Project Management Lead

Become a part of our caring community   The Project Management Lead manages all aspects of a project, from start to finish, so that it is completed on time and within budget. The Project Management Lead works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial. The Project Management Lead serves as a strategic delivery leader responsible for driving the successful execution of enterprise platform modernization and transformation initiatives. This role partners with executive leadership to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, ensuring alignment across business, technology, operational, and external stakeholder groups. The Project Management Lead provides leadership across large-scale, highly complex programs that have significant enterprise impact. The role establishes and drives governance, integrated planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, organizational readiness, and value realization efforts to support the achievement of strategic business objectives. Key responsibilities include developing and executing implementation strategies, directing cross-functional teams, managing enterprise-wide dependencies, facilitating executive decision-making, and ensuring successful delivery of transformational initiatives. The role serves as a trusted advisor to leaders, providing insights, recommendations, and strategic guidance on program risks, opportunities, resource needs, and organizational impacts. • Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of enterprise platform modernization and strategic transformation initiatives. • Partner with executive and senior leadership to align program objectives with organizational strategy and business priorities. • Develop and maintain integrated roadmaps, implementation plans, milestone schedules, and delivery frameworks across multiple workstreams. • Establish governance structures and facilitate executive-level forums to drive decision-making, issue resolution, and accountability. • Identify, assess, and manage enterprise risks, interdependencies, and organizational impacts to ensure successful delivery outcomes. • Direct cross-functional teams and coordinate efforts across business, technology, operations, vendors, and external partners. • Drive resource planning and optimization to support evolving business priorities and implementation demands. • Lead organizational readiness, change management, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning efforts. • Monitor program performance, measure success against strategic objectives, and communicate progress through executive reporting and presentations. • Influence strategic planning and investment decisions by providing data-driven recommendations, delivery insights, and execution expertise. • Promote operational excellence by identifying opportunities to improve governance, delivery methodologies, processes, and organizational effectiveness. Leadership Expectations • Acts as a strategic partner and advisor to executive leadership. • Influences outcomes across multiple functional areas without direct authority. • Exercises broad discretion and independent judgment in managing complex initiatives and enterprise-level challenges. • Balances short-term delivery objectives with long-term transformation goals. • Drives alignment among diverse stakeholder groups to achieve organizational objectives. • Anticipates emerging risks and opportunities and proactively develops mitigation and execution strategies. Use your skills to make an impact   Required Qualifications • 5+ years of project/program leadership experience • Experience leading enterprise transformation or platform modernization • Experience with Agile, SAFe, or hybrid delivery models • Strong executive stakeholder, gove