Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Company: OpenPatternGroup Ventures
Employment type: Full-time
Working arrangement: On-site or hybrid, depending on business and project requirements
Lead Meaningful Projects from Strategy to Successful Delivery
OpenPatternGroup Ventures is seeking an experienced, organised, and people-focused Senior Project Manager to join our growing team in Montgomery.
This is a senior delivery role for someone who knows how to turn ambitious ideas into structured, achievable plans and guide people confidently through every stage of execution.
You will lead complex, cross-functional projects from initial planning through implementation and completion. You will work closely with senior leaders, internal teams, external partners, clients, and vendors to ensure projects are delivered safely, responsibly, on schedule, within budget, and to a consistently high standard.
We are looking for more than someone who manages timelines and produces status reports. We need a trusted leader who creates clarity, builds strong working relationships, anticipates problems, and helps teams perform at their best.
About OpenPatternGroup Ventures
OpenPatternGroup Ventures is a forward-thinking organisation focused on developing, supporting, and scaling high-potential business initiatives.
We bring together strategy, investment, operational expertise, and project execution to help promising ideas become sustainable ventures. Our work may span business transformation, technology, infrastructure, operational improvement, commercial development, and new-market opportunities.
We believe successful projects are built through clear thinking, disciplined execution, honest communication, and respect for the people doing the work.
As we continue to grow, we are building a team of capable professionals who take ownership, value collaboration, and are motivated by creating measurable results.
The Role
As Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading a portfolio of important projects and ensuring that each initiative has clear objectives, realistic plans, accountable owners, and effective governance.
You will establish the structure that enables teams to move forward with confidence. You will manage competing priorities, identify risks early, and communicate progress in a way that allows stakeholders to make informed decisions.
The role requires a strong combination of strategic judgement, operational discipline, commercial awareness, and emotional intelligence.
Key ResponsibilitiesProject Leadership and Delivery
- Lead complex projects from initiation and business-case development through planning, execution, handover, and post-project review.
- Define project scope, objectives, success measures, deliverables, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and resource requirements.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans that clearly show responsibilities, deadlines, critical paths, and decision points.
- Ensure project activities remain aligned with wider business priorities and agreed strategic outcomes.
- Create realistic delivery schedules and adjust plans appropriately when circumstances change.
- Maintain focus on quality, value, and long-term outcomes not simply task completion.
- Take responsibility for ensuring projects are formally closed, documented, and handed over to the appropriate operational teams.
Stakeholder Management
- Build productive relationships with senior executives, department leaders, project teams, clients, vendors, and external partners.
- Establish clear expectations and maintain open, professional communication throughout the project lifecycle.
- Translate complex project information into concise updates for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Facilitate project meetings, workshops, planning sessions, steering committees, and decision reviews.
- Manage disagreements constructively and help stakeholders reach practical, evidence-based decisions.
- Escalate critical issues at the appropriate time, with clear recommendations rather than simply reporting problems.
- Ensure stakeholders understand how changes in scope, budget, resources, or timing may affect project outcomes.
Risk, Issue, and Change Management
- Identify project risks, constraints, assumptions, and dependencies at an early stage.
- Maintain accurate risk, issue, decision, and action logs.
- Develop practical mitigation and contingency plans.
- Lead issue-resolution activities and ensure actions have clear owners and deadlines.
- Manage project changes through a structured and transparent change-control process.
- Protect projects from uncontrolled scope expansion while remaining responsive to legitimate business needs.
- Monitor emerging risks across multiple projects and identify potential portfolio-level impacts.
Financial and Commercial Management
- Prepare, manage, and monitor project budgets.
- Track expenditure, forecasts, commitments, and financial variances.
- Work with finance and leadership teams to maintain accurate reporting and financial controls.
- Support procurement, vendor selection, contract discussions, and supplier performance management.
- Challenge costs constructively and identify opportunities to improve value without compromising quality.
- Ensure commercial decisions are documented, authorised, and aligned with the organisation’s objectives.
Team Leadership
- Create a collaborative environment where team members understand their roles, priorities, and responsibilities.
- Provide direction while giving specialists the space and trust to contribute their expertise.
- Coach and support project managers, coordinators, and other team members.
- Help resolve resource conflicts and competing priorities across departments.
- Encourage accountability while maintaining a respectful and solutions-focused culture.
- Recognise strong performance and address delivery concerns promptly and fairly.
- Support the development of project-management capability across the wider organisation.
Governance and Reporting
- Establish appropriate governance arrangements for each project.
- Produce clear and accurate progress reports covering schedule, budget, scope, risks, issues, resources, and expected outcomes.
- Present project updates and recommendations to senior leadership and governance groups.
- Maintain complete, organised, and auditable project documentation.
- Ensure key decisions, approvals, changes, and lessons learned are properly recorded.
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools that give leaders a reliable view of project health and performance.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of project-management standards, templates, systems, and processes.
What Success Looks Like
Within your first several months, you will be expected to:
- Develop a strong understanding of OpenPatternGroup Ventures, its portfolio, priorities, and ways of working.
- Build trusted relationships with leadership teams, project contributors, and external stakeholders.
- Review active projects and identify key delivery risks, gaps, and opportunities.
- Establish clear governance, reporting, and accountability across your assigned projects.
- Bring structure and momentum to complex or high-priority initiatives.
- Improve visibility into project performance, budget, risks, and resource needs.
- Deliver early improvements that strengthen confidence among project teams and senior leaders.
- Become a dependable source of judgement, clarity, and practical problem-solving.
Over time, success will be measured by your ability to deliver valuable outcomes, improve project predictability, strengthen stakeholder confidence, and help teams work more effectively.
Qualifications and Experience
The successful candidate will ideally have:
- At least seven years of progressive project-management or programme-delivery experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders.
- A strong record of delivering projects within agreed scope, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, resources, vendors, and commercial arrangements.
- Strong knowledge of project planning, governance, risk management, change control, and reporting.
- Experience presenting to senior executives and supporting high-level decision-making.
- The ability to manage several priorities without losing control of important details.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
- Confidence working with ambiguity and developing structure where processes are still evolving.
- Proficiency with project-management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Monday.com, Asana, Jira, Trello, or similar platforms.
- Strong competence using Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, or comparable business-productivity tools.
- A bachelor’s degree in business, project management, engineering, construction, technology, finance, operations, or a related field—or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
The following would be advantageous but are not essential:
- Project Management Professional certification.
- PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable professional certification.
- Experience in venture development, consulting, investment, technology, construction, infrastructure, operations, or business transformation.
- Experience establishing or improving a project management office.
- Knowledge of portfolio and programme management.
- Experience supporting business cases, due diligence, acquisitions, partnerships, or new-venture launches.
- Familiarity with data analysis, performance dashboards, and executive-level reporting.
- Experience working in a growing or rapidly changing organisation.
The Person We Are Looking For
You are likely to thrive in this role if you are:
- Highly organised without becoming unnecessarily bureaucratic.
- Calm and credible when projects become challenging.
- Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
- Honest about risks and willing to raise concerns early.
- Commercially aware and able to connect project decisions with business outcomes.
- Confident enough to challenge assumptions respectfully.
- Skilled at bringing together people with different priorities and perspectives.
- Focused on solutions rather than blame.
- Adaptable, practical, and comfortable in a growing organisation.
- Attentive to detail while maintaining sight of the wider objective.
- Dependable and committed to following through on promises.
- Motivated by helping people deliver work they can be proud of.
What We Offer
OpenPatternGroup Ventures is committed to creating a professional and supportive environment where capable people can build meaningful careers.
Our benefits package is expected to include:
- Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.
- Performance-related bonus opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
- Employer-supported retirement savings.
- Generous paid time off.
- Paid company holidays.
- Paid sick leave and personal days.
- Flexible or hybrid working arrangements where appropriate.
- Professional-development funding.
- Support for recognised certifications and continuing education.
- Access to modern project-management tools and technology.
- Opportunities to lead important and visible projects.
- Regular career and performance-development conversations.
- Mentoring and leadership-development opportunities.
- Employee wellbeing support.
- A collaborative culture where good ideas are welcomed.
- Direct exposure to senior decision-makers and business leaders.
- The opportunity to influence how projects and ventures are delivered as the organisation grows.
Final benefits will depend on the approved employment package, company policies, and eligibility requirements.
Why Join OpenPatternGroup Ventures?
This is an opportunity to join a growing organisation at a stage where your experience can make a visible difference.
You will not be limited to maintaining established processes. You will have the opportunity to improve how projects are planned, governed, communicated, and delivered.
Your work will directly influence business priorities, operational performance, and the success of new ventures. You will be trusted to exercise judgement, challenge weak assumptions, and help leaders make informed decisions.
Most importantly, you will join a team that values professionalism, accountability, practical thinking, and respectful collaboration.
Equal Opportunity
OpenPatternGroup Ventures is committed to equal employment opportunity.
We welcome applicants from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, capability, potential, and the requirements of the role.
Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruitment process for applicants who require them.
How to Apply
Please submit your résumé together with a brief cover letter or professional introduction explaining:
- Why you are interested in joining OpenPatternGroup Ventures.
- The types of projects you have led.
- An example of a complex project you successfully delivered.
- How you handled a significant challenge, risk, or stakeholder disagreement.
- Your availability and preferred working arrangement.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
Join OpenPatternGroup Ventures and help turn ambitious plans into well-managed, measurable results.
Pay: $91,442.89 - $110,124.77 per year
Work Location: In person
