Project Manager

HireTalent; Urbandale (IA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HireTalent is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead and support complex workstreams within a large-scale transformation program. You will drive projects from strategy through execution, ensuring successful transitions, integrations, and delivery against objectives.

The role requires proven experience managing major change initiatives across geographically distributed teams and partnering with senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Project Manager leading complex, large-scale projects or programs.
• Demonstrated success delivering major transformation, change, transition, or integration initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and cross-functional workstreams.
• Strong project planning, execution, governance, risk management, and change control capabilities.
• Experience managing geographically dispersed teams and resources.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior-level leadership.
• Ability to create business cases, assessments, communication plans, detailed project plans, and executive presentations.
• Strong problem-solving, facilitation, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to drive projects to completion with minimal direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support multiple projects and workstreams from planning through implementation.
• Manage resources across geographically distributed teams and functions.
• Prioritize and coordinate multiple projects, programs, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Communicate project activities, priorities, risks, and status to senior management, stakeholders, and project teams.
• Develop and maintain key project documentation, including: Business cases and assessments, Detailed project plans and migration schedules, Communication plans, Implementation plans and toolkits, Executive-level project updates and presentations.
• Facilitate decision-making, problem-solving, and alignment across project teams and stakeholders.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies early and develop appropriate mitigation plans.
• Escalate critical risks and issues to leadership as needed.
• Maintain strong project governance, controls, and change management processes.
• Ensure project deliverables remain aligned with program objectives and the target operating model.
• Support successful business transitions and integrations across functions and regions.
• Drive assigned initiatives to completion with minimal oversight while maintaining strong stakeholder engagement.

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead and support complex workstreams within a large-scale transformation program. This role is responsible for driving projects from strategy through execution, ensuring successful transitions, integrations, and delivery against defined objectives.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record delivering major change initiatives, managing geographically distributed teams, and partnering with senior stakeholders. Workstreams may span people, process, technology, and real estate, with a focus on implementing future-state operating models.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support multiple projects and workstreams from planning through successful implementation.
• Manage direct and indirect resources across geographically distributed teams and functions.
• Prioritize and coordinate multiple projects, programs, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Communicate project activities, priorities, risks, and status to senior management, stakeholders, and project teams.
• Develop and maintain key project documentation, including:
• Business cases and assessments
• Detailed project plans and migration schedules
• Communication plans
• Implementation plans and toolkits
• Executive-level project updates and presentations
• Facilitate decision-making, problem-solving, and alignment across project teams and stakeholders.
• Identify project risks, issues, and dependencies early and develop appropriate mitigation plans.
• Escalate critical risks and issues to leadership as needed.
• Maintain strong project governance, controls, and change management processes.
• Ensure project deliverables remain aligned with program objectives and the target operating model.
• Support successful business transitions and integrations across functions and regions.
• Drive assigned initiatives to completion with minimal oversight while maintaining strong stakeholder engagement.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Project Manager leading complex, large-scale projects or programs.
• Demonstrated success delivering major transformation, change, transition, or integration initiatives.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and cross-functional workstreams.
• Strong project planning, execution, governance, risk management, and change control capabilities.
• Experience managing geographically dispersed teams and resources.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior-level leadership.
• Ability to create business cases, assessments, communication plans, detailed project plans, and executive presentations.
• Strong problem-solving, facilitation, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to drive projects to completion with minimal direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.