Project Manager III
Location: Denver, CO (Remote) prefer local candidates.
Duration: 6-Month Contract (Potential Extension)
Note: While this position is fully remote, local candidates in the Denver, CO area are strongly preferred due to stakeholder alignment, collaboration requirements, and the potential for occasional onsite meetings if needed.
Job Summary
Our client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex enterprise technology initiatives from planning through implementation. This individual will serve in a dual role as both Technical Project Manager and Scrum Master, driving project execution, Agile delivery, stakeholder engagement, financial management, and vendor coordination.
The ideal candidate combines strong project leadership, financial management expertise, Agile delivery experience, and the ability to successfully manage enterprise SaaS implementations involving procurement, finance, analytics, and data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Project Management
- Own end-to-end delivery of enterprise technology projects, ensuring successful execution against scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
- Establish and maintain project governance, execution cadence, release readiness processes, and deployment planning activities.
- Partner with business leaders, Product Owners, executive sponsors, and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and project success.
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, dependencies, milestones, and resource forecasts.
- Coordinate with internal technology teams, implementation partners, and vendors to ensure timely delivery of project commitments.
- Prepare executive-level status reports, Steering Committee presentations, dashboards, and project updates.
- Facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), training, onboarding, and adoption activities.
- Manage project documentation, artifacts, and compliance requirements using SharePoint, JIRA, and Confluence.
- Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) and drive mitigation and resolution activities.
Financial & Budget Management
- Own project budget management throughout the project lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain project budgets, forecasts, and financial tracking models.
- Monitor actual spend versus forecast and communicate financial performance to leadership.
- Manage:
- CapEx and OpEx allocations
- Vendor contracts and SOW spending
- Forecasting and variance analysis
- Financial reporting
- Project Change Requests (PCRs)
- Partner closely with Finance teams on project funding, forecasting, and budget approvals.
Vendor & Governance Management
- Manage vendor relationships and implementation partner deliverables.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise governance processes including architecture reviews, security reviews, access controls, and audit requirements.
- Coordinate stakeholder reviews and approvals throughout project delivery.
Scrum Master Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including:
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Stand-Ups
- Sprint Reviews
- Retrospectives
- Partner with Product Owners to maintain prioritized and refined backlogs.
- Ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, and sprint goals are clearly defined.
- Track team velocity, sprint progress, burndown metrics, and release readiness.
- Remove delivery impediments and manage cross-team dependencies.
- Coach teams on Agile best practices while balancing delivery needs and reporting requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives and implement process enhancements identified through retrospectives.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of IT Project Management experience delivering enterprise technology projects.
- Proven experience managing enterprise SaaS implementations.
- Strong project budget and financial management experience, including:
- Budget development
- Forecasting
- Variance analysis
- CapEx/OpEx tracking
- Vendor spend management
- Statement of Work (SOW) management
- Project Change Requests (PCRs)
- Minimum 3+ years of Scrum Master experience supporting Agile delivery teams.
- Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and managing Agile project execution.
- Experience with AI, Machine Learning, Analytics, Data Platform, or Cloud-related initiatives.
- Knowledge of procurement, sourcing, finance, and accounting business processes.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with:
- ServiceNow
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Apptio
- TargetProcess
- Oracle EBS
- Oracle Cloud
- Coupa
- BigQuery
- Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
- Experience supporting enterprise procurement or financial transformation initiatives.
- Product Management experience.
- Experience working with AI-driven business solutions and analytics platforms.
Certifications
- PMP Certification strongly preferred.
- Scrum Certification strongly preferred:
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
Required Skills
- Technical Project Management
- Agile/Scrum
- Budget & Financial Management
- Forecasting & Variance Analysis
- Vendor Management
- Executive Reporting
- RAID Management
- Release Management
- UAT Coordination
- Stakeholder Management
- SaaS Implementations
- JIRA & Confluence
- Procurement & Finance Systems
- AI / Analytics Project Delivery
