SF Senior Project Manager

Role Summary:

Leads complex multi-workstream HRTech transformation programs, providing strategic project governance, executive client partnership, and cross-team leadership at scale. Carries competency leadership accountability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Program & Portfolio Leadership: Lead large, complex multi-workstream HRTech programs. Define program governance structures, frameworks, and reporting cadence.
• Executive Stakeholder Management: Manage C-suite and senior executive stakeholder relationships across client and RA. Lead steer co presentations and drive program decision-making.
• Strategic Risk Management: Anticipate program-level risks and design mitigation strategies. Lead escalation response for critical program issues.
• Team Development & People Leadership: Build and develop high-performing project management teams. Coach Project Managers and drive continuous PMO capability uplift. Define team KPIs, conduct performance reviews, and design development plans.
• PMO Excellence: Drive continuous improvement across PMO standards and practices. Contribute to RA's delivery frameworks and intellectual capital.

Functional Competency:

• Program Execution: Optimises multi-track delivery aligned with business priorities.
• Risk Management: Drives enterprise-level risk strategies across large programs and portfolios.
• Portfolio Governance: Manages escalations and ensures alignment across programs.
• Commercial Awareness: Manages delivery margins, resourcing, and scope risk.

Behavioural Competency:

• Leadership: Shapes vision and leads large, diverse teams strategically.
• Task Ownership: Leads end-to-end delivery with accountability and foresight.
• Executive Client Management: Manages executive-level discussions with professionalism.
• Stakeholder Management: Drives multi-stakeholder alignment across functions/geographies.
• Escalation Management: Builds escalation protocols and diffuses high-stakes situations.
• Problem Solving: Anticipates issues and develops systemic solutions.
• Change Attitude: Champions innovation and builds change readiness in teams.
• Consulting Skills: Guides clients through ambiguity and change.
• Team Leadership: Shapes team culture and enables succession planning.
• People Development: Leads development plans and talent initiatives.
• Mentoring: Creates mentoring programs and nurtures future leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree: MSP or PMP required or Product recommended Project Management Certification (preferred).
• 10–15 years of project/program management in large-scale HRTech transformations.
• Proven ability to lead programs with multiple workstreams and geographies.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven track record in people development and team capability building.
• Certifications: PMP / MSP / PRINCE2 Practitioner (required) or Product recommended Project Management Certification (preferred).