Senior Project Manager

Russell Tobin; Urbandale (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PrideGlobal is partnering with Russell Tobin to place a Senior Project Manager in Urbandale, Iowa. This role supports major transformation initiatives within Finance, reporting to the Project Lead and guiding multiple workstreams to deliver on the program strategy.

Candidates will lead cross-region teams, manage change, develop plans and business cases, and present updates to senior Finance leadership. The position requires strong communication, risk management, and the ability to drive projects

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading major projects, programs, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong project management and change management skills.
• Experience coordinating workstreams across regions and functions.
• Ability to prioritize multiple priorities and manage timelines.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with senior stakeholders.
• Self-motivated with ability to drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.
• Experience with project controls, risk management, and issue escalation.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects and workstreams across regions and functions.
• Coordinate resources across geographically dispersed teams.
• Communicate objectives, timelines, deliverables to stakeholders.
• Develop business cases, assessments, and implementation plans.
• Support project implementation with migration schedules and frameworks.
• Present updates, risks, and recommendations to senior Finance leadership.
• Identify and mitigate risks, escalate issues to management.
• Maintain project controls and ensure change controls and compliance.
• Proactively drive projects to completion with minimal oversight.

Job description

Russell Tobin's client is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support major transformation initiatives within Finance. Reporting to the Project Lead, this role will manage and support multiple workstreams through successful execution, transition, and integration while ensuring projects are delivered in line with the overall program strategy.

The ideal candidate has experience leading major change initiatives, managing geographically dispersed teams and resources, and working with senior stakeholders across regional and functional teams. Workstreams may include people, process, technology, and real estate components supporting the development of a Target Operating Model.

What You'll Be Doing

• Manage multiple projects and workstreams across regions and functions, ensuring activities are prioritized and completed on schedule.
• Coordinate direct and indirect resources across geographically dispersed teams.
• Communicate project objectives, timelines, deliverables, and key activities to management and project stakeholders.
• Develop project business cases, assessments, communication plans, implementation plans, and other strategic documentation.
• Support project implementation using tools such as migration schedules, project plans, and implementation frameworks.
• Present project updates, risks, and recommendations to senior Finance leadership.
• Facilitate decision-making and problem-solving on key project issues.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and elevate significant issues to management.
• Maintain project controls and ensure deliverables, change controls, and compliance requirements are properly managed.
• Proactively identify issues and drive projects through successful completion with minimal oversight.

What You Bring

• Proven experience managing major projects, programs, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong project management and change management experience.
• Experience managing workstreams involving people, process, technology, or organizational transformation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with experience engaging senior-level stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and organizational skills.
• Comfortable working across regions, functions, and geographically dispersed teams.
• Self-motivated with the ability to independently drive projects and objectives to completion.
• Experience with project controls, risk management, issue escalation, and change management processes.

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates offers eligible employee's comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

PrideGlobal and it's affiliates are a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates : Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation