Senior Project Manager

About Invesco

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

Your Role

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex, high-visibility initiatives that span multiple teams, business functions, technologies, and external partners. This role requires an experienced leader who can drive execution in ambiguous environments, establish structure where none exists, and influence decisions across all levels of the organization.

This individual will guide initiatives through business case development, funding approval, planning, execution, governance, operational transition, and benefits measurement. The successful candidate must be comfortable presenting options and tradeoffs, challenging assumptions, and driving accountability across stakeholders.

The ideal candidate has successfully led large-scale technology, security, risk, audit, or transformation projects involving multiple workstreams, significant budgets, executive visibility, and competing priorities.

Oversees, plans and implements special projects related to existing and new technology initiatives. Typically focuses on cost and efficiency related to long-term solutions.

You will be responsible for:

Strategic Project Leadership

• Lead complex initiatives consisting of multiple interconnected workstreams, initiatives, and stakeholders.
• Define project objectives, success criteria, roadmaps, milestones, and measurable business outcomes.
• Establish governance structures and decision-making processes that enable effective execution.
• Create clarity and alignment in environments with evolving priorities, requirements, and organizational dependencies.
• Drive collaboration across business, technology, security, legal, compliance, finance, procurement, operations, and external partners.

Business Case Development and Planning

• Develop business cases, funding requests, executive presentations, cost estimates, and benefits analyses.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, and delivery timelines aligned to approved business objectives.
• Partner with subject matter experts and leadership teams to validate assumptions, estimates, risks, and projected outcomes.

Project Execution and Delivery

• Drive delivery across the project lifecycle, from inception through implementation and closeout.
• Manage scope, schedule, quality, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, interlocks, and change activities.
• Build and maintain project plans, work breakdown structures, critical paths, milestones, dependencies, and implementation plans.
• Track actual effort and internal hours against approved estimates and planned allocations.
• Identify schedule variances, resource constraints, risks, and issues
• Coordinate activities across internal teams, external partners, and project stakeholders to ensure alignment on deliverables, timelines, and commitments.
• Maintain project documentation, RAID logs, action items, decisions, accomplishments, upcoming deliverables, and status updates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Recommend course corrections when scope, schedule, assumptions, or expected value changes.

Executive Communication and Governance

• Prepare executive-ready presentations, status reports, dashboards, and strategic updates.
• Facilitate steering committees, governance forums, leadership
• Ensure stakeholders have clear visibility into project health, progress, financials, dependencies, decisions, and expected outcomes.

Effort Tracking and Constraint Management

• Track internal hours, vendor effort, and delivery progress against approved estimates and planned project allocations.
• Surface material variances, capacity constraints, schedule impacts, and dependency risks early.

Vendor and Third-Party Management

• Support vendor evaluations, selection activities, and implementation planning.
• Manage vendor performance, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.
• Ensure third-party delivery aligns with strategic objectives, enterprise standards, risk requirements, and governance processes.

AI-Enabled and Data-Driven Delivery

• Use AI-enabled tools to improve planning, estimation, analysis, reporting, risk identification, and decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, governance, and
• Ensure responsible AI use aligns with enterprise policies, confidentiality, data protection, and governance requirements.

Value Realization and Operational Transition

• Define and track key performance indicators, risk reduction measures, business outcomes, and value realization metrics.
• Lead formal closeout, including delivery validation, financial reconciliation, documentation, and lessons learned.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and communicate realized benefits against approved business cases and strategic objectives.

Leadership and Capability Building

• Build trusted partnerships across distributed and cross-functional teams.
• Promote consistent project management standards, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Foster accountability, transparency, proactive communication, ownership, and results-oriented execution.

The Experience you Brings

• 10+ years of experience leading large, complex, cross-functional projects or initiatives in global environments.
• Proven experience supporting complex, executive-facing projects with significant business, technology, risk, or operational impact.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple concurrent projects and interconnected workstreams.
• Experience developing business cases, funding requests, cost estimates, benefits measures, and executive presentations.
• Strong experience with project governance, reporting, dependency management, RAID tracking, and effort tracking against approved estimates.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and facilitate executive decision-making using clear options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, third-party delivery, and enterprise technology implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to make accountable delivery decisions, including escalation, scope tradeoffs, reprioritization, pausing or stopping work, and resetting expectations.
• Advanced proficiency with PowerPoint, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Planner, and related enterprise tools.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to support planning, analysis, reporting, and decision-making.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading technology, cybersecurity, audit, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience delivering enterprise platform implementations and large-scale technology deployments involving multiple integrations and operational stakeholders.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, enterprise applications, security operations, identity and access management, data protection, vulnerability or exposure management, and governance projects.
• Experience supporting portfolio management, strategic planning, demand management, and investment governance processes.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification or experience.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

Pursuant to Invesco’s Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm’s most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other’s growth and development.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.