Project Manager, Industry Specialty Services

Job Summary

The Project Manager manages technology implementations, business process transformations, ERP workstreams, post-transaction integration activities, and other strategic projects for government contractor and commercial clients. This position coordinates project activities across client stakeholders, contractors, vendors, and internal teams while monitoring scope, schedules, budgets, risks, deliverables, and quality standards. The Project Manager applies project management practices and government contracting knowledge to support project governance, resolve delivery issues, maintain project documentation, and achieve client objectives. This position also supports proposal activities, client communications, project reporting, and consistent project management practices within Industry Specialty Services.

Job Duties

• Manages technology implementations, ERP workstreams, business process transformations, post-transaction integration activities, and strategic projects from planning through closeout
• Develops project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, communication plans, and work breakdown structures
• Coordinates project activities across client stakeholders, government agencies, contractors, subcontractors, vendors, technical teams, and business process owners
• Incorporates government contracting requirements into project planning, reporting, documentation, compliance, and change management activities
• Establishes project meeting schedules, reporting routines, escalation procedures, and decision-tracking processes
• Defines project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and performance measures
• Coordinates ERP implementation activities across requirements gathering, business process design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, training, deployment, and stabilization
• Maintains risk registers, issue logs, action plans, decision logs, change logs, and lessons-learned records
• Monitors project budgets, labor utilization, subcontractor costs, invoices, forecasts, and financial performance
• Tracks project schedules, deliverables, milestones, resource assignments, quality measures, and client commitments
• Facilitates requirements workshops, design reviews, status meetings, testing sessions, and project retrospectives
• Supports organizational change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption activities
• Reviews project deliverables for accuracy, completeness, quality, contractual compliance, and alignment with approved requirements
• Documents scope changes and prepares impact assessments for schedule, budget, resources, risks, and deliverables
• Prepares client status reports, project dashboards, executive briefings, presentations, and contract deliverable packages
• Supports proposal development, solution design, pricing activities, oral presentations, and project mobilization activities
• Maintains productive relationships with government clients, executive sponsors, project teams, delivery partners, and external vendors
• Applies approved project management methodologies, templates, tools, controls, and quality practices
• Identifies opportunities to improve project delivery, operational efficiency, client satisfaction, and financial performance
• Supports project closeout activities, including final reporting, transition planning, contract deliverables, benefits assessment, and lessons learned

Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Coaches project coordinators, business analysts, and project team members in project management practices and documentation standards

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or Public Administration, required
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or Public Administration, preferred

Experience

• Five (5) or more years of project management experience, required
• Three (3) or more years managing technology implementations, business process transformations, systems projects, or organizational change initiatives, required
• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, scope changes, vendors, or subcontractors, required
• Experience coordinating projects with multiple workstreams, dependencies, stakeholders, and project deliverables, required
• Two (2) or more years supporting ERP implementation activities, including requirements, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, training, deployment, or stabilization, preferred
• Two (2) or more years supporting government contracts, government agencies, public-sector clients, contract deliverables, compliance requirements, or contractor oversight, preferred
• Experience with proposal development, contract transition, task order execution, or project mobilization, preferred
• Experience within a professional services, consulting, systems integration, or government contracting organization, preferred

License(s)/Certification(s)

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, preferred
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification, preferred
• Certified ScrumMaster certification, preferred
• ERP platform certification, preferred

Software

• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, required
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams, required
• Experience with SAP, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Workday, or Infor ERP platforms, preferred
• Experience with project portfolio management, collaboration, scheduling, reporting, or workflow platforms, preferred
• Experience with Power BI or comparable project reporting and dashboard tools, preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of project planning, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, issue management, change control, and quality management
• Knowledge of government contracting principles, contract deliverables, task orders, compliance requirements, and client reporting expectations
• Knowledge of ERP implementation lifecycles, business process redesign, systems integration, data migration, testing, training, and deployment
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple projects, workstreams, clients, and contractual commitments
• Ability to translate business requirements into project plans, schedules, deliverables, and measurable outcomes
• Ability to analyze project data, identify trends, evaluate impacts, and recommend corrective actions
• Ability to facilitate meetings and support decisions among technical teams, business stakeholders, contractors, vendors, and client representatives
• Ability to communicate project information through written reports, presentations, dashboards, and meetings
• Ability to identify and resolve project risks, issues, conflicts, and delivery barriers
• Ability to maintain accurate, organized, and audit-ready project documentation
• Ability to manage confidential client, contract, financial, personnel, and project information
• Ability to coordinate geographically dispersed and multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to travel to client sites, project locations, and business meetings
• Ability to work within established contract, security, ethics, confidentiality, and compliance requirements
• Ability to mentor project coordinators, business analysts, and project team members

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $125,000 - $165,000

Maryland Range: $125,000 - $165,000

NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $125,000 - $165,000

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