Principal Project Manager
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About the Role
Accountable for strategic leadership and delivery of complex cybersecurity programs, requiring skills in project management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
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Responsibilities
- Define, prioritize, and govern the portfolio ensuring alignment with corporate strategy, risk appetite, and business objectives
- Develop and maintain a strategic roadmap that integrates multiple programs and drives measurable business value
- Design and implement project management frameworks, governance structures, and performance metrics
- Oversee end to end execution of interdependent workstreams, coordinating senior project managers and stakeholders
- Lead proactive identification, quantitative analysis, and mitigation of high severity risks at the portfolio level
- Own multi year program budgets, conduct cost benefit analyses, and monitor financial performance
- Produce concise, data driven executive reports, dashboards, and briefings
- Define and oversee strategic relationships with key vendors and third party service providers
- Mentor senior project managers and emerging leaders, fostering a culture of excellence
- Identify and drive efficiencies, standardization, and automation opportunities across the delivery lifecycle
Requirements
- Experience in leading complex, high visibility programs
- Ability to define and govern a portfolio aligned with corporate strategy
- Strong risk management and financial oversight skills
- Executive level communication and reporting skills
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Overview
- The Principal Project Manager is accountable for the strategic leadership and end to end delivery of the organization's most complex, high visibility cybersecurity and physical security programs.
- Operating at the executive level, the Principal Project Manager defines portfolio wide objectives, aligns cross functional initiatives with corporate strategy, and ensures that all projects achieve superior business value, risk mitigation, and compliance outcomes.
Core Responsibilities
- Define, prioritize, and govern the portfolio ensuring alignment with corporate strategy, risk appetite, and business objectives.
- Develop and maintain a strategic roadmap that integrates multiple programs, identifies synergies, and drives measurable business value.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve project management frameworks, governance structures, and performance metrics to ensure consistency, transparency, and accountability, while enforcing compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and security standards.
- Oversee end to end execution of interdependent workstreams, coordinating senior project managers, architects, engineers, security specialists, procurement, finance, and external partners to deliver integrated plans, schedules, budgets, and resource allocations that are realistic, optimized, and stra
- Lead proactive identification, quantitative analysis, and mitigation of high severity risks, issues, and cross project dependencies at the portfolio level, maintaining robust risk registers, contingency plans, and timely escalations.
- Own multi year program budgets, conduct cost benefit analyses, monitor financial performance, forecast variances, and ensure optimal ROI; validate benefit realization against business case assumptions and report outcomes to senior leadership.
- Produce concise, data driven executive reports, dashboards, and briefings that synthesize project health, financial status, risk exposure, and strategic recommendations, providing actionable insights for informed decision making.
- Define and oversee strategic relationships with key vendors, contractors, and third party service providers, ensuring contractual compliance, performance standards, and conduct high level negotiations, performance reviews, and issue resolution.
- Mentor senior project managers and emerging leaders, fostering a culture of excellence, continuous improvement, and high performance delivery; champion professional development, certification pathways, and best in class project management practices.
- Identify and drive efficiencies, standardization, and automation opportunities across the delivery lifecycle, and maturing processes.
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