Senior Project Manager Resume Example
A senior project manager resume that names the ERP rollout delivered on schedule and the on-time delivery record built across enterprise programs.
Iris Vandenberg
Senior Project Manager · Enterprise IT Programs
Raleigh, NC · (919) 555-0134 · i.vandenberg@email.com · linkedin.com/in/irisvandenberg
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute
Profile
Senior project manager with 13 years delivering enterprise IT programs for teams of up to 20 people and $5M budgets. Delivered an ERP rollout across 6 sites on schedule and holds a 93% on-time record.
Project Experience
Senior Project Manager
2019 – Present
Ardent Holdings, Raleigh, NC
- Manage a $5M portfolio of enterprise IT programs with up to 20 cross-functional team members.
- Delivered an ERP rollout across 6 sites on schedule, coordinating 4 vendor implementation teams.
- Hold a 93% on-time delivery rate across 30 projects using a shared risk register and RAID log.
- Own change control and executive status reporting, presenting to the steering committee monthly.
- Coach 3 project managers, 2 of whom were promoted to senior project manager.
Project Manager
2014 – 2019
Calder Group, Raleigh, NC
- Led 18 technology and process-improvement projects with budgets up to $1.2M each.
- Ran hybrid agile and waterfall delivery for teams of up to 12 across 3 departments.
- Negotiated vendor contracts and SLAs that cut delivery delays by 20% program-wide.
- Facilitated milestone reviews with clients and internal sponsors every 2 weeks.
Project Coordinator
2012 – 2014
Calder Group, Raleigh, NC
- Tracked deliverables, risks and budgets for 8 concurrent internal projects.
- Maintained the resource plan for a 15-person delivery team across 2 offices.
Core Skills
Scope managementRisk registersBudget ownershipVendor managementStakeholder managementChange controlStatus reporting
Tools
MS Project
Jira
Smartsheet
Confluence
Education
MBA
2014
North Carolina State University
B.S. in Business Administration
2011
North Carolina State University
The person, employers and dates are invented; the duties, tools and credentials are the ones this job really asks for.
20terms employers filter on
- Strategy
- Budget ownership
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Forecasting
- Vendor negotiation
- Scope Management
- Hiring
- Performance management
- Steering Committee
- ERP Implementation
- Budget
- Change Control
- Process Improvement
- KPI
- Change Management
- Cross-Functional
- Roadmap
- Risk
- Governance
What holds up
- 01 / 05Scope in the first line.Team size, budget, region — the level check happens immediately.
- 02 / 05Outcomes over duties.What changed under you, with numbers and periods.
- 03 / 05People built.Hires, promotions, retention — the durable record.
- 04 / 05Two pages acceptable.Expected, even; padding is not.
- 05 / 05Sponsor and stakeholder work named.The altitude of your communication matters.
What does not
- 01 / 05Buzzword leadership."Visionary change agent" reads as inverse seniority.
- 02 / 05Taking whole-company results.Your span, honestly bounded, reads stronger.
- 03 / 05Detailed early-career history.Compress to a line each after fifteen years.
- 04 / 05Confidential figures.Percentages carry the point.
- 05 / 05Hiding a short tenure.The story on paper beats the one imagined.
FAQ
Questions about this senior project manager resume example
Short answers to what people ask before they send this resume.
Use this exampleIs two pages acceptable?
Yes, and at this level often expected. What is not acceptable is a second page of duties rather than outcomes.
How far back should the history go?
Roughly fifteen years in detail; older roles compress to a line each. The early history establishes trajectory, not capability.
Should I include a summary?
Yes. At this level a reader wants scope — team size, budget, region — in the first three lines, before deciding whether to keep reading.