Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a British-owned education publishing and assessment services company that serves schools, corporations, and students directly. The company owns several educational media brands, including Addison Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, Longman, Scott Foresman, and others.
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Hoboken, NJ, 07030
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Remote
Shift Timings: Monday To Friday From 08:00 AM To 05:00 PM
Job Description:
- Project Manager supporting the Enterprise Content & Training (ECT) organization.
- Responsible for conducting project and contract audits, performing forensic analysis of existing projects, and identifying discrepancies in systems and processes.
- Review contract status using internal systems, including SharePoint and Oracle-based contract tracking tools (PDH).
- Investigate active, inactive, and cancelled contracts and coordinate appropriate follow-up actions, including cancellation notifications when necessary.
- Develop, improve, and maintain project tracking processes and reporting structures.
- Drive organization, documentation, and process consistency across multiple ongoing initiatives.
- Partner cross-functionally with teams including royalties, operations, content, and other business stakeholders.
- Support project visibility, status tracking, and process governance across the organization.
- Supporting the Enterprise Content & Training (ECT) division.
- ECT produces and manages professional technical learning content, including books, video courses, live training, certification programs, cybersecurity training, networking content, and AI learning solutions.
- Well-known content brands include Cisco Press, Adobe Press, and Prentice Hall.
- Team is currently understaffed, need additional bandwidth (recent employee departure, mat leave, and sabbatical)
- Existing projects and tracking processes require clean-up and greater operational rigor.
- Need someone who can quickly assess the current state of projects and contracts, identify issues, ask critical questions, and establish stronger tracking and accountability mechanisms.
- Initial engagement is 3 months, with strong potential for extension based on business needs and workload.
Work Environment:
- Review project and contract data across SharePoint and internal systems.
- Conduct forensic analysis of project statuses, contract activity, and process gaps.
- Create and maintain project trackers, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms.
- Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather information and resolve discrepancies, document findings and recommend corrective actions.
- Support operational processes that improve organization and project execution.
- Core team consists of approximately 4 team members, additional support resources located in India.
- Highly collaborative, cross-functional environment.
Must Haves:
- Team values initiative, transparency, organization, and strong communication.
- Strong experience creating and maintaining project tracking processes.
- Advanced organizational and prioritization skills.
- Experience working with SharePoint.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
- Experience with Smartsheet or similar project tracking tools.
- Ability to perform detailed analysis and identify process, data, or project discrepancies.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable working independently and navigating ambiguity.
- Opportunity to make an immediate and visible impact on a team needing operational structure and support.
- Significant autonomy and ownership over process creation and project tracking improvements.
- Exposure to technical publishing, professional learning, AI, cybersecurity, and certification content businesses.
- Opportunity to work across multiple functions and gain broad business exposure.
Candidate Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years as a Project Manager/project management experience, ideally within Publishing, or Tech (more years of experience preferred)
- PMP Certification not required, but a plus.
- Degree not required, but a plus (years of experience more important)
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, this is the most key.
- Transparent communicator who proactively raises questions and risks.
- Demonstrated ability to bring structure to unclear or disorganized environments.
- Proven success managing multiple priorities simultaneously
- Performance: highly organized, transparent. If they don't know something, tell the manager.
- If they are collaborative, will work with the team and get to know their systems and can work with them to get do all that. Organization is so key.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Hoboken, NJ (Remote) |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $63.32 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Adobe Product Familyunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Auditingunmatched
- Cisco Network Systemsunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Contract Managementunmatched
- Contract Reviewunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Data Processingunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Educational Evaluationunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Forensic Accountingunmatched
- Forensic Scienceunmatched
- Government Organizationsunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Internet Securityunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Microsoft SharePointunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Operations Processesunmatched
- Oracleunmatched
- Organizational Development/Managementunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Project Evaluationunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Management Professional (PMP)unmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Royaltiesunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Publicationsunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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