ACARA Jobs
Project Manager Sr - PMO
Apply- ID: 558853
- Posted: 4/6/2026
- Location: San Antonio Texas,
- Category: Pro - Professional
- Job Type: Temporary
- Duration: 9 - 12 Months
Description
Job Title: Project Manager Sr - PMO
Location: San Antonio, TX.
Employment Type: Contract (12 months)
Industry: Energy and gas.
Compensation: $75
Schedule: 40.00 hrs/Week
About the Opportunity:
- Provide thought leadership in Project and Portfolio Management processes and execution.
- Establish and model leadership behaviours that build trust across PMO, project teams, and business partners.
- Demonstrate strong executive presence and manage expectations of senior and executive leadership.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience across industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive the business outcomes they seek. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- This position is a critical member of a team of highly effective Project Management professionals who are responsible for following client defined best practices for project value delivery.
- Possesses strong Executive presence along with the ability to manage and meet expectations of Senior and Executive leadership.
- Has significant experience successfully managing projects, people or departments.
- Demonstrates leadership and establishes trust within the PMO, project teams, and with business partners.
- Models the behaviors necessary to define, deploy and deliver project results at all levels of the organization.
- Understands, practices, and incorporates organizational change leadership into project management methodologies.
- Provides thought leadership regarding Project and Portfolio management processes and execution.
- Accountable for the leadership, planning, and execution of large and complex projects and programs with success identified as on time, on budget and defined value delivered.
- Accountable for the financial management of assigned projects, including but not limited to forecasting, accrual, reporting, and variance analysis.
- Accountable for timely and effective communication within the project team and across stakeholder groups.
- Accountable for supporting the results of a portfolio sequencing process and establish effective resource demand and capacity management to ensure resources are effectively deployed.
- Partners with the portfolio management function to ensure there is clear direction and execution of processes required to approve and prioritize portfolio and project demand.
- Accountable for managing and reporting on the projects in all stages across the portfolio.
- Accountable for leveraging and improving the necessary tools and practices for visibility and transparency for portfolios and projects.
- Effectively defines and deploys world-class Project Management practices and tools for project prioritization, planning and execution.
- Provides overall Project governance and oversight to ensure compliance to standards and to drive excellent execution.
- Develops Key Performance Indicators (KPI)/metrics, standard Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Project Management Service Catalog and reporting mechanisms.
- Coaches/mentors Project Managers to achieve and improve results.
- Actively seek ways to apply advanced techniques and technology to processes providing information on technical trends, reporting and automation.
- Demonstrated ability to learn, follow, and propose improvements to the Project Management Methodology for client.
- Demonstrated ability to learn, communicate, follow, and direct others through the Portfolio Stage and Gate process.
- This includes the ability to produce qualified business cases and project plans from start to finish.
- Establishes partnerships with business leadership, project sponsors and owners, and project participants.
- Provides consulting support and advises leadership on overall planning, prioritization, execution and delivery of projects within the portfolio by understanding business priorities and advising on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and organizational priorities.
- Engages on projects as an advisor and guide on a regular basis.
- Serves as a member of the Senior Leadership team.
- Facilitates the annual and multi-year planning process.
- Provides project information and consulting to other senior leadership team members to assist with their resource deployment and utilization, business impact, and overall planning knowledge.
- Supports each senior leader to ensure high standards of delivery for their committed projects in the portfolio of work.
- Supports but also holds each senior leader accountable for their commitments in the delivery of the committed portfolio and its projects.
Job Requirements
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree.
- 7 years of experience in Executives to define and deliver value to the organization.
- 7 years of experience in driving workshops, focus groups, and work sessions.
- 7 years of experience in managing highly complex projects and programs across multiple industries.
What Sets You Apart:
- Advanced Degree in an appropriate discipline.
- Significant successful leadership experience, including leading projects, programs, people, and possibly departments.
- A demonstrated ability to work effectively with business executives, leaders, with all levels of professionals, and with project managers and teams.
- Proven exceptional ability to prepare executive-level material and present at the executive level.
- Exceptional skills at producing qualified business cases
- Strong Financial acumen and experience in developing financial models.
- Demonstrated strong business acumen.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Organizational leadership and change skills.
- Ability to clarify ambiguous information or instructions into actionable steps.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
- Professional Certification, such as PMI, BRMI.
- Portfolio Management Experience.
- Demonstrated organizational design, data analysis, business planning, negotiation, problem-solving, critical thinking skills.
- Strategic vendor management.
- Experience in Utility industry.
- Consulting experience or multidisciplinary experience.
- Azure Cloud
- Cloud Optimization and Application Migration Knowledge
- PMP Certification
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.