Senior Project Management Specialist

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** This position can be performed remotely for candidates who reside in the Des Moines, Iowa metro area**

The Senior Project Management Specialist leads projects with varying complexity and organizational impact. This role develops integrated project plans, manages scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, and change impacts, and partners across business, product, technology, delivery, process, and change management teams to align execution with business objectives. Builds stakeholder and leadership alignment, provides executive-ready updates, drives issue resolution, and promotes consistent project delivery practices through guidance, governance, and continuous improvement.

Leads projects to successful completion:

• Leads projects with varying complexity organizational impact, risk, and visibility
• Develops and manages comprehensive project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, and implementation strategies
• Directly manages projects within larger programs, including projects that require integrated planning across business, product, technology, delivery, and process teams
• Establishes integrated project plans that align scope, timelines, dependencies, delivery commitments, process impacts, and operational readiness

Builds alignment among stakeholders and leaders:

• Establishes strong partnerships with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and key stakeholders
• Partners with Program Management, Digital Product Management, Agile Delivery, Business Process Management, and Change Management to coordinate execution across initiatives and align business objectives, product priorities, delivery commitments, process changes, and operational outcomes
• Facilitates resolution of dependencies and competing priorities across business, product, delivery, process management, and technology functions
• Provides executive-ready updates on progress, risks, issues, trade-offs, and outcomes to senior leaders and key stakeholder

Manages project complexity, risk, and organizational impact:

• Identifies, evaluates, manages, and escalates project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, trade-offs, and change impacts
• Ensures appropriate change management, communication, stakeholder engagement, process readiness, and adoption activities are incorporated into project plans
• Develops mitigation strategies and drives resolution of issues that may affect project outcomes
• Develops and delivers executive-ready project status updates that communicate progress, risks, issues, trade-offs, dependencies, delivery confidence, and decision needs to sponsors, stakeholders, and leadership teams

Promotes effective project delivery practices:

• Provides guidance and informal mentoring to project teams
• Supports consistency in project management methodologies, tools, reporting, governance practices, and cross-functional delivery partnership
• Champions continuous improvement in project management practices, governance, reporting, delivery partnership, and process alignment

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• Five years of experience in project management or a related field

• Program or project management certifications such as PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, or related credentials preferred

• Excellent knowledge of project management methodologies, governance practices, and delivery management principles

• Ability to lead several concurrent projects…