Senior Project Manager (Data Analytics & Integration)

General Job Description: 

We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead project teams through Data Analytics & Integration technology transformations. This role will drive modernization and integration efforts involving platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Data Bricks, master data and quality data management processes and tools. Reporting to the Director of Project Portfolio Management (PMO), the ideal candidate has 7+ years of relevant, progressive experience, including successful delivery in mid-sized company transformations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional planning and orchestration of technology initiatives focused on delivering value-add decision support solutions via Data Analytics technology projects, comprised of data within ERP, Sales and other data sources within the organization.
• Partner with sponsors, business owners, analysts, and SMEs to define project scope, business case, ROI, resource needs, and vendor deliverables.
• Adhere, advocate and contribute improvements to PMO framework and project management standards. 
• Leveraging solid understanding of enterprise source data systems, partner with project sponsors, business process owners, business analysts, technical SMEs within Technology (IT), Finance, Accounting, Sales to organize, refine and document project business case, scope, goals, ROI/value argument, resource requirements, vendors services and project work deliverables, including Change Management.
• Build and drive ongoing refinement, updates and execution against a comprehensive project plan ensuring Assigned team members are well-informed of timelines and interdependencies – and capture estimating inputs from all team members.
• Oversee and drive projects that will upgrade finance and accounting systems to latest versions, improve data quality, and optimize usability of systems features.
• Oversee and drive projects that will contribute to Billing and Cost Analytics/Decision Support systems maturity by improving data quality, enabling latest systems capabilities and automation.
• Proactively communicate with internal Business Operations and Technology teams, external vendors, and stakeholders to ensure well-coordinated project execution, manage risks and issues and provide transparency to stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Partner with internal ACCO stakeholders on Change Management considerations to ensure a successful sequencing of communications, training and deployment of new reporting analytics across wider ACCO divisions.
• Collaborate with colleagues using multiple back-office productivity and collaboration tools: Smartsheet, Box, Google Workspace (Gmail, GCalendar, GChat, Gemini-AI), Zoom, Lucid Charts, PowerPoint, Jira.
• Partner with shared service --IT QA-- to ensure Quality Delivery via comprehensive test plans. In partnership with Technology Business Operations analysts, Business Process Owners, Developers (internal and external vendors).  Oversee completion of Day in the Life (DITL) aka User Acceptance Test (UAT) in non-production environments. Ensure technical QA testing is documented and executed successfully prior to UAT/DITL.
• Adhere, advocate and contribute improvements to PMO framework and project management standards.  Flex with technical groups working in Agile formats (Scrum, Kanban) to derive hybrid project plans.
• Orchestrate project resources and team members to ensure translation of high-level business cases and requirements are expanded into detailed Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), Technical Design Documents (TDD) and Technical Specifications (TS) to ensure lower-level technical configuration in systems are traceable to back to the FRS. 
• Partner with receiving Technology App/System Manager to compile “Transition to Support” Plan, including a Control Plan that defines when ROI confirmations are conducted to confirm ROI is achieved for PMO value-tracking analysis.
• Conduct project health assessments, lessons learned as directed by PMO, project sponsors.

Position Requirements (Skills, Knowledge, Abilities):

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, MIS, or related field.
• Project Management certification, in good standing. (PMP preferred; Prince2 considered).
• Deep understanding of modern data analytics, data integration, ETL technology platforms.
• Demonstrates strong team leadership, fluid partnering interaction style, clear and concise written & verbal communication skills. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; adept at executive-level presentations.
• Analytical mindset with problem-solving agility, can drive a high-level technical discussion with data integration developers,