Project Manager

Apex Systems; Merrifield (VA); Remote; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems in Merrifield, VA is seeking an experienced Project Manager to partner with technology leaders and drive highly visible initiatives. You will provide structure, governance, and delivery discipline across portfolios, ensuring priorities are clear and risks are surfaced early.

The role requires strong communication with senior leaders, governance cadences, and accountability across teams. Experience in Agile, hybrid delivery, and ServiceNow familiarity is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience managing complex, highly visible technology initiatives.
• Strong governance, controls, status reporting and backlog visibility skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership across strategic initiatives and continuous-improvement efforts.
• Establish objectives, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
• Translate objectives into actionable work plans with clear ownership and execution visibility.
• Maintain an integrated view across multiple platform initiatives and avoid siloed efforts.
• Facilitate sessions to move teams from discussion to concrete actions and decisions.
• Identify delivery gaps, unclear ownership, and conflicting priorities requiring leadership attention.
• Coordinate executive governance and leadership review materials.
• Build trusted relationships with platform leadership, SMEs, stakeholders, and partners.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and actions across initiatives.

Skills

Project management

Executive communication

Governance cadence

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

## Job Description# Project ManagerApply**Job#: 3058370****Job Description:**Project Manager**Location:** Merrifield, Virginia (Remote)**Alternative Location**: U.S. (Remote)Role OverviewThis position requires an experienced Project Manager to partner with technology leaders in organizing, governing, and advancing highly visible strategic initiatives. The selected candidate will provide structure and delivery discipline across continuous improvement, strategic governance, platform initiatives, and the associated portfolio of work. This role functions as a connector between leaders, delivery teams, stakeholders, and partners to ensure priorities are clear, commitments are tracked, and risks are surfaced early.Key Responsibilities* Provide project management leadership across highly visible strategic initiatives and continuous-improvement efforts.* Establish clear objectives, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, and expected outcomes.* Translate broad leadership objectives into actionable work plans and maintain visibility from strategy through execution.* Maintain an integrated view across multiple platform initiatives rather than managing each effort in isolation.* Facilitate working sessions that move teams from discussion toward clear outcomes, owners, actions, and decisions.* Identify delivery gaps, unclear ownership, competing priorities, and dependencies requiring leadership attention.* Coordinate preparation for recurring executive governance and leadership reviews, developing concise, executive-ready status materials.* Build trusted working relationships with platform leadership, managers, technical subject matter experts, stakeholders, and enterprise partners.* Maintain visibility into material risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and actions across assigned initiatives.Required Qualifications**Education:** A bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience is preferred.**Experience:** Demonstrated project or program management experience supporting complex, highly visible technology initiatives. Experience working directly with senior leaders and translating detailed delivery information into executive-level communication is required.**Technical Skills:** Strong experience establishing governance cadences, project controls, status reporting, backlog visibility, and accountability mechanisms. Proficiency in tracking risks, dependencies, and decisions, along with strong presentation skills, is necessary.Preferred Qualifications* Familiarity with ServiceNow platform teams or enterprise ServiceNow initiatives.* Experience operating in an Agile, product, portfolio, or hybrid delivery environment.* Professional project management certification. *Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.**Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Everforth Apex and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://www.apexsystems.com/privacy-policy**Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.**Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.**If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to participate in an interview with a virtual recruiter or to use our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [e-mail] or 804-523-8228. Please note that this contact information is strictly to be used for medical ADA accommodations and that no other inquiries will be answered.**UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex Systems.***Employee Type:** Contract**Remote:** Yes**Location:** Merrifield, VA, US**Job Type:****Date Posted:** November 4, 2026**Pay Range:** $40 - $60 per hour