Project Delivery & Assurance Sr. Director

Job description

Manages translation of the Project Delivery & Assurance plan into delivery roadmaps, milestones, and controls aligned with EPMO methodologies and governance requirements. Develops structured intake mechanisms to capture Sales and Product Management requests, prioritize classifications, and register project charters for planning and control. Supervises project scoping with EPMO, defining objectives, deliverables, resources, and contributors, and confirms roles, interfaces, and milestone commitments. Facilitates stakeholder mapping and communication cadences, establishing protocols for planning decisions, escalations, approvals, and periodic progress reporting. Coordinates feasibility reviews with Pre‑Sales and Product Development to validate technical specifications, dependencies, and approvals before implementation. Reviews and validates detailed cost estimates and project budgets, aligning allocations with Delegation of Authority thresholds and setting monitoring routines for financial control. Manages RAID identification and maintenance, documenting risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, mitigations, and triggers. Monitors project delivery against scope, schedule, and quality baselines, validating interim deliverables and escalating conflicts or delays for timely resolution. Reviews testing plans with Product QA/QC, confirming coverage against acceptance criteria and addressing unresolved defects. Reviews cutover strategies and data migration plans with Product Deployment & Integration, confirming feasibility and approvals before rollout. Coordinates vendor engagement information with Procurement and Finance, tracking performance obligations, variation orders, and payment milestones. Monitors integrated dashboards covering timelines, budgets, quality metrics, defects, and benefits, consolidating periodic status updates for EPMO and senior stakeholders. Conducts benefits tracking against baselines, documents realized outcomes, and submits structured reports for EPMO review and Strategy Management validation. Consolidates lessons learned, vendor performance evaluations, and process gaps, developing improvement backlogs, templates, and toolkits to strengthen future project delivery practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• minimum of 11 years of relevant experience
• at least 4 years of experience in a leadership role
• certifications in PMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-RMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or AgilePM (optional)

Skills