Location: 333 Wabash IL (Onsite 3 days/week + Once per month, weekend days)
Project Overview:
We are looking for a Project Manager who will be assigned to one or more of large book of cybersecurity projects that require project management best-practices and rigor to execute and successfully deliver on time and on budget.
Contractor's Role:
* Drive hard-working global teams consisting of employees and onshore/offshore consultants from multiple vendors.
* Manage projects with teams that consist of technology engineers, solution architects, business analysts, scrum masters, and application owners.
* Partner with key business and technology stakeholders in the delivery of critical technology initiatives to meet our strategic goals.
* Responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of Infosec projects.
* Proactively identifies and mitigates risks that impact Infosec projects.
* Change agent for project management best-practices.
Qualifications (must haves):
* 10+ years of overall experience with at least 5+ years of demonstrated track record of leading and managing high visibility business and technology projects.
* Demonstrated experience of working in matrixed organization to drive delivery and change.
* Proficiency in Project Planning tools such as ADO Boards/Kanban, PowerPoint, and Excel. Strong familiarity with PowerBI, MS Forms, and Power Automate.
* Bachelor's Degree required, PMP or Agile certification is a plus.
Knowledge and Skills:
* Experience in Cybersecurity, Regulatory, or Audit-related projects with requisite understanding of terminology, expectations, and sensitivity of information
* Effective communicator - able to articulate ideas and information verbally and in writing; uses proper grammar and spelling in all written deliverables
* Proactive - takes initiative at suggesting process improvements and anticipates the needs of the Program and Project Managers they support
* Organized - able to handle multiple simultaneous work deliverables and prioritize them accordingly
* Analytical - able to assemble data and analyze patterns, trends and draw conclusions and recommendations; rely on data to guide decisions; have ability to perform data analysis on one's own to guide team forward
* Detail oriented - ensures accuracy with all deliverables
* Thorough - able to follow and establish processes, and identify critical steps and actions
* Intellectually Curious - ask questions to seek deeper understanding of the subject matter; do independent research to learn more about topics related to the work;
* Deep project management expertise with ability to structure complex cross-functional initiatives to enable clarity, completeness, and speed of execution.
* Dynamic relationship building and partnership skills; a strong collaborator with experience leading initiatives across multiple groups and stakeholders.
* Empower the team to make decisions. Emphasis on team collaboration and sharing of ideas.
* Leads cross-functional teams to drive disciplined execution of strategic projects from initiation to completion.
* Engages with leaders at different levels of the organization to define project objectives, build project plans with clear milestones, communicate progress, and drive consensus.
* Simplify complex issues and identify creative solutions to drive to rapid issue resolution.
* Anticipate project risks and escalate in a timely manner to drive decisions and/or course correction.
* Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
* Communicate project roadmap in terms meaningful to both business and technology organizations to influence, educate and support the implementation of key business, digital and automation capabilities.