Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sonic Automotive is a large automotive and powersports retailer operating across multiple business segments. The Senior Project Manager will lead complex, cross-functional enterprise projects through the full project lifecycle, applying EPMO governance standards, managing stakeholders and vendors, mitigating risks, and ensuring delivery aligns with strategic objectives and benefits.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of complex, cross-functional projects
- Manage all phases of the project lifecycle using EPMO governance standards, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and at expected quality levels
- Demonstrate exceptional interpersonal, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to guide stakeholders throughout all organizational levels
- Organize, facilitate, and lead project governance, planning, status, risk, and executive steering committee meetings
- Develop and deliver concise, executive-level project communications, dashboards, and status reports that provide clear visibility into project health, milestones, risks, and dependencies
- Partner closely with executive sponsors, business leaders, product owners, and cross-functional teams to define project objectives, scope, success metrics, and business outcomes
- Establish and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, communication plans, and governance documentation throughout the project lifecycle
- Proactively identify project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, developing mitigation and contingency plans while escalating critical concerns to leadership when appropriate
- Facilitate team meetings and working sessions
- Facilitate resolution of complex project challenges by driving collaboration and alignment among stakeholders
- Build and sustain strong working relationships across business units, technology teams, vendors, and executive leadership to foster collaboration and successful project delivery
- Lead cross-functional project teams without direct reporting authority, motivating team members through influence, accountability, and shared ownership of project outcomes
- Effectively manage multiple, concurrent projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced enterprise environment while maintaining high standards of quality and execution
- Monitor project performance using key performance indicators (KPIs), milestones, and communicate progress and recommend corrective actions as needed
- Ensure adherence to the department’s project management methodologies, governance standards, compliance requirements, SDLC methodology, and quality management practices across assigned projects
- Demonstrate the ability to independently manage highly visible, strategic initiatives with minimal supervision while maintaining executive confidence and stakeholder trust
- Manage relationships with project vendors and third parties—tracking deliverables, milestones, dependencies, performance, and risks, and escalating contractual or service issues in close partnership with Procurement, Legal, and business stakeholders
- Build and maintain project resource plans; spot capacity, capability, and resource constraints early, then work with functional leaders to resolve competing priorities and conflicts
- Keep project deliverables tightly aligned with strategic objectives, business outcomes, and approved benefits; partner with sponsors and benefit owners to define, measure, track, and report benefits realization through the full project lifecycle and into post-implementation
- Collaborate with business leaders and change-management teams to assess organizational impacts, business readiness, stakeholder adoption, training, communications, and transition needs so the outcomes stick
- Leverage project management technology, analytics, and AI-enabled tools where appropriate to improve planning, risk identification, forecasting, reporting, decision support, and delivery efficiency
- Coach, advise, and mentor project stakeholders on project management methodology and governance best practices
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of Project Management experience, including experience managing at the program level
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required
- Demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, including the ability to lead up, across, and down multiple business and technology organizations
- Flexible with proven ability to adapt to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Hands-on experience managing project resources, third-party vendors, and cross-functional capacity constraints in a matrixed environment
- Proven track record with integrated change control, organizational readiness, and driving stakeholder adoption across enterprise environments
- Experience with OKR/KPI frameworks and benefits realization
- Exceptional executive presence and ability to influence without authority
- Excellent verbal, written, collaboration, and team building skills
- Problem solver with the initiative to think critically to identify improvement opportunities
- Demonstrated ability to organize, coordinate, and execute details, while communicating the big picture to stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple, concurrent projects
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams and as an individual contributor
- Demonstrated systems-thinking capabilities and decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities
- Create and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders throughout the organization
- Creative and collaborative problem-solving skills, systems-thinking capabilities, and ability to drive results in a matrixed environment
- Experience in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Experience using Monday.com, Jira, and Confluence (preferred)
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- Remote work arrangement
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