Senior Project Manager

Compensation Range:

$90,000 - $100,000

Senior Project Manager, Program Management Office (PMO) – Data Centers Technologies

 

Job Description: Senior Project Manager, Global Transformation Initiatives – Data Center Technologies

Department: Program Management Office (PMO)

Reports to: Senior Manager, Program Management Office (PMO)

 

Position Summary

The Senior Project Manager serves as a leader for strategic transformation initiatives within Data Center Technologies, with primary responsibility leading a large-scale ERP implementation across the Americas. The role is accountable for the successful delivery of an end-to-end ERP deployment, ensuring the implementation of a unified business platform supported by standardized processes, harmonized data structures, and sustainable operating models.

As the overall project manager, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for establishing strong governance, driving execution excellence, managing risks, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and project outcomes. The role serves as the central point of coordination across business functions, IT, external partners, and site leadership teams to deliver transformational change while maintaining operational continuity.

Key responsibilities include leading cross-functional project teams through all phases of the project, including planning, data migration, testing, training, cutover, deployment, and stabilization. The Senior Project Manager ensures that project scope, timeline, budget, resource planning, and stakeholder expectations are effectively managed while promoting adoption of global standards and best practices.

The role works collaboratively with Subject Matter Experts, Super Users, Application Specialists, and technical teams to drive decision-making, resolve issues, and ensure readiness across all functional workstreams, including Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Procurement, Sales, and Service.

In addition, the Senior Project Manager acts as the primary escalation point for project-related risks and challenges, providing leadership and guidance to secure timely resolution and maintain project momentum. The position is responsible for maintaining comprehensive project governance, reporting, and documentation while actively managing organizational change, stakeholder engagement, and business readiness activities to maximize user adoption and long-term value realization.

Through strong leadership, skilled communication, and disciplined execution, the Senior Project Manager enables successful ERP transformations that improve operational efficiency, data quality, process harmonization, and scalability, while creating a foundation for digitalization, automation, and advanced analytics initiatives across the Business Area.

 

Candidate Profile

Success in this role requires a structured and disciplined project management approach, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to lead complex ERP transformation projects across multiple functions, locations, and stakeholder groups. The ideal candidate brings proven experience managing large-scale ERP implementations, business process transformation initiatives, and organizational change in a global manufacturing environment, combined with a strong understanding of operational business processes.

Demonstrated expertise in end-to-end project management is essential, including project initiation, scope and requirements definition, planning, resource coordination, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution, governance, and milestone tracking. The candidate must have a proven ability to deliver projects on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives while effectively managing competing priorities and stakeholder expectations.

Previous experience in leading ERP implementations, process harmonization initiatives, and organizational change programs is a must. The successful candidate understands challenges associated with system adoption and process transformation and can proactively drive stakeholder engagement, readiness, training, and business ownership through the project lifecycle.

Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills are required to coordinate activities across global and regional teams, align diverse interests, and effectively engage both operational and executive leadership. The candidate acts as a trusted advisor and change leader, capable of driving decisions, resolving issues, and maintaining momentum in complex environments.

In addition to formal leadership experience, the role requires a strong ability to lead through influence. This includes building trusted relationships across organizational boundaries, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and motivating teams without relying solely on positional authority.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Coordinating

Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, ensuring alignment across all functional workstreams, project milestones, and deployment activities. Coordinate activities across all project workstreams, ensuring interdependencies are managed and critical milestones are achieved. Align with project management and report progress, risks and issues regularly.  

Stakeholder Management

Acts as the primary liaison between executive leadership, site management, business functions, IT organizations, and external implementation partners, providing clear direction, decision support, and escalation. Ensure stakeholder needs are understood and reflected in the solution design and delivery. Facilitate project steering committees and provide executive-level reporting, recommendations, and decision support.

Scope & Requirements Management                                                                                            

Oversee requirements gathering and validation across all project workstreams, ensuring alignment with global standards and business objectives.Ensure scope is clearly defined and controlled throughout the project life cycle.Collaborate with super users, local process owners, and application specialists to translate requirements into feasible functionality.

Risk & Issue Management

Identify, assess, and manage project-wide risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations across all workstreams.Escalate critical risk impacting project timeline and budget to project management.Develop mitigation and contingency plans with project management.

Resource Oversight

Manage overall project resource planning, ensuring adequate business, technical, and external consulting support throughout all project phases.

Testing & Quality Assurance

Support planning and execution of testing activities throughout the project.Coordinate with team to ensure test cases are aligned with business scenarios.Coordinate defect resolution and retesting activities.

Change Management

Lead organization change management initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, communications, business readiness planning, training oversight, and adoption monitoring. Ensure business ownership and sustainable adoption of new processes and functionalities. Drive alignment with global standards while balancing local business requirements.

Skills & Attributes

Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and drive decisions across all organizational levels.Proven ability to lead organizational change and business transformation in complex global environments.Strong conflict resolution and stakeholder alignment capabilitiesResults-oriented mindset with a focus on business value realization and sustainable adoption.Strong business acumen with the ability to translate project decisions into operational and financial outcomes. 

Location

The ideal candidate will be based at one of our manufacturing sites in the Americas, either Daleville, Virginia or Selma, Texas, to enable close collaboration with local leadership teams and support on-site projects.This position follows a hybrid working model, with an expectation of minimum three days per week in the office.  

Travel Requirement

Travel between sites in the Americas will be required to support program execution, stakeholder engagement, and collaboration. Requirements will vary depending on project phases and location-specific needs and will be aligned with manager guidance.