Project Manager

Title: Project Manager
Duration: 12 months
Location: Remote

Description:

Key Responsibilities
Agile Delivery & Project Leadership

• Lead Agile ceremonies (planning, reviews, retrospectives, stand-ups) and ensure teams operate with strong discipline, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, sprint schedules, work breakdown structures, and task assignments.
• Track progress against key milestones, escalating timeline, resource, or quality concerns to the Portfolio Manager as needed.
• Implement and refine project management processes and frameworks that improve consistency, predictability, and speed of delivery.

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

• Develop and execute change management plans to drive engagement, adoption, and readiness across impacted teams.
• Assess stakeholder needs, manage communication plans, and anticipate resistance points before they escalate.
• Support leaders in navigating organizational impacts and aligning the workforce to new digital capabilities.

Digital Tool Enabled Practices

• Leverage digital tools to automate reporting, enhance communication, streamline documentation, and accelerate decision-making.
• Identify opportunities where digital can improve delivery efficiency, team productivity, or problem-solving velocity.
• Guide teams on responsible and effective digital adoption within project workflows.

Team Collaboration & Communication

• Serve as the connective tissue across technical, business, and leadership teams-ensuring consistent, clear communication.
• Manage recurring meeting cadences, agendas, facilitation, notes, and follow-up actions.
• Provide timely updates, dashboards, and insights to the Portfolio Manager, Product Owner(s), and leadership.

Strategic Partnership

• Collaborate with senior business partners to prioritize initiatives that propel enterprise-level digital and transformation goals.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities early-and recommend solutions that keep programs advancing.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and experimentation across the delivery ecosystem.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Develop and execute continuous improvement processes for Agile teams.
• Communicate program status, risks, and insights to leadership.
• Coordinate and manage meeting series, including facilitation and minutes.
• Build and maintain project plans, timelines, backlog items, and cross-team tasks.
• Use digital tools to streamline reporting, documentation, communication, and data synthesis.
• Partner with Product Owners on prioritization, resource planning, and stakeholder engagement.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree or Masters degree and 2 years of experience or Bachelors degree and 4 years of experience or Associates degree and 8 years of experience or High school diploma / GED and 10 years of experience

Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:

• Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt certification REQUIRED
• Person needs to have a strong presence and carry themselves well through interviews. This EW will be presenting to high level of leadership on a regular cadence and need to speak efficiently and clearly.
• Candidate must have a strong concept of change management and be able to talk through that in interview
• Need high level PM experience (ideally 6-10 years)

Possible Extension:

• Yes

Red Flags:

• Jumpy resumes with many 1 year engagements
• Scrum only type PM experience
• High turnover with roles.

Interview Process:

• 3 video conference interviews