Expert, Data Project Manager

🔍 Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Project Manager to lead large-scale, high-impact, and strategically critical data & analytics projects across global environments.

These initiatives are characterized by:

• High organizational visibility
• Complex stakeholder landscapes
• Significant financial exposure
• Multi-technology and multi-region execution
• Strong executive sponsorship

This role requires an exceptional communicator and structured leader who thrives in complex environments, navigates political dynamics with maturity, and ensures disciplined delivery of critical data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership of High-Complexity Data Projects

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large, complex data and analytics projects with enterprise-wide impact.
• Manage projects involving multiple business units, technical domains, vendors, and offshore teams.
• Oversee high interdependencies across systems, platforms (cloud/on-prem), and transformation streams.
• Ensure alignment between strategic objectives and measurable business value realization.
• Lead and coordinate structured requirements gathering processes, working closely with business stakeholders, data teams, and technical architects to ensure clarity, feasibility, and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Translate complex business demands into structured project scopes, ensuring traceability from business need to delivery.

Executive Communication & Stakeholder Influence (Core Focus)

• Act as the key point of accountability for executive sponsors and senior stakeholders.
• Communicate complex data topics in a clear, structured, and business-oriented manner.
• Navigate politically sensitive environments, managing competing priorities and influencing decision-making.
• Facilitate steering committees and high-level governance forums.
• Build trusted partnerships across business, IT, data teams, and external providers.
• Drive strong stakeholder engagement across business and IT functions to support effective demand management and prioritization processes.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate incoming demands, assess impact, feasibility, and strategic alignment.
• Manage expectations, resolve conflicts, and align stakeholders in environments with competing priorities and limited capacity.

Governance, Methodology & Delivery Frameworks

• Apply and adapt structured methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid) to complex data project environments.
• Establish robust governance practices including RAID management, dependency tracking, and change control.
• Drive disciplined scope management in high-pressure and evolving contexts.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise PMO standards and compliance requirements.

Financial & Risk Management

• Own and manage significant project budgets with strong financial rigor.
• Develop detailed forecasts and proactively manage cost, risk exposure, and value realization.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks across technical, operational, and organizational dimensions.

Global & Cross-Cultural Leadership

• Lead distributed and offshore teams across regions and time zones.
• Adapt communication and leadership style to multicultural and diverse environments.
• Drive collaboration and performance in complex matrix organizations.

What qualifications will make you successful for this role?

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Data, or related field.
• 8-12+ years of experience managing large, complex projects, with strong exposure to data & analytics initiatives.
• Proven ability to deliver in highly matrixed and politically complex organizations.
• Demonstrated experience managing high-budget, high-risk, and high-visibility initiatives.
• Strong financial management expertise and accountability.
• Advanced knowledge of project methodologies and governance frameworks (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, SAFe or equivalent).
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Proven experience leading complex requirements definition phases and working closely with business stakeholders to structure and prioritize demand pipelines.
• Strong understanding of demand management processes within enterprise or PMO environments.

Preferred Experience

• Delivery of enterprise data platforms, analytics ecosystems, data governance frameworks, or digital transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of data lifecycle management, data quality, governance, and analytics from a PM leadership perspective.
• Experience in hybrid technology environments (cloud, on-prem, multi-vendor).
• Exposure to global enterprise PMO environments.
• Experience leading offshore and multicultural teams.

Key Competencies

• Executive and strategic communication
• Political awareness and stakeholder diplomacy
• High resilience in high-pressure environments
• Structured, methodology-driven leadership
• Strong financial acumen
• Cultural intelligence and global mindset
• Ability to simplify complexity and drive clarity

What will you get?

We adapt to you:

With our flexible schedule, you'll have the freedom to adjust your work hours to accommodate your personal needs and responsibilities.

We know how great it is to work from home. With our hybrid work plan, you can enjoy working from the comfort of your home.

Need more time to relax and disconnect? With our Holy Pack, you can purchase additional vacation days to recharge when you need it most.

Celebrate holidays your way! With Floating Holidays, you can exchange holidays for other days that better suit your plans and personal preferences.

Need additional time to explore new experiences or focus on personal projects? With the Sabbatical Pack, you can request up to 2 months of extra leave (unpaid).

We value the importance of family and want to support you in all aspects of your life. Our Global Family Leave Policy provides flexible paid conditions for when you need it most, whether you're about to be a parent, need time to overcome a loss, or to care for a loved one.

We take care of you:

With access to the health and wellness platform Wellwo, you and up to 5 people of your choice can enjoy access to wellness content, nutrition counseling, fitness classes, and more!

From dance classes to booking a hotel spa, we offer an agreement with Wellhub so you can access a network of thousands of gyms and sports centers to keep your body active in the way you like best.

Your well-being is our priority. You will have medical service at your workplace for close attention to any medical needs.

We empower you:

With Career Hub, our AI-driven professional development platform, you can connect with job opportunities, projects, and mentors at Schneider Electric globally.

We offer you the opportunity to be a shareholder of Schneider Electric and share in our achievements with our stock ownership program.

We celebrate everyone's talent and success with our recognition program, through which you can give and receive points for your achievements and redeem them for gift cards at your favorite stores.

You will have life insurance for your protection.

We offer you a Flexible Remuneration Plan in which you can choose from a variety of options, such as health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare vouchers, transportation vouchers, training, and more.

With Club Schneider, you will enjoy special discounts at your favorite stores, restaurants, travel agencies, and other external services.

Participate in company-subsidized volunteer programs to contribute to our community and have a positive impact on your environment.

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Client-provided location(s): Barcelona, Spain

Job ID: Schneider_Electric-https://careers.se.com/jobs/109619?lang=en-us

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-28T18:50:15