Project Manager, Change Management, Project & Program Management

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Full-time Regular Professional Chapel Hill, NC, US

30+ days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Job Summary:

The Project Manager serves as a lead, enterprise-level project and portfolio practitioner—driving complex, multi-year, cross-departmental initiatives that advance strategic priorities. This role is accountable for end-to-end delivery across multiple concurrent projects, including integrated planning, stakeholder alignment, scope/schedule/budget/RAID management, and measurable outcomes. Operating with a portfolio mindset and strong PMO discipline, the Project Manager leads through influence, establishes and improves delivery standards, and provides clear, executive-ready communication that enables timely, informed decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads a strategic portfolio of enterprise initiatives, managing multiple complex, cross-functional projects while balancing priorities, dependencies, capacity, and organizational impact.
• Owns end-to-end delivery, including scope definition, work plans, schedules, budgets, resource planning, and success metrics to ensure disciplined execution.
• Drives cross-functional alignment by partnering with business and technical leaders to clarify outcomes, roles, decision-making, and ways of working; facilitates timely decisions and issue resolution.
• Establishes and oversees project governance, including charters, stage gates, risk and issue management, change control, and executive reporting to ensure transparency and accountability.
• Develops and manages integrated master schedules, dependency mapping, and portfolio-level RAID logs; proactively identifies risks and drives mitigation, escalation, and resolution strategies.
• Leads portfolio resource and financial management, including capacity planning, forecasting, and variance analysis; recommends prioritization and sequencing to optimize delivery.
• Provides delivery leadership and mentorship to project teams and project managers by modeling best practices, strengthening planning and governance, and enhancing stakeholder engagement.
• Leads communication and change management efforts, including stakeholder alignment, training, adoption metrics, and post-implementation stabilization to ensure sustained business value.

Other Functions:

• Supports enterprise planning and prioritization activities by maintaining intake artifacts (charters, business cases, high-level estimates) and ensuring readiness for governance reviews.
• Contributes to continuous improvement of project and portfolio delivery by refining templates, dashboards, and reporting cadences; captures lessons learned and drives adoption of best practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

No supervisory responsibilities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required and a minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience managing complex, enterprise-level projects (multi-workstream and cross-departmental), including schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder engagement; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, complex initiatives from concept through delivery, including defining scope, building integrated plans, managing dependencies, and driving adoption/change across diverse teams.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and/or a strategic portfolio, with the ability to prioritize, negotiate tradeoffs, and deliver outcomes in a dynamic environment.
• Strong risk and issue management skills, including comfort operating with discretion and sound judgment in complex,…