Job Title: Project Manager Sr

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD) 

Job Summary/Purpose

• The Senior Project Manager supports the execution of key initiatives, programs, and priorities across the operations organization.
• This role ensures projects are planned, coordinated, and delivered effectively by connecting teams, tracking progress, and maintaining clear communication between leaders and stakeholders.
• The Senior Project Manager works closely with leadership to align deliverables, prepare materials for meetings and events (both virtual and in-person), and monitor timelines, budgets, and risks.
• This position requires strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills to manage multiple efforts simultaneously.
• The role is highly collaborative and focused on ensuring smooth execution of projects that advance departmental and enterprise objectives.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

1. Strategic Partnership and Execution

• Serves as a trusted advisor and thought partner to senior leadership, providing insight, guidance, and support on strategic priorities.
• Coordinates the execution of enterprise-wide initiatives and ensures alignment with organizational goals and priorities. Develops clear, concise communications for leadership updates and executive presentations.

2. Operational Leadership

• Drives day-to-day execution of executive priorities, ensuring progress on high-impact projects and initiatives.
• Works across departments to remove barriers, mediate issues, and align stakeholders toward shared objectives.

3. Project Oversight and Accountability

• Leads complex, cross-functional projects from planning through implementation.
• Defines success metrics, monitors performance, and ensures accountability for results that advance the organization’s strategic vision and operational targets.

4. Cross-Functional Alignment

• Builds strong relationships across business units to enhance collaboration, ensure effective information flow, and streamline execution.
• Identifies and addresses gaps in coordination, creating efficiencies that enable teams to deliver on strategic outcomes.

5. Performance Monitoring and Risk Management

• Tracks progress of major initiatives, analyzing performance data and identifying risks or barriers to success.
• Recommends solutions and mitigation strategies to maintain project momentum and organizational health.

6. Executive Communications and Presentations

• Develops and delivers executive-level presentations and communication materials to support board, leadership, and company-wide discussions.
• Ensures messaging reflects strategic alignment and drives clarity across the enterprise.

Minimum Requirements                                                                       

Minimum education required of the position

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, or other related fields of study from an accredited four-year institution or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced degree preferred

Minimum experience required of the position

• Experience managing large-scale projects and initiatives while integrating a wide variety of stakeholder interests into actionable plans and policies.
• 3-5 years of Operations management, project management or financial management experience.
• Experience utilizing exemplary presentation and communication skills to affect change across groups of diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in developing strategic agendas and executing large scale meetings, forums and conferences across multiple levels of leadership.
• Experience in union environment and involvement in labor-management strategies is a plus.

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

• Broad knowledge of the electric power industry with a focus on distribution operations, generation, and transmission, project management, budget and cost management disciplines, safety, quality, compliance and regulation.  
• Strong financial acumen and managing budget.
• Maintains a work environment to act with a focus on the future, is adaptable, overcomes resistance to change and executes with a sense of urgency to be successful today and within the anticipated future business climate.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and analytical skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Detail oriented and possess excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to develop relationships with business leaders. Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders with skill and diplomacy.
• Determines strategic business direction to best meet clients evolving needs. Ensures continued service excellence by evaluating and analyzing departmental decisions that impact ability to meet client needs.

ANSI Required:             N

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position

None

This position is designated as a Safety Sensitive position and is subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing.

Primary Location: Mississippi-Jackson Mississippi : Jackson || Louisiana : New Orleans 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 121826
Travel Percentage:25% to 50%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 
The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

 Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment.  Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

EEI Testing:

One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test.  The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and number of questions.  Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, Logon ID:  entergy, password:  practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.

In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.

This position is designated as a Safety Sensitive position and is subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing.