Senior Project Manager, PMO
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What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Magna is more than one of the world’s largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global, entrepreneurial-mindedteam. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.
Job Responsibilities:
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the coordination, implementation and execution of IT projects in Magna IT. For Magna this role requires a strong analytical skillset to be able to work on business requirements together with our cross-functional business ensuring consistency with the Magna IT strategy, commitments and goals.
Major Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of complex IT projects and strategic initiatives across multiple business functions
- Ensure alignment with IT and business strategy, value delivery, and benefits realization
- Manage scope, budget, schedules, risks, dependencies, and quality in accordance with PMO standards
- Support IT portfolio planning, prioritization, and transparency
- Lead steering committee meetings and provide executive-level status reporting
- Drive stakeholder engagement, change management, and adoption of delivered solutions
- Apply waterfall, agile, or hybrid delivery models as appropriate
- Mentor and coach project managers; act as escalation point for complex issues
- Contribute to continuous improvement of PMO processes, tools, and governance
Qualifications and Education
- University degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent
- Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA) required or strongly preferred
- Agile certifications (Scrum Master, SAFe) are an advantage
Professional Experience
- 7-10 years of experience managing complex IT projects
- Proven engagement with senior business and IT stakeholders
- Experience across IT domains such as cloud, data platforms, applications, infrastructure, or integration
- Strong background in business requirements analysis and organizational change management
- Project experience based on technologies like MS SQL based web applications, MS Azure, MS PowerBI is an asset.
- Proven experience with business and requirements analysis.
Skills and Competencies
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent planning, analytical, and decision-making capabilities
- Ability to work under pressure in complex, international environments
- Experience with project and portfolio management tools (MS Project, Project Online, Jira, Azure DevOps)
- Fluent English required
- Basic Understanding of IT Infrastructure, network, databases, web applications, data integration.
- Negotiation skills and political acuity to ensure that conflicts project and stakeholder requirements are managed to ensure a successful outcome.
- Interpersonal and oral/written communication skills to make presentations to senior management and other senior stakeholders.
Work Environment
For dedicated and motivated employees, we offer an interesting and diversified job within a dynamic team together with the individual and functional development in a professional environment of a global acting business. Fair treatment and a sense of responsibility towards employees are the principle of the Magna culture. We strive to offer an inspiring and motivating work environment.
Regular overnight travel 10-25% of the time.
Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
AI-Assisted Screening Disclosure
As part of our commitment to a fair, consistent, and efficient recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system. These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team. Importantly, no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.
Under conditions defined by applicable law, you may have the right to request an explanation of how AI is used to support decision-making.
If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact our Talent Attraction team.