Senior Project Manager
Location: Madison, WI (Hybrid)
Work Schedule: Hybrid - Must be onsite at least once per quarter. Candidates must be Wisconsin residents. No relocation assistance is available.
Experience: 10+ Years Preferred
Certification: PMP or equivalent Project Management certification highly preferred
About the Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead high-impact enterprise initiatives for a large public-sector organization in Wisconsin. This is a business-focused project management role, not a technical project management position. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience leading large-scale initiatives, facilitating executive-level discussions, driving organizational change, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
In this role, you will partner closely with executive leadership, business stakeholders, IT leadership, vendors, and project teams to manage complex projects from initiation through closeout while ensuring successful organizational adoption and operational transition.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage enterprise-wide projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation to project closeout.
- Partner with executive leadership to develop departmental strategies and define strategic initiatives.
- Facilitate business-focused discussions and decision-making sessions with senior stakeholders.
- Assemble, lead, and manage cross-functional project teams.
- Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, resources, and dependencies.
- Track project milestones and key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure successful outcomes.
- Apply predictive, adaptive, and hybrid project management methodologies based on project needs.
- Manage both technical and organizational change management workstreams.
- Coordinate efforts across business units, vendors, and leadership teams.
- Develop project documentation, including charters, plans, status reports, governance materials, and executive communications.
- Support business process improvements and strategic initiatives across the organization.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible project management experience.
- Demonstrated success managing multiple concurrent projects with business, vendor, technology, and organizational change management workstreams.
- Experience delivering projects using predictive, adaptive (Agile), and hybrid project management methodologies.
- Strong knowledge of stage-gate governance and project controls.
- Proven ability to achieve project success against defined KPIs and business objectives.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Experience building consensus and leading executive-level discussions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP Certification (highly preferred).
- Program Management experience.
- Organizational Change Management experience.
- Strategy Development and Strategic Initiative Planning.
- Executive-Level Meeting Facilitation.
- Business Process Reengineering.
- Continuous Process Improvement experience.
- Experience using Critical Path Method (CPM).
- Microsoft Project experience.
- Advanced analytics experience.