The Manager, Project Management oversees a portfolio of initiatives, providing executive reporting, risk insights, and ensuring alignment with enterprise goals while championing AI technologies for project efficiency.
The Manager, Project Management is a strategic leader responsible for overseeing a portfolio of initiatives that support enterprise goals. This role focuses on portfolio prioritization, resource optimization, and value delivery across multiple concurrent projects.
Partnering closely with executive leadership, the Manager provides clear, executive-level reporting, forecasting, and risk insights to enable informed decision-making. The role also champions the use of AI-enabled tools and data-driven practices to enhance planning, predict risk, optimize resources, and modernize project delivery while ensuring strong governance and accountability.
Responsibilities:
- Provide concise, executive-level reporting on project and portfolio health, including schedule, budget, risk, and value realization.
- Develop and deliver dashboards, scorecards, and presentations for senior leadership that translate complex project data into actionable insights.
- Partner with executive stakeholders to support decision-making through scenario analysis, forecasting, and impact assessments.
- Ensure transparency and alignment between project outcomes and organizational strategy.
- Act as a high-level Portfolio Manager, overseeing multiple concurrent projects and programs to ensure alignment with business priorities.
- Evaluate, prioritize, and sequence initiatives based on strategic value, capacity, risk, and return on investment.
- Balance portfolio resources across initiatives to optimize delivery and avoid over-allocation.
- Continuously assess portfolio performance and recommend reallocation, acceleration, or termination of initiatives as needed.
- Establish and govern portfolio-level standards, metrics, and best practices.
- Leverage AI-enabled tools to improve project forecasting, risk identification, resource planning, and reporting accuracy.
- Champion the adoption of emerging technologies (AI, automation, analytics) to enhance project delivery efficiency and decision-making.
- Use data-driven and predictive insights to proactively identify trends, risks, and opportunities across the project portfolio.
- Collaborate with technology and data teams to continuously improve project management tooling and capabilities.
- Establish and manage project and portfolio governance frameworks to ensure consistency, compliance, and accountability.
- Ensure projects are delivering intended business outcomes and measurable value, not just tactical milestones.
- Promote continuous improvement through lessons learned, retrospectives, and performance analysis at both project and portfolio levels.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on delivery risk, organizational capacity, and execution strategy.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- PM Certification preferred
- 5-7 years experience in business and project management principles, including strategic planning, resource allocation, and production methods
- 3 years experience direct work, with a team, in a large-scale project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution
- Ability to build strong business relationships with other functional areas to best support mutual objectives
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze workflow and processes to provide excellent service to internal and external customers
- Ability to spot key risks upfront and mitigate
- Ability to bring quick focus to key issues and priorities
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About UsThis amount is what we reasonably believe we will pay for the position; however, offer amounts may vary based on factors such as geographic location, relevant education, experience, qualifications, skills, shift, or any collective bargaining agreements.In addition, Wesco offers a benefits program for eligible employees, which may include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and retirement savings plans. Additional details about benefits are available here.
This posting is for a current, active vacancy intended for immediate hire.
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