Masentó are working with a global organisation that requires a Senior IT Project Manager / PMO to support multiple projects on a 12 month+. This position will be 4 days a week onsite in North-west Paris, 1 day remote.
They are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager / PMO Lead to take ownership of delivery governance, planning and cross-workstream coordination across these technology domains. You will work with technical leads, vendors and senior stakeholders to keep a complex portfolio on time, on budget and aligned to business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent IT projects across SAP, infrastructure, network and cyber security
- Own integrated project plans, dependencies, milestones and critical path across workstreams
- Drive delivery through the full lifecycle, from initiation and design through build, test, cutover and hypercare
- Manage scope, change control and release coordination
- Establish and run PMO frameworks, including governance cadence, reporting standards, templates and tooling
- Produce clear, accurate RAG reporting, dashboards and executive updates for steering committees
- Maintain RAID logs, actively manage risk and escalate issues with proposed mitigations
- Track budgets, forecasts, resource allocation and benefits realisation
- Ensure compliance with internal governance, audit and quality standards
- Act as the main point of contact for senior business and IT stakeholders, up to C-level
- Manage relationships with system integrators, managed service providers and technology vendors, including SOW and deliverable oversight
- Facilitate decision-making between business, technical and security teams
- Lead workshops, steering groups and cross-functional working sessions
Essential Skills and Experience
- Significant experience (typically 8+ years) in senior IT project management and/or PMO leadership on large, complex programmes
- Proven delivery across multiple technology domains, with demonstrable exposure to SAP, infrastructure, network and cyber security
- Experience running a PMO or governance function, including reporting, risk management, financial control and change management
- Strong grasp of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and when to apply each, ideally in hybrid delivery environments
- Confident managing multiple vendors and third-party suppliers
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable presenting to senior leadership
- Experience managing programme budgets and forecasting
- Strong working knowledge of project tooling (e.g. MS Project, Jira, ServiceNow, Planview, Smartsheet or similar)