Project Manager

SGS Consulting; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SGS Consulting seeks an experienced Project Manager to oversee cybersecurity and SSD initiatives. You will coordinate between project management, planning, teams and line management, ensuring schedules and budgets align with milestones.

The role requires PMO experience, strong communication, and proficiency with MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint in a dynamic, matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of project management experience, cybersecurity or DoD exposure.
• Experience creating and maintaining project plans, charters, and communications plans.
• 2-3 years in a Project Management Office (PMO) environment.
• Proficiency in O365, Microsoft Project Plan, Excel, and PowerPoint for reporting.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational and written/verbal communication skills.
• PMP certification; change management and business analysis experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversees operational aspects of ongoing projects and liaises between PM, planning, team and management.
• Reviews project status, budgets, schedules and prepares status reports.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring progress and issue resolution with stakeholders.
• Creates and maintains project charter, plans, risk/issue log and communications plan.
• Drives proactive risk management and executive-level reporting.
• Reports to SSD leadership and manages matrixed relationships with other departments.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Communication

Cybersecurity

DoD experience

PMP certification

Change management

Business analysis

Tools

Microsoft Project Plan

Excel

PowerPoint

Office 365

Job description

Job Responsibilities:

Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management. Reviews status of projects and budgets, manages schedules, and prepares status reports. Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives. Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, clients and other stakeholders.This position is dedicated to Project Management across SSD, with a specific focus on Cybersecurity and Operational, and will report to the Manager, Strategy and Project Management.Responsible for executing multiple Cybersecurity high visibility, high risk and complex SSD projects in collaboration with other Departments, and Divisions.Create and maintain project charter, project plans, risk and issue log, and communications plan. PM will be responsible for scope, schedule, and budget management.Drive the project team for pro-active risk management.Provides project status reporting to stakeholders, SSD management and Laboratory senior management.Provides direction to the vertical teams in regards to project feasibility, development of business cases, establishment of priorities, monitoring progress, continual evaluation of project status and resource utilization from project inception to post-deployment closeout.Driving project close-out with a clear operationalization plan will be included in PM’s core responsibilities.Develop success measures (qualitative and quantitate) for projects to measure the effectiveness and outcomesProvide reporting at all levels for the assigned project, including core team, SSD leadership team and the executive team within Business Transformation Office (BTO) and Director’s office.Build Continuous Improvement model with SSD Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Information Services Department (ISD) and other teams.The SSD PM will build relationships, execute, manage and negotiate in a matrixed environment by following SPMO (Strategic Project Management Office) practices and project management methodology (Waterfall, Agile etc.)

Skills:

5-7 years of experience as a project managerExperience creating and maintaining project plans that communicate tasks, milestone dates, and status. The successful candidate will also be responsible for the development of project documents such as project charter, communications plan, requirements metrics, and similar documents.2-3 years of experience working in one of these: cybersecurity, DoD or similar government industryMinimum 2 years of experience working in a Project Management OfficeProficiency in O365, Microsoft Project Plan (.mpp) OfficeStrong skills in excel and power point for meaningful reporting and executive presentationsStrong interpersonal, organizational, written and verbal communication skills.Unix shell or perl scripting capabilityPMP certificationChange Management experienceBusiness analysis experienceEducation/Experience:

PMP certificationChange Management experienceBusiness analysis experience

Education/Experience:

Candidate should expect to be in the office 50% of the time (2-3 days/wk depending on project needs)Interim is sufficient to startInterview process will be an initial zoom interview, second round will be a larger audience - preferably in person but zoom will be ok if needed.