Project Director

Job title: Project Director

About the Role The Project Director is the executive owner and governor for the company’s most complex, high-value, and strategically important software implementation programs. This role manages executive relationships, navigates organizational politics, coordinates multi-project dependencies, and ensures realization of client business value across multi-year engagements. Provides high-level guidance to Project Managers.

What You'll Do

• Establish and chair the client-side Steering Committee meetings, providing strategic updates, managing high-level risks, and securing executive sign-off on major program milestones and funding.
• Define the overall program roadmap and business case for multi-year, multi-phase engagements, ensuring alignment between technical delivery and the client’s long-term strategic objectives.
• Navigate and resolve political or organizational blockers at the C-suite and VP level on both the client and Centric side.
• Conduct strategic reviews of individual project plans managed by PMs, proactively identifying systemic risks, resource conflicts, and commercial threats before they impact delivery.
• Oversee the consolidated program budget, manage the P&L for the entire engagement, and ensure all contract terms, change orders, and invoicing milestones are met to maximize commercial success.
• Mentor Project Managers (PMs) on applying Centric PMO methodology to extremely large-scale and non-standard project environments while ensuring core compliance standards are maintained.
• Review the budget forecast and resource allocation forecast prepared by the PMs and ensure its comprehensiveness and accuracy.

What We're Looking For

• Required Technical Mastery: Expert, demonstrable experience leading, multi-year, multi-stream software implementation programs. Deep understanding of financial management, revenue recognition, and program control frameworks.
• Organizational Knowledge: Extensive experience successfully executing programs within complex, global enterprise client environments, particularly navigating matrixed organizational structures.
• Specific Certification/Training: Advanced Program Management is strongly preferred.
• Leadership/Influence: Proven executive presence and a track record of driving large-scale change, influences strategies and securing commitments from senior, often resistant, stakeholders.

Compensation & Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is Negotiable.
• Salary ranges are determined by role, level and location; within the range, pay is determined by work location and factors including job-related skills, experience and education or training.
• Compensation details may include additional variable incentives.
• Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.