Project Manager

American Board of Pediatrics; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Project Manager at American Board of Pediatrics will lead enterprise-level initiatives from concept to delivery, coordinating across departments in Chapel Hill, NC. You will own scope, schedules, budgets, and governance, ensuring timely decisions and measurable outcomes with a portfolio mindset.

Lead multi-year programs, drive stakeholder alignment, and provide executive-ready communication. Strong PMO discipline and collaboration with business and technical leaders are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience managing enterprise-level projects.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent projects across departments.
• Owns scope, schedules, budgets, resources, and success metrics.
• Establishes governance, stage gates, risk/issue management and executive reporting.
• Develops integrated master schedules and RAID logs; mitigates risks.

Skills

Enterprise project management

Cross-functional leadership

Budget management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk & issue management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

5+ years experience

Tools

MS Project

Smartsheet

Jira

Azure DevOps

ServiceNow PPM

Job description

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Project Manager

Full-time Regular Professional Chapel Hill, NC, US

30+ days ago Requisition ID: 1009

Salary Range: $100,000.00 To $110,000.00 Annually

Job Summary:

The Project Manager serves as a lead, enterprise-level project and portfolio practitioner—driving complex, multi-year, cross-departmental initiatives that advance strategic priorities. This role is accountable for end-to-end delivery across multiple concurrent projects, including integrated planning, stakeholder alignment, scope/schedule/budget/RAID management, and measurable outcomes. Operating with a portfolio mindset and strong PMO discipline, the Project Manager leads through influence, establishes and improves delivery standards, and provides clear, executive-ready communication that enables timely, informed decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads a strategic portfolio of enterprise initiatives, managing multiple complex, cross-functional projects while balancing priorities, dependencies, capacity, and organizational impact.
• Owns end-to-end delivery, including scope definition, work plans, schedules, budgets, resource planning, and success metrics to ensure disciplined execution.
• Drives cross-functional alignment by partnering with business and technical leaders to clarify outcomes, roles, decision-making, and ways of working; facilitates timely decisions and issue resolution.
• Establishes and oversees project governance, including charters, stage gates, risk and issue management, change control, and executive reporting to ensure transparency and accountability.
• Develops and manages integrated master schedules, dependency mapping, and portfolio-level RAID logs; proactively identifies risks and drives mitigation, escalation, and resolution strategies.
• Leads portfolio resource and financial management, including capacity planning, forecasting, and variance analysis; recommends prioritization and sequencing to optimize delivery.
• Provides delivery leadership and mentorship to project teams and project managers by modeling best practices, strengthening planning and governance, and enhancing stakeholder engagement.
• Leads communication and change management efforts, including stakeholder alignment, training, adoption metrics, and post-implementation stabilization to ensure sustained business value.

Other Functions:

• Supports enterprise planning and prioritization activities by maintaining intake artifacts (charters, business cases, high-level estimates) and ensuring readiness for governance reviews.
• Contributes to continuous improvement of project and portfolio delivery by refining templates, dashboards, and reporting cadences; captures lessons learned and drives adoption of best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

No supervisory responsibilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required and a minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience managing complex, enterprise-level projects (multi-workstream and cross-departmental), including schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder engagement; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, complex initiatives from concept through delivery, including defining scope, building integrated plans, managing dependencies, and driving adoption/change across diverse teams.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and/or a strategic portfolio, with the ability to prioritize, negotiate tradeoffs, and deliver outcomes in a dynamic environment.
• Strong risk and issue management skills, including comfort operating with discretion and sound judgment in complex, high-visibility, and/or regulated environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information, surface risks/options, and influence across departments without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree preferred (e.g., MBA, MPA, MS, or related).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred (or demonstrated equivalent mastery of project management standards and practices).
• PMO experience, including building/using governance, templates, stage gates, and portfolio reporting to improve delivery consistency and transparency.
• Demonstrated experience delivering multi-year programs and large-scale initiatives with significant change management and cross-organizational dependencies.
• Experience managing vendors and external partners (contracts, statements of work, deliverables, performance), as applicable to project delivery.
• Advanced proficiency with project/portfolio tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow PPM, or similar) and strong analytical skills for schedule/financial/status reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, build strong partnerships, and drive accountability across multiple departments while maintaining a high bar for quality and customer/service outcomes.

Travel Required

Travel is expected to be between 0% - 5% of the time.

A current driver’s license and appropriate insurance must be maintained at all times as it pertains to responding to emergencies after hours.

Extended work hours may be required when serving as emergency contact.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The setting for this role will include office settings.

Exposure to controlled temperature environments, both hot and cold, is to be expected. Work under severe weather and temperature conditions may be required .

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, demonstrate hand and finger dexterity in the course of their work, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

The expected physical workload is expected to be Light Work.

Light Work : Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work.

This role is expected to use the following machines, tools, and equipment: