Senior Specialist - Program & Project Management

Job Title Senior Technical Project Manager

Location: Mexico

Work mode Remote

FTE

Summary

Nielsen is hiring a Senior Technical Project Manager to support the Cybersecurity Program Offices growing portfolio of security initiatives This is a senior handson role responsible for scoping and driving execution of complex crossfunctional security initiatives taking direction from ambiguity to an actionable resourced plan The initial assignment is a crossfunctional security infrastructure initiative with additional initiatives added to this persons portfolio over time

Responsibilities

Lead scoping of assigned security initiatives from directional strategy into an executable plan sequencing dependencies resourcing and concrete milestones

For the initial assignment lead scoping of a multiworkstream security infrastructure initiative including defining transition criteria for retiring legacy systems and executing planned decommissioning once those criteria are met

Own ongoing coordination scheduling and crossteam communication across security network engineering enduser computing and cloud operations

Serve as a primary point of contact for external technical partners and vendors supporting initiative delivery managing communications and holding delivery accountable to agreed scope timelines and SLAs

Maintain realtime visibility into initiative health tracking milestones budgetresourcing burn and risk logs and provide executivelevel status updates to the CPO Leader and key stakeholders

Track dependencies risks and open decisions keep documentation current as initiatives evolve

Partner with technical leads who remain focused on technical design and build rather than daytoday coordination and tracking

Working Style

Pragmatic reliable and actionoriented moves initiatives forward rather than just tracking them

Ability to navigate ambiguity and evolving dynamics with a structured approach

Comfortable working in autonomous selfdirected environments with a high degree of ownership

Proactive and independent able to initiate and drive full initiatives without close direction

Strong crossfunctional collaborator who builds working relationships inside and outside the organization

Able to quickly distill a situation and recommend a course of action to keep delivery moving

Qualifications112131

Demonstrated experience scoping an initiative from directional strategy into an executable plan this is not a pure executiontracking role or equivalent experience

35 years of technical project management experience including senior or leadlevel ownership of complex crossfunctional initiatives or equivalent experience

PMP PMIACP CSM or similar certification demonstrating mastery of both Agile and traditional project management methodologies or equivalent experience

Strong technical fluency able to genuinely understand the engineering constructs of the initiatives they lead even without a handson engineering background themselves

Strong crossfunctional collaboration skills able to work across technical and business stakeholders without close oversight

Executiveready communication skills comfortable presenting status and options to senior stakeholders not just peers and translating technical progress into clear valuebased narratives for nontechnical audiences

High level of comfort with project management and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet Google Workspace Jira Confluence and AWS

Pragmatic reliable and actionoriented working style