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Our client, a cosmetics company, is seeking a Project Manager to join their team. Role: Project Manager Location: 501 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001, United States (Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 days WFH) Duration: 8+ months (Potential to extend beyond EOY) 2 interviews Key Job Responsibilities + Actively manage the Zone transformation portfolio, overseeing the health, progress, and value realization of more than 50 projects across divisions, mu00e9tiers, and functional domains. + Conduct bi monthly portfolio reviews with project teams to track milestones, risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs, ensuring accuracy and continuity in updates. + Evaluate emerging risks and trends across the portfolio, escalating patterns, structural blockers, and systemic issues to leadership with clear recommendations for action. + Onboard new teams and initiatives into the portfolio, ensuring alignment to transformation governance, standards, and strategic priorities. + Serve as the central steward of project health, maintaining the integrity of status, KPIs, timelines, and interdependencies to ensure enterprise wide visibility and decision readiness. + Lead and develop the project manager community, fostering shared standards, peer learning, capability uplift, and cross project collaboration. + Strategize and plan for future PM needs, including PM bench planning, talent forecasting, and organizational capability mapping. + Serve as the Zone lead for the PM talent tool (Graphite), partnering with HR and functional leaders to support PM role clarity, talent visibility, and mobility pathways. + Promote PM excellence through community cadences, forums, training sessions, and best practice dissemination. + Act as a transformation catalyst by identifying opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and cross divisional collaboration. + Partner on the design and evolution of transformation learning strategies, supporting the development of capability programs that elevate PM and transformation competencies. + Manage core PM frameworks and methodologies, including ownership of PRIME (project lifecycle framework), ensuring consistent adoption and disciplined execution across teams. + Serve as the Center of Excellence for project tools and standards, advising teams on tool usage, governance expectations, and best in class PM practices. + Oversee all PM tool data within Wrike, ensuring accuracy, structure, and completeness across the Zone portfolio. + Continuously optimize data hygiene, reporting, tagging, and hierarchy models, enabling reliable insights, dashboards, and leadership reporting. + Lead tool enhancements and capability rollouts, partnering with IT, global transformation, and portfolio management teams to improve usability and project transparency. + Collaborate closely with business, tech, finance, and global teams, ensuring seamless information flow, alignment on project implications, and visibility of risk. + Support executive storytelling and strategy reviews through portfolio insights, synthesis, and narrative development. + Enable operational continuity and readiness, ensuring teams understand, adopt, and embody transformation standards and expectations. Qualifications + Bachelors degree + 5-8+ years in transformation, PMO, operations, or project management leadership (cross functional or enterprise PMO experience preferred). + Proven track record managing large, complex portfolios with multiple stakeholders and interdependencies. + Strong command of project governance, data accuracy, risk management, and PM tooling. + Skilled at building trusting cross functional relationships and engaging teams at all levels. + Ability to anticipate issues, diagnose systemic trends, and drive clarity in complexity. + Exceptional communication, synthesis, and facilitation skills. About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells _ManpowerGroupu00ae (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands u2013_ _Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells_ _u2013_ creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2022 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 13th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.