Lead IT Project Manager

Opentext - The Information Company Open Text is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered. At Open Text, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Open Text is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation. At Open Text, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers.

We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

The Lead IT Project Manager is an experienced project delivery leader responsible for managing complex, cross-functional IT projects from initiation through closure. This role owns the integrated project plan, governance cadence, risk and issue management, stakeholder communication, and delivery transparency required to achieve defined business outcomes. Working closely with Portfolio Managers, sponsors, Domain Leads, Enterprise Architects, technical teams, and business stakeholders, the Lead IT Project Manager translates business intent into an executable delivery approach, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, and benefits are clearly defined, governed, and actively managed.

• Lead complex IT projects from initiation through deployment and closure, ensuring delivery within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Translate portfolio priorities, sponsor objectives, and business needs into clear project charters, delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, and governance structures.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and delivery partners to drive execution, resolve blockers, and maintain alignment with business and technology objectives.

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, including work streams, milestones, dependencies, resource assumptions, financial tracking, and delivery constraints.
• Apply PMO methodology and Project Navigator practices to ensure required documentation, approvals, decision logs, change controls, and governance artifacts are complete and current.
• Manage project scope through structured planning, baseline control, impact assessment, and change management discipline.
• Support benefits definition and tracking by partnering with requestors and sponsors to clarify expected outcomes, success measures, and business value.

• Maintain accurate project status, health indicators, risks, issues, actions, decisions, financials, and schedule information in the approved system of record.
• Prepare clear, decision-oriented reporting for sponsors, Portfolio Managers, Steer Co forums, and senior stakeholders, highlighting delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and required actions.
• Proactively identify risks and issues, develop mitigation plans, elevate appropriately, and drive timely resolution across business and technical teams.

• Serve as the primary project delivery contact for sponsors, Domain Leads, technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and PMO leadership.
• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, governance forums, and Steer Co discussions to maintain alignment, clarify decisions, and manage expectations.
• Communicate complex project information in a concise, audience-appropriate manner, ensuring stakeholders understand progress, risks, decisions, trade-offs, and next steps.

• Lead without direct authority by creating accountability, building trust, and enabling collaboration across cross-functional project teams.
• Mentor Project Managers and Project Coordinators by sharing delivery practices, governance expectations, lessons learned, and practical project management guidance.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned, identifying process gaps, and contributing to PMO standards, templates, reporting practices, and tool adoption.

• Use AI-enabled tools to improve project planning, meeting preparation, action tracking, status reporting, risk identification, and delivery insights.
• Apply AI responsibly within organizational governance, data…