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Job Summary: 

The NRG Consumer Home Cross Functional Project Team is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, large-scale, cross-functional initiatives across the Consumer Home portfolio. This role is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of strategic projects, including planning, execution, governance, financial management, risk mitigation, and executive-level communication.

The Senior Project Manager partners closely with senior business leaders, IT, and cross-functional delivery teams to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to defined business outcomes. The ideal candidate is customer-focused, highly organized, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed environment while managing ambiguity, risk, and competing priorities.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Project Leadership & Delivery Ownership:

• Owns the end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional projects from initiation through stabilization and closeout.

• Develops project charters defining scope, objectives, success metrics, assumptions, constraints, and clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
• Leads integrated project planning across all phases, including requirements, design, build/configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.
• Develops and maintains delivery roadmaps, detailed project plans, and milestone schedules across multiple workstreams and dependencies.
• Coordinates cross-functional resources to drive execution and resolve dependencies, constraints, and delivery risks.
• Demonstrates a hands-on leadership style and is willing to dive deep to resolve issues when required.

Governance, Risk and Financial & Change Management:

• Establishes and enforces project governance, controls, and standards to ensure consistent execution, transparency, and decision-making.
• Owns project-level budget, forecasting, financial tracking, and variance management.
• Identifies, assesses, and proactively manages project risks and issues; develops mitigation strategies and escalation plans with clear recommendations and trade-offs.
• Ensures adherence to approved scope and leads formal change control processes.
• Applies appropriate project management methodologies (waterfall or hybrid) based on project characteristics and delivery needs.
• Oversees requirements definition and approval processes, ensuring alignment and formal sign-off from all impacted business areas
• Maintains complete, accurate, and up-to-date project artifacts in accordance with established governance standards and is accountable for supporting project audits, including timely remediation of audit findings.

Stakeholder & Executive Management:

• Serves as the primary point of accountability for project stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Prepares and delivers clear, executive-level status reporting, risk assessments, and decision materials.
• Manages stakeholder expectations, facilitates alignment, and navigates complex or difficult conversations to drive timely decisions.
• Builds strong, trusted relationships across business, IT, and external partners; acts as a central coordination hub.
• Coordinates with external vendors or delivery partners as applicable, ensuring alignment to project objectives, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Manages vendor dependencies and delivery risks in partnership with procurement and business stakeholders.

Business Value & Outcomes:

• Partners with business stakeholders to ensure projects remain aligned to intended business objectives and value.
• Tracks delivery against defined success metrics and supports post-implementation review and benefits realization, where applicable.

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment
• Occasional overtime during critical delivery periods
• Minimal Travel

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 8 years of project management experience delivering complex, enterprise-level initiatives
• Minimum 3–5 years leading large-scale, cross-functional projects
• Strong background in project planning, delivery governance, and financial management
• Demonstrated experience with waterfall project management (hybrid experience preferred)
• Proven ability to create and deliver executive-level reporting and communications
• Experience delivering technology integration and/or data migration initiatives

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis capabilities
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, risk, and changing priorities
• Mentors and coaches project team members as needed
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority
• Ability to confidently navigate difficult conversations and competing stakeholder interests
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, Planner) and adaptability in using Enterprise PMM Tools

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