Senior Consulting Project Manager-CTJ-Poly with Security Clearance

Overview We are seeking a Sr.

Consulting Project

Manager.

The Consulting Project

Manager for this role will:

Engage with customer stakeholders to develop partnerships, leveraging broad technical expertise. Drive customer satisfaction by engaging with customers stakeholders in a positive manner, reviewing and analyzing customer feedback, and leveraging trusted relationships with key internal resources to act as the voice of the customer. Adhere to project compliance standards and requirements of the contract and accommodates customer compliance standards.

Drive project initiation for projects of medium complexity by delivering a workstream within a larger project/program. Facilitate contracting process for partner resources by briefing partners, coordinating partner candidate interviews, and identifying and acclimating partner resources to the team. Develop detailed project management plan to drive predictable delivery for projects of medium complexity or supports senior colleagues in projects of high complexity.

Provide review of defined metrics, proactively monitors and tracks risks, ensures timely completion and quality of deliverables, and manages stakeholder communications. Drive timely project closure by ensuring completion of project sign off tasks. Apply advanced knowledge across project management principle areas, contributes at local team-wide level to share knowledge and support others, serves as a mentor to junior colleagues to grow identified skill gaps, and participates in cross-border mentoring and peer alignment to share lessons learned on challenging projects.

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Responsibilities Account Delivery Management Contributes to consumption activities, through others (e.g., Customer Success resources), for customers by identifying blockers to consumption goals and enabling customers, through internal teams, to get the full value of their purchases. Holds accountability for project delivery forecast. Drives and maintains obligations to customer across the delivery lifecycle including envisioning, solution development, delivery planning, cloud consumption and usage, delivery management while ensuring adherence to security best practices in partnership with Solution Area SMEs.

Ensures that customer-required or market-required security certifications are active. Leads or participates in steering committee meetings with strategic customers to discuss progress toward delivery success. Supports relationships with key stakeholders in the customer portfolio to ensure service delivery is on track, and issues are being anticipated, identified, and managed.

Communicates current view of delivery to customer stakeholders, as appropriate. Collaborates with Sales to support contract setup, signature, compliance, and execution from deal approvals to invoicing and closure. Manages areas of fiscal responsibility within project portfolio, staying within budget while driving engagement profitability and risk management.

Initiation

Balances needs across projects in challenging situations (e.g., scarce technical resources), with support from senior colleagues as needed, and collaborates with other groups (e.g., resource managers, Global Delivery Center) on integrated planning and organization of onshore/offshore projects. Drives project initiation for projects of medium complexity (e.g., multiple offerings, and/or supports projects of high complexity (e.g., tailored offerings, high visibility, high impact, market making) by delivering a workstream within a larger project/program, by driving commitment of delivery resources, assigning resources, assisting in sourcing and qualifying partner resources, and creating work breakdown structures (WBSs) with delivery team. Drives checklist and process finalization for Secure Future Initiative (SFI) with team and customers Planning Develops detailed project management plan to drive predictable delivery for projects of medium complexity or supports senior colleagues in projects of high complexity, leveraging existing materials and experience to drive scope, resources, and Microsoft project schedule in alignment and collaboration with customer plan.

Ensures use of baselining, resource load balancing, and application of work effort, dependency management, contingency planning, and utilization of