About this role
Description
The Senior Project Manager, Strategy Alignment is a senior individual-contributor role within LM Technology – Investment, Data, Experience’s (IDE) Strategy, Planning & Resiliency (SPR) team, with scope across all of IDE. This role provides the program-style coordination that keeps strategy, planning, and governance activities organized, visible, and moving: maintaining the planning calendar, running governance logistics, tracking actions and dependencies, maintaining working dashboards and trackers, and keeping the process-documentation repository and collaboration spaces current and ensuring alignment to enterprise best practices & standards. The Senior Project Manager – Strategy Alignment reports directly to the Senior Director, Strategy, Planning & Resiliency. The role works in close partnership with the Director of Planning, who leads planning cycles, prioritization, KPI definition, the executive narrative, and standards. The Senior PM supplies the coordination, data, and draft materials that feed those activities, consistent with how planning and project coordination standards. Success requires strong organization, attention to detail, discretion with sensitive information, and the ability to manage multiple priorities across a matrixed environment.
Hiring Manager: Arleen Cavanaugh
Key Responsibilities
Planning & Governance Support
- Collaborate with Executive Administration (EA) & Business Partners to define & maintain the IDE strategy and annual planning-cycle calendar, inputs, and deliverables, and follow up with contributors to keep submissions on schedule.
- Collect, organize, and consolidate stakeholder submissions and supporting data across IDE to support planning and prioritization discussions.
- Support ELT governance cadence & forums; assemble & distribute approved agendas, pre-reads, and other forum materials. Coordinate with EA staff on scheduling, attendees, and provide access controls within forums to protect sensitive information.
- Capture decisions and action items; track commitments, blockers, and escalations to closure, and report status to the Senior Director and Director of Planning each week.
- Collaborate with EA & IDE ELT to finalize logistics and materials for monthly, quarterly, and annual business reviews and reprioritization sessions.
- Coordinate IDE wide Internships and TechStart early-talent program.
- Align with enterprise cadence and work with IDE Leadership Team to identify need, budget, priority for next cycle.
- Provide onboarding training and support for new hires.
- Provide support to Planning Director for IDE ELT for special events including offsites, team-building events, all hands/town halls. Collaborate with EA staff on scheduling, attendees, and provide access controls to protect sensitive information.
- Provide project coordination for non-technology special projects crossing IDE e.g., Cyber Vulnerability Response Project
Reporting & Dashboard Support
- Collaborate with Director Planning to design, build and maintain working dashboards, trackers, roadmaps, dependency logs, risk/issue logs, and status rollups that feed executive reporting.
- Synthesize inputs from the ELT and stakeholders into draft summaries and presentation packs for review by the Director of Planning and Senior Director before distributing for broader consumption.
- Maintain the reporting inventory across IDE, identifying gaps, duplicates, and outdated content and recommending clean-up.
- Monitor status information and highlight data gaps, schedule slippage, and open dependencies so leadership can act on them early.
Process Documentation & Repository Upkeep
- Maintain an organized repository of current process documents, playbooks, templates, and operating procedures, with version control and approval tracking. Ensure availability and maintain appropriate access controls to all process documentation.
- Review documentation for accuracy and consistency against established standards; apply approved updates and flag discrepancies or outdated content.
- Coordinate document reviews and updates with owners and follow up until resolved.
Stakeholder Coordination & Collaboration Spaces
- Serve as the day-to-day coordination point for planning and governance logistics, fielding stakeholder requests and routing them to the appropriate owner.
- Maintain SharePoint and Teams collaboration spaces so materials are current, accessible, and easy to find.
- Distribute planning outcomes, governance decisions, and next steps, keeping messaging consistent with IDE Strategy leadership priorities.
Strategy Alignment Support
- Help maintain visibility from strategy to execution by keeping trackers, roadmaps, and status rollups aligned with current IDE priorities.
- Apply and maintain standards for templates, tooling, and recurring reporting outputs; offer practitioner feedback on usability and gaps.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10 years of experience to include project/program management, PMO, strategy support, planning, or governance coordination.
- Experience supporting executive-level planning, reporting, or governance activities.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills; able to manage multiple priorities and follow work through to closure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to draft concise, decision-ready summaries for executive audiences.
- Strong proficiency in business process mapping and documentation practices.
- Strong proficiency with BI reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Domo), Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and project tracking tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise data, technology strategy, or enterprise transformation or enablement functions.
- Familiarity with governance processes, operating cadences, and portfolio tracking.
- Experience in a highly matrixed, global, product-focused organization.
- PMP or similar project/program management certification.
- Strong attention to detail and good judgment in handling sensitive information.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and coordinate across diverse stakeholders with minimal oversight.
Employees may apply for a new role after completing 12 months of employment in their current position.
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