Project Director - New Implementations

Centric Software; Campbell (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Centric Software is seeking a Project Director for New Implementations in Campbell, CA. This senior role leads executive governance, defines program roadmaps, and ensures alignment between delivery and client strategy.

You will manage complex stakeholder relationships at C-suite levels, oversee budgets and P&L, and mentor PMs to apply Centric PMO standards across large-scale implementations. This is a full-time, high-impact leadership position in a fast-growth environment.

Qualifications

• Executive Governance & Reporting: Establish and chair the client-side Steering Committee meetings, providing strategic updates, managing high-level risks, and securing executive sign-off on major program milestones and funding.
• Strategic Program Ownership: Define the overall program roadmap and business case for multi-year, multi-phase engagements, ensuring alignment between technical delivery and the client’s long-term strategic objectives.
• Complex Stakeholder Management: Navigate and resolve political or organizational blockers at the C-suite and VP level on both the client and Centric side.
• Risk Mitigation: Conduct strategic reviews of individual project plans managed by PMs, proactively identifying systemic risks, resource conflicts, and commercial threats before they impact delivery.
• Commercial & Financial Oversight: Oversee the consolidated program budget, manage the P&L for the entire engagement, and ensure all contract terms, change orders, and invoicing milestones are met to maximize commercial success.
• Methodology Adherence: Mentor Project Managers (PMs) on applying Centric PMO methodology to extremely large-scale and non-standard project environments while ensuring core compliance standards are maintained.

Responsibilities

• Executive Governance & Reporting: Establish and chair the client-side Steering Committee meetings, providing strategic updates, managing high-level risks, and securing executive sign-off on major program milestones and funding.
• Strategic Program Ownership: Define the overall program roadmap and business case for multi-year, multi-phase engagements, ensuring alignment between technical delivery and the client’s long-term strategic objectives.
• Complex Stakeholder Management: Navigate and resolve political or organizational blockers at the C-suite and VP level on both the client and Centric side.
• Risk Mitigation: Conduct strategic reviews of individual project plans managed by PMs, proactively identifying systemic risks, resource conflicts, and commercial threats before they impact delivery.
• Commercial & Financial Oversight: Oversee the consolidated program budget, manage the P&L for the entire engagement, and ensure all contract terms, change orders, and invoicing milestones are met to maximize commercial success.
• Methodology Adherence: Mentor Project Managers (PMs) on applying Centric PMO methodology to extremely large-scale and non-standard project environments while ensuring core compliance standards are maintained.

Job description

## Project Director - New ImplementationsApply: Campbell, CA: Full time: Posted 30+ Days Ago: JR86**About Centric Software:**Centric Software is a global leader, providing an innovative and AI-enabled product-concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.Our story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo—and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.**Executive Governance & Reporting:** Establish and chair the client-side Steering Committee meetings, providing strategic updates, managing high-level risks, and securing executive sign-off on major program milestones and funding.**Strategic Program Ownership**: Define the overall program roadmap and business case for multi-year, multi-phase engagements, ensuring alignment between technical delivery and the client’s long-term strategic objectives.**Complex Stakeholder Management:** Navigate and resolve political or organizational blockers at the C-suite and VP level on both the client and Centric side.**Risk Mitigation :** Conduct strategic reviews of individual project plans managed by PMs, proactively identifying systemic risks, resource conflicts, and commercial threats before they impact delivery.**Commercial & Financial Oversight:** Oversee the consolidated program budget, manage the P&L for the entire engagement, and ensure all contract terms, change orders, and invoicing milestones are met to maximize commercial success.**Methodology Adherence:** Mentor Project Managers (PMs) on applying Centric PMO methodology to extremely large-scale and non-standard project environments while ensuring core compliance standards are maintained.**Forecast** : Review the budget forecast and resource allocation forecast prepared by the PMs and ensure its comprehensiveness and accuracy*Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.*