in dynamic, fast-paced environments with competing priorities and shared accountability.

• Strong project and program management skills across Agile, hybrid, and waterfall delivery methodologies.

• Strong business and financial insight, with the ability to interpret budgets, forecasts, pricing models, financial assumptions, and investment proposals.

• Ability to assess financial and operational trade-offs and link initiative outcomes to revenue, margin, cost savings, efficiency, or risk reduction.

• Familiarity with variance analysis, scenario planning, value realization, and financial governance.

• Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience in organizing and analyzing financial and operational data.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to report and support decisions at the executive level.

• Ability to lead without direct authority and foster alignment across diverse functional teams.

• Strong organizational capabilities, attention to detail, sound judgment, and follow-through.

• Experience managing risks, dependencies, approvals, and handoffs across teams.

• Proficient in project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Teams, and Monday.com.

• A structured problem solver capable of navigating ambiguity and translating high-level objectives into actionable plans.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus incentive program.

• Workplace flexibility.

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Disability accommodations during the selection process.