Senior Project Manager - IT Governance & Outsourcing

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  • Added Date: Thursday, 24 July 2025
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Senior Project Manager - IT Governance & Outsourcing. New York. Posting Date: 07/24/2025. Deadline: 08/06/2025

Role Title: Senior Project Manager – IT Governance & Outsourcing

Contract Type: Regular

Reporting To: Team Manager

Program/Department/Unit Name: Information Technology

Location: London, NY/DC, Mexico City, Rio

Team Name: IT Governance & Outsourcing

The IT Governance & Outsourcing team at OSF defines ways of working to manage IT-enabled projects, data, budgets and expenses, contracts, vendors, and business continuity. It establishes processes to assist with demand management/project prioritization, streamlined project delivery, benefits tracking, discipline around project management practices, change management practices and adherence to IT Security good practices.

Key responsibilities

  • Listen to internal customers and sponsors and help drive strategy conversations, create vision presentations, and develop complex project plans.

    • Understand the big picture and value delivery while focusing on efficiencies and optimizations.

      • Create and manage project budgets from USD $100K-$5m.

        • Create order and stability using project management techniques and tools as appropriate for the project context.

          • Seamlessly orchestrate times zones, milestones, deadlines, and dependencies across multiple projects at one time.

            • Break silos by building relationships and processes for interacting with subject matter experts within IT and across the organization.

              • Communicate clearly to stakeholders and other audiences through sophisticated change management plans, training plans and project communication plans.

                • Manage relationships with external vendors, including negotiating contracts, monitoring and evaluating vendor performance, and ensuring compliance with contractual agreements.

                  • Motivate and protect the project team, solve problems, remove obstacles, anticipate issues, and manage risk.

                    • Have ability to recognize when projects are struggling and to course-correct when necessary, including stopping projects that are not meeting objectives.

                      • Embrace IT Governance processes and procedures, stakeholder management and change management processes and techniques.

                        The ideal candidate

                        • Proven project manager operating in a complex multi-country consulting, for-profit, or non-profit organization.

                          • Experience using industry standard project management tools and techniques to manage multiple projects simultaneously from initiation to closing (project management and change management certifications are a plus).

                            • Proven experience with change management, risk management, IT vendor management and control, and budget management up to USD $5 million.

                              • Experience managing diverse stakeholders in a matrix organization.

                                • Experience managing cross-functional IT system implementations across multiple geographies and legal entities with an elevated IT security profile.

                                  What we offer

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