Project Manager IV

Planet Group; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 92,000 - 99,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Group in Madison, WI seeks a Project Manager IV to lead strategic initiatives with executive stakeholders in a largely remote role within Wisconsin. The position emphasizes business focus over technical tasks and requires 10+ years of PM experience and a professional PM certification.

The role involves aligning priorities across the executive team, IT, and sponsors, and ensuring successful delivery of large projects with measurable KPI outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project management experience with business acumen and a professional Project Manager certification.
• PMP certification highly preferred.
• Strong executive-level communication and stakeholder management.
• This role is business-focused, not a technical PM position.

Responsibilities

• Develop a departmental strategy with the executive leadership and translate it into strategic initiatives.
• Communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of business leaders and maintain high EQ.
• Partner with the Executive team, sponsors, IT and other leaders to align priorities and solve complex problems.
• Facilitate business group discussions in decision-making environments.
• Assemble and manage business-focused working teams.
• Track key milestones and adjust plans and resources to meet customer needs.
• Research new technology and build business cases for BI solutions.
• Perform additional duties as needed.

Skills

Project management accountability

Adaptive & predictive PM

KPIs tracking

Large projects leadership

Communication & EQ

Education

Project Manager certification (PMP)

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager IV

Location: 99% remote within Wisconsin

Contract length: 7 months

Schedule: 40 hrs; 8a to 5p

Pay: $67/hr to $72/hr, DOE

Job Overview:

As a Project Manager you will "help make it happen" by bringing initiative, imagination, and problem-solving skills to a large organization in Madison, WI. To be successful in this role, an ideal individual typically has 10+ years of project management experience with business acumen and a professional Project Manager certification.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for helping the executive leadership team develop a departmental strategy and then help define strategic initiatives from that strategy
• Exceptional communication skills and a high degree of emotional intelligence (EQ) to work with a broad spectrum of business leaders effectively
  • This project is a business-focused project manager position and not a technical position.
• Partner with the Executive team, business sponsors, IT Senior Management, and other team leaders to ensure priorities of the project are understood and managed accordingly for complex technical and non-technical problems are solved.
• Must be able to facilitate business group discussions professionally in a decision-making environment
• Responsible for assembling and managing business-focused working teams
• Responsible for tracking key project milestones and adjusting project plans and resources to meet customers' needs.
• Research new technology and develop business cases to support enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions.
• Additional duties, as needed.

Top Skills (8 Yrs of Exp):

• Increasing levels of project management accountability and assignment complexity, demonstrating the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with business, vendor, organizational change management, and technology workstreams
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects successfully with adaptive, hybrid, and predictive project management methodologies, including expertise with stage gate governance
• Demonstrated ability to manage and complete projects with measurable success against key performance indicators (KPIs) as defined with the business or program areas at the project outset, demonstrating the project met or surpassed the desired outcomes
• Successfully led at least two (2), large ($1M budget with a duration of 18 months or longer) projects, in a project manager role, through the entire project management life cycle: initiation through project closeout

Nice to Haves:

• PMP Certification (Highly Preferred)
• Demonstrated experience using the critical path method in project delivery
• Experience with advanced analytics
• Change management experience
• MS Project experience

Ideal candidates for this position will be required to have experience in one or (preferably) more of the following areas:

• Strategy Development at the Organizational Level
• Development of Strategic Initiatives
• Executive Level Meeting Facilitation
• Business Process Reengineering
• Organizational Change Management
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Program Management