Manager, Strategic Initiatives

🕒 August 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧐 Strategy

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Trace3

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Private Equity Round on 2017-06

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Trace3 is an IT consulting organization specializing in AI, data, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions. Founded 20 years ago, the company focuses on empowering organizations to adapt to the evolving IT landscape by providing strategic consulting services and innovative solutions. Trace3 has a strong presence in the technology consulting space, with partnerships in areas such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, cloud solutions, and security consulting. They aim to help businesses run, grow, and transform by leveraging cutting-edge technology to drive results in the data-driven economy. Trace3 is also involved in cloud migration, AI data readiness, and venture capital relations to offer a holistic technology consulting experience.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of project managers delivering high-priority strategic initiatives • Personally manage complex, highly visible, executive-sponsored projects as a player-coach • Assign work based on business priorities, project complexity, team capacity, and development needs • Establish project management standards, templates, governance routines, and reporting expectations • Partner with the Director of Strategic Initiatives on portfolio planning, prioritization, resource allocation, and department objectives • Lead identification, scoping, planning, and end-to-end delivery of strategic initiatives • Translate executive objectives into project charters, requirements, work plans, milestones, success measures, and governance structures • Manage deliverables, timelines, budgets, dependencies, risks, issues, and business outcomes • Develop business cases, implementation recommendations, and resource plans • Facilitate cross-functional planning and decision-making with executives, business leaders, technology teams, subject matter experts, and external partners • Manage stakeholder communications and executive-level reporting • Drive resolution of delivery barriers and escalate decisions or resource constraints • Ensure operational readiness through communications, training, process documentation, transition planning, and post-implementation support • Track adoption, financial impact, operational improvements, and other agreed benefits • Apply business analysis and process improvement techniques, including requirements gathering, process mapping, data analysis, interviews, and policy reviews • Lead project closeout, lessons learned, benefit handoff, documentation, and transition to business owners • Maintain visibility across the strategic initiatives portfolio, including status, capacity, priorities, interdependencies, and delivery risk • Support initiative intake and prioritization • Coordinate sequencing across initiatives and manage shared resources and dependencies • Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, roadmaps, schedules, RAID logs, decision logs, and governance materials • Prepare and facilitate governance meetings, steering committees, working sessions, and executive updates • Monitor portfolio health and recommend corrective actions, reprioritization, or escalation • Continuously improve delivery methods and department processes • Lead or support acquisition integration planning and execution when assigned • Coordinate integration workstreams and system, process, and data migration initiatives • Assess acquired-company processes and recommend alignment with Trace3 operating models, policies, systems, and controls • Support requirements capture, future-state process documentation, data validation, and business readiness

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in project, program, or strategic initiative management within Information Technology, Professional Services, or a similarly complex business environment • Minimum 3 years of direct people leadership experience, including coaching project managers, managing performance, and developing team capability • Demonstrated success operating as a player-coach while leading a team and directly delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives • Proven ability to manage concurrent initiative portfolios, balance resources and priorities, and provide portfolio-level reporting to senior leadership • Track record delivering business and technology initiatives with measurable outcomes, including process, system, data, organizational, or integration-related change • Strong knowledge of project and program management methodologies, governance, requirements management, risk management, and organizational change management • PMP, PgMP, CSM, or comparable project/program management certification preferred • Strong business and financial acumen, including evaluating tradeoffs, developing business cases, and connecting execution to business outcomes • Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage changing priorities, and make sound decisions in a dynamic environment • Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, including communicating complex matters to C-level executives and non-technical audiences • Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong judgment, follow-through, time management, and problem-solving skills • Proficiency with project and portfolio management tools and Microsoft applications, including Visio, Project, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents • 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match • 529 College Savings Plan • Health Savings Account • Life Insurance • Long-Term Disability • Competitive Compensation • Training and development programs • Major offices stocked with snacks and beverages • Collaborative and cool culture • Work-life balance and generous paid time off • Variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, may be available for certain positions