Manager, Professional Services Projects

Aspen Technology, Inc.; Medina (MN); On-site; USD 118,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus or incentive pay

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

AspenTech is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex software delivery across global customer projects. You will partner with executives to define delivery strategies, manage plans, and ensure financial performance while maintaining high customer satisfaction.

Based in the United States, this full-time role requires 10+ years in project or program management, strong leadership, and experience with large-scale software deployments in energy or industrial tech.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.
• 10+ years in project management, program management, or professional services.
• 3+ years leading project managers, technical teams, or delivery orgs.
• Experience managing complex, highly technical customer projects and portfolios.
• Strong understanding of scheduling, risk, budgeting, and resource planning.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and planning methodologies (PERT, CPM).
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Monitor project execution, identifying risks and ensuring alignment with customer and business expectations.
• Oversee a portfolio of customer projects, ensuring successful execution, financial control, and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure project plans, schedules, budgets, and resources are developed, maintained, and effectively managed.
• Oversee contract and scope change management for commercial and operational success.
• Drive project financial performance, including revenue forecasting, margin management, and cost controls.
• Collaborate with customers and executives to build strong relationships and ensure successful outcomes.
• Partner with leadership to define delivery strategies, resource planning, and priorities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve delivery efficiency, quality, and customer experience.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Project Managers, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Support talent development through performance management and hiring.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budgeting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

AspenTech is a global software leader helping industries meet the increasing demand for resources from a rapidly growing population in a profitable and sustainable manner. Our Digital Grid Management software suite helps power and utilities companies achieve superior real-time control, optimization, and management for exceptional performance of complex energy networks.

Your Impact

• Monitor project execution, proactively identifying risks, resolving escalations, and ensuring alignment with customer and business expectations.
• Oversee a portfolio of customer projects, ensuring successful execution, financial control, and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource allocations are developed, maintained, and effectively managed.
• Oversee contract and scope change management processes to ensure commercial and operational success.
• Drive project financial performance, including revenue forecasting, margin management, cost controls, and resource utilization.
• Collaborate with customers and executive stakeholders to build strong relationships and ensure successful project outcomes.
• Partner with leadership to define project delivery strategies, resource planning, and operational priorities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve delivery efficiency, quality, and customer experience.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Project Managers, fostering a high-performance, customer-focused culture.
• Support talent development through performance management, succession planning, hiring, and career growth initiatives.
• Promote continuous improvement initiatives and support organizational growth and scalability.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 10+ years of project management, program management, or professional services experience.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing project managers, technical teams, or customer-facing delivery organizations.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, highly technical customer projects and project portfolios.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including scheduling, risk management, budgeting, and resource planning.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and project planning methodologies such as PERT and CPM.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing project delivery teams within software, utility, energy, industrial technology, or automation industries.
• Electrical utility industry experience, including ADMS, EMS, DMS, OMS, SCADA, or grid modernization projects.
• International project management experience and understanding of global business practices and cultural considerations.
• Engineering degree, preferably Electrical, Computer, Systems, or related discipline.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential.
• Experience leading organizational transformation, process improvement, and operational excellence initiatives.

Work Authorization

AspenTech will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

This role is a valuable part of our Digital Grid Management team at AspenTech. Learn more about the team here:

Together We Build the Utility of the Future | Digital Grid Management | AspenTech

The salary range for this role is $117,500.00 - $146,900.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.