Project Manager

• Establish and maintain project governance, PMO processes, standards, templates, and operating cadence across all program workstreams.
  
• Manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical-path activities; proactively identify and communicate schedule risks.
  
• Prepare weekly and monthly program status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and steering committee materials covering progress, risks, issues, decisions, and key metrics.
  
• Own and maintain Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) logs; facilitate timely resolution and escalation of critical items.
  
• Coordinate activities across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams to ensure alignment and timely execution of program deliverables.
  
• Manage project governance meetings, including preparing agendas, capturing decisions and action items, and driving follow-ups to closure.
  
• Monitor deliverables and key milestones against the approved plan, identify delivery gaps, and collaborate with Project Managers and workstream leads on corrective actions.
  
• Maintain project documentation, decision logs, action trackers, governance artifacts, and project repositories to ensure transparency and auditability
  

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Project Manager or in a PMO/governance role, preferably within large, multi-workstream transformation programs.
  
• Strong expertise in project governance, integrated planning and tracking, and critical-path management.
  
• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive-level status reports, dashboards, and steering committee materials.
  
• Hands-on experience with RAID log management, risk identification, and issue escalation and resolution.
  
• Solid cross-functional coordination skills, with the ability to align business, technology, QA, and consulting teams.
  
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools, including Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow ticketing systems.
  
• Excellent documentation, organization, and knowledge management skills, with attention to auditability and transparency.
  
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive meetings, decisions, and action items to closure.
  
• Ability to work effectively in a part-time (approximately 20 hours per week) remote capacity across Eastern and Central time zones.
  
• Willingness to travel occasionally to Chicago for quarterly governance sessions or key project milestones such as UAT.
  
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.