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The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading large, complex, cross functional initiatives that support the company’s strategic priorities. This role leads enterprise level projects and provides guidance and support for department-led initiatives to ensure consistent project management practices and successful delivery of business outcomes.

This position has a strong focus on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) integration, including due diligence support, integration planning, and post-close execution. The Senior Project Manager ensures alignment of newly acquired entities and drives successful post-merger operational readiness across people, processes, systems, and culture.

The role partners closely with Executive Sponsors, functional leaders, subject matter experts, operational teams, and Change Management to ensure initiatives are strategically aligned, operationally ready, and effectively implemented across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Leadership

• Lead the planning and execution of large, complex enterprise initiatives, ensuring delivery of intended business outcomes aligned to strategic objectives.
• Lead M&A integration initiatives, including integration planning, Day 1 readiness, and postintegration stabilization.
• Manage crossfunctional integration workstreams (e.g., IT, People Services, Operations, Finance, Legal).
• Define and manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, and dependencies to ensure successful delivery.
• Coordinate crossfunctional project teams and ensure accountability for milestones and deliverables.
• Identify impacted stakeholders and ensure appropriate engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate project planning sessions, stakeholder alignment, and crossfunctional coordination
• Track project performance and proactively address risks, issues, constraints, and interdependencies.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and provide clear, concise status reporting to leadership and stakeholders.
• Partner with Change Management to incorporate change enablement, communications, and training into project plans.

 Department Project Support & Governance

• Promote and provide guidance and support to ensure consistent project management methodologies, tools, and reporting practices are executed as defined by the EPMO.
• Establish and facilitate integration governance (cadence, updates, workstream reporting) to ensure alignment, transparency, and timely decision-making.
• Promote and provide guidance to ensure consistent project management methodologies, tools, and reporting practices are executed as defined by the EPMO.
• Establish and facilitate M&A and enterprise governance structures, including cadence, executive updates, workstream reporting, and decision escalation.
• Drive transparency, alignment, and timely decisionmaking across stakeholders

Operational Readiness & Implementation

• Ensure projects are operationally ready prior to launch and that implementation plans consider the full organizational impact.
• Ensure all acquired operations, systems, processes, and teams are prepared for integration milestones (Day 1, Day 30/60/90, full integration).
• Identify potential operational gaps and coordinate mitigation plans across impacted teams.
• Verify data, systems, and process harmonization efforts across legacy and acquired business units.
• Ensure sustainable adoption of new processes and ways of working post-implementation

Documentation & Knowledge Management

• Create, maintain, and organize core project execution documentation, including project charters, project plans, risk and issue logs, status reports, decision logs, and implementation plans that adhere to the EPMO standards.
• For M&A integration projects, create and maintain integration plans, RAID logs, decision logs, and synergy/value capture trackers, document dependencies and transition activities.
• Ensure operational documentation created during projects is properly developed and transitioned to operational teams, including but not limited to SOPs, Processes & Procedures, Job Aids and Training Materials
• Confirm operational documentation accurately reflects new processes prior to project completion.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Operations, Organizational Leadership, or related field preferred.
• Project management certification (PMP, PgMP, or equivalent) required.
• 5+ years of experience managing large, complex projects or cross-functional initiatives, including enterprise-wide implementations and/or business transformation.
• 2+ years managing M&A integration or organizational transformation initiatives preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and lead through ambiguity in dynamic, high-change environments.
• Manage multiple initiatives simultaneously and identify interdependencies across projects.
• Experience with operational readiness, transformation programs, or enterprise system implementations.
• Experience with formal project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid)
• Experience coordinating projects with senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Experience working in or alongside a PMO or Enterprise PMO environment.

Skills

• Strong project planning and execution capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously as well navigate ambiguity and lead through high-change, high-velocity environments
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Strong risk, issue, and dependency management skills
• Ability to navigate organizational complexity and drive alignment across teams.
• Strong organizational and documentation management skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional integration workstreams and manage interdependencies across people, process, and technology.
• Expertise in integrating disparate operational processes, technologies, and organizational structures.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information, facilitate decision-making, and present to senior leaders.