Senior Strategic Projects Manager

Penguin Random House LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Penguin Random House LLC in New York seeks a Senior Project Manager with strong business analysis to drive strategic initiatives across marketing, sales, technology, and operations. You will lead cross-functional teams, build business cases, and own end-to-end delivery.

You will translate goals into charters, manage stakeholders, and communicate status through Jira, Monday.com, and MS Planner. The role emphasizes collaboration with senior leadership and a track record of delivering complex

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management, consulting, or other relevant experience, with demonstrated success managing complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience implementing SAP or other ERP systems is a plus.
• Experience implementing other enterprise applications such as Salesforce; Jira or other Atlassian products.
• Ability to understand and document business processes quickly and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Lead discussions with business leaders and stakeholders to define project scope, goals, business requirements, and deliverables.
• Lead cross-functional teams from across the organization to execute multi-threaded projects.
• Create project plans, work breakdown structures, and communications to ensure projects stay on track.
• Manage roll-out, documentation, and hand off resultant systems and processes to relevant teams.
• Provide ongoing communication and status updates to support business leaders, stakeholders, and the Strategic Project portfolio.
• Lead project evaluations, retrospectives, and other assessments of results.
• Leverage project management tools such as Jira, Monday.com, and MS Planner to manage teams and communicate statuses.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Jira

Monday.com

MS Planner

Salesforce

SAP

Job description

Penguin Random House LLC in New York seeks a Senior Project Manager with strong business analysis to drive strategic initiatives across marketing, sales, technology, and operations. You will lead cross-functional teams, build business cases, and own end-to-end delivery.

You will translate goals into charters, manage stakeholders, and communicate status through Jira, Monday.com, and MS Planner. The role emphasizes collaboration with senior leadership and a track record of delivering complex