Project Manager, Team Lead

Eversource Energy

. Provides leadership and oversees a team of Business Project Managers which includes coaching, development, training, project support, and guidance on strategy and analysis.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeWestwood • Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $134,480 - $149,420 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provides leadership and oversees a team of Business Project Managers which includes coaching, development, training, project support, and guidance on strategy and analysis.
Leads the development, design, and continuous optimization of business and operational processes, including evaluating current state performance, identifying improvement opportunities, and implementing scalable solutions to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and overall project delivery.
Manages both non-technology and technology (agile and waterfall) implementation projects in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
Responsible for all aspects of capital and expense projects, including: researching and benchmarking all options; recommending solutions; defining the project scope; developing project requirements and estimating project costs; identifying project benefits, risks, contingencies, dependencies, and metrics for success; preparing project authorization and justification documents; establishing project teams; assigning roles and responsibilities; overseeing project progress; providing status updates, project reports, and related communication; and ensuring successful project completion/implementation (on scope, on budget, on schedule, and achieving benefits as planned).
Responsible for leading cross-functional project teams, assigning tasks and responsibilities, and determining actions required to prevent or recover from project-business objective mismatch, schedule challenges, dependency conflicts, execution challenges, resource constraints, scope creep, skill deficiencies, communication failures, and project risks.
Manages the team’s creation and review of the project charter; creation of a comprehensive project plan; and development of a project schedule and communications plan.
Establishes and oversees the change control methodology.
Provides sensitivity/scenario analysis around critical assumptions and quantification of risk parameters.
Works with business units, legal department, and enterprise risk management to probe business issues and to gain an understanding of regulatory, legislative, legal, and utility industry environments for the effective development of financial, strategic, and operational project assumptions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Finance, Accounting, Economics), Engineering, or other closely-related discipline required.
MBA; other advanced degree; formal project management certification or completed coursework; or related professional designations are strongly preferred.
Ten (10) plus years of complex project management experience, including experience with project management software and applications and agile and waterfall project management methodologies, or equivalent experience, required.
Preferred experience with process mapping and customer journey mapping.
Other related experience considered.
Experience working within a regulated environment, particularly within the electric and gas utility industry, preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Eversource offers a competitive total rewards program.
Check out our careers site for an overview of our benefits programs.
This position is eligible for a potential incentive.

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementagile methodologywaterfall methodologyprocess mappingcustomer journey mappingproject scope definitionproject cost estimationrisk managementchange control methodologysensitivity analysis

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingdevelopmenttrainingcommunicationstrategic analysisproblem-solvingteam managementcross-functional collaborationproject reporting

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Business AdministrationMBAformal project management certification