Project Manager

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC; Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC in Lansing, MI is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead IT programs with budgets over $20M. The role requires coordinating multi-vendor teams, managing stakeholders, and ensuring delivery within Michigan methodologies.

The position offers a hybrid work model with on-site Tuesdays and Wednesdays and remote other days, and requires strong leadership, communication, and governance skills.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager.
• Experience managing budgets greater than $20 million.
• IT projects in a large, complex enterprise environment.
• Experience managing vendors and/or third-party solution providers.
• Experience with multi-vendor environments in government contexts.

Responsibilities

• Prepare information for presentations to executives, managers, and project teams.
• Monitor, control, and communicate project progress including cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Lead and foster collaboration between technical and business teams with stakeholder consensus.
• Manage interfaces with other agencies and ensure vendor deliverables align with procedures.
• Ensure adherence to Michigan methodologies and proper lifecycle transitions.
• Oversee Change Management processes and ensure proper approvals for scope/schedule/budget changes.
• Understand project benefits and update related artifacts accordingly.
• Review vendor contracts and manage vendor deliverables and approvals.
• Facilitate stakeholder interactions and ensure deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Organizational skills

Multi-project leadership

Education

PMP Certification

Tools

Clarity

Job description

Job Overview

Job ID: J53576

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Lansing, MI

Duration: 24 Months + Extension

Domain Exposure: Real Estate

Work Authorization: US Citizen,Green Card,OPT-EAD,CPT,H-1B,H4-EAD,L2-EAD,GC-EAD

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Employment Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Job Description

• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for managing and communication of interfaces related to other agencies.
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the State of Michigan's methodologies, including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
• Facilitates interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager.
• 8+ years of experience managing projects with budgets greater than $20 million.
• 8+ years of experience managing IT projects within a large, complex enterprise environment.
• 8+ years of experience managing vendors and/or third-party solution providers.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
• Experience leading multiple concurrent projects and driving work to successful completion with minimal supervision.
• Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system/ business owners from other departments.
• Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment.
• Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS).
• Oversee technical teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) or other relevant project management certification.
• Experience using project portfolio management systems and tools (eg. Clarity).
• Previous experience working within state government, the Department of Corrections, or other public sector agencies.
• Local to Lansing, Michigan area (within 1 hour) is highly desired. Work will be Monday and Tuesday in office; Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday can be remote (non- negotiable).

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.