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Principal Project Manager, IT - Project, Program & Portfolio Mgmt

Anywhere
full-time
Posted 10/14/2025
Verified Source
Key Skills:
Project Management
Program Management
Risk Management
Change Management
Stakeholder Management
Agile Best Practices
Technical Communication
Business Acumen

Compensation

Salary Range

$120K - 160K a year

Responsibilities

Lead and manage large, complex IT projects and programs across business units, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to specification while driving process improvements and change management.

Requirements

Master's degree, 10+ years relevant work experience, PMP certification preferred, strong leadership, communication, and business acumen skills, and ability to manage complex IT projects autonomously in a remote environment.

Full Description

We are Builders FirstSource, America’s largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You’ll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels. PURPOSE Serves as a Principal IT Project Manager for the nation’s largest lumber and buildering material provider for residential construction. Work in an autonomous, remote environment on IT projects in support of myriad internal clients across business and IT functions. Join a team of project managers that deliver value and help BFS outperform today, transform tomorrow, and make home ownership a reality for all Americans. Follows PMO processes and policies, directs project team, and works with other departmental leaders and resources to deliver work. Manages and oversees all aspects of the development and implementation of large-sized and above initiatives. Takes projects from original concept through final implementation by defining project scope and objectives, and developing detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports. Leads teams to deliver project(s) and programs that span across one or more business units with authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis. Manages issues, risks, and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. Contributes to process improvement initiatives as it relates to improving project delivery. Verifies that the project produces the required deliverables of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost and to achieve the potential benefits defined in the business case ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Scope of role: • Program: Typically leads large, highly complex programs consisting of several projects. • Project: May lead large highly complex, multi-platform projects. • Demonstrates expertise in program and project management by setting the pace and tone for what good looks like, along with mentoring junior project managers. The primary focus of each role can be different depending on the role but may include some combination of each of the responsibilities outlined below. Team members should work with leadership to define the "composition" of their specific role to drive impact and generate outcomes. Career progression does not require demonstration of all accountabilities below. Delivery and Execution: • Leads teams to deliver scope of work that typically spans across one or more business units • Redefines and informs plans in response to changing business/ market information Planning and Alignment: • Develops roadmaps and gains alignment on objectives • Provides insights on anticipated challenges and potential for conflict • Provides advice for objective alignment across multiple teams and other stakeholders Status Updates and Progress: • Aligns implementation efforts across multiple ongoing initiatives to achieve organization-wide goals • Guides others on risk management decisions, actions and consequences • Ensures work/scope delivery is in conformance with company methodologies and standards Collaboration: • Serves as a liaison between internal clients and other stakeholders to ensure delivery of work on time, within budget, and to specification • Has regular contact among peers within the firm and occasionally externally, (as required) • Provides advice on the technological implications of business trends, issues, operating environment changes and company strategy Change Management: • Provides inputs on change approach, strategy and plans across functions • Provides guidance to teams on adoption/ rollout plans SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES This job has no supervisory responsibilities. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. • Master's degree from an accredited college/university. • 10+ years relevant work experience. • Or an equivalent combination of education and experience. • Project Management Professional” (PMP) certificate preferred COMPETENCIES • Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively. • Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate. • Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives. • Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations. • Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business. • Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments of internal and external customers and needs of the market. • Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working. BFS COMPETENCIES • Business and Financial Acumen • Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis • Teaches business and financial acumen to others. • Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money. • Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another. • Understands customer sales and engagement. • Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise. • Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills. • Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle. • Results Driven • Holds self and others accountable. • Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver. • Manages competing priorities effectively. • Demonstrates appropriate urgency. • Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values. • Embraces and follows best practices. • Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude. • Strategic Thinking and Decision Making • Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes. • Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner. • Balances short-and-long term priorities • Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking. • Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately. • Servant Leadership • Demonstrates humility by putting others first. • Builds trust-based relationships. • Leads by example with kindness and respect. • Collaborates well across all areas of the business. • Advocates for others • Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating. • Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same. • Emotional Intelligence • Demonstrates situational awareness – knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations. • Demonstrates self-awareness – understands strengths and weaknesses. • Demonstrates empathy – puts themselves in other’s shoes. • Assumes positive intent. • Develops and Leads Others • Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations. • Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations. • Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment. • Empowers, motivates, and inspires others. • Coaches and mentor others for their development. • Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes. • Growth Mindset • Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes. • Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure. • Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit. • Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity. • Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth. • Sees possibilities over problems – actively seeks solutions. • Innovation • Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things. • Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business. • Anticipates, embraces, and leads change. • Develops and executes breakthrough strategies. • Integrity • Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances? • Communicates with honesty. • Consistently treats others fairly and equitably. • Demonstrates reliability and does what they say they will do. • Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect. WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITY The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. • Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations. • Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds. • Occasional travel Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You’ll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore – all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS. In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company’s active bonus policy for the respective year. At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple — provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives. To view all our benefit offerings click here www.bldrbenefits.com. Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Builders FirstSource, please call (214) 765-3990 or email: ADA.Accommodation@bldr.com. Please do not send resumes to this email address - it is intended only to be used to request an accommodation in submitting an application for a job opening.

This job posting was last updated on 10/17/2025

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