Project Manager – Security

Planet Group; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Group is seeking a Project Manager in Atlanta to drive cross-functional initiatives across teams, business functions, and external partners. You will lead planning, execution, governance, and closeout while maintaining accurate schedules and documentation.

The role emphasizes proactive risk management, clear communications, and vendor coordination. A strong background in agile and waterfall delivery is expected, with hands-on use of enterprise tooling and AI-enabled planning.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of project coordination or project management experience.
• Experience supporting cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams/functions.
• Ability to build and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, RAID logs, and status reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead project initiatives across activities, deliverables, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Define objectives, scope, milestones, and success criteria.
• Maintain project routines, documentation, and decision records.
• Coordinate with business, technology, security, legal, and external partners.
• Track estimates, timelines, risks, and inputs from team members.
• Prepare status updates, dashboards, RAID logs, and leadership materials.
• Identify gaps and blockers; drive mitigation and escalation as needed.
• Support governance forums and decision-making meetings.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder coordination

Communication

Risk management

Facilitation

Agile & Waterfall

AI-enabled planning

Vendor coordination

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Excel

PowerPoint

Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Copilot

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Atlanta, GA

Contract length: 3 months then conversion

Schedule: Fulltime

Pay: $60/hr to $66.66/hr

Job Overview

We are seeking a Project Manager to support delivery of cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams, business functions, technologies, and external partners. This role requires an organized, detail-oriented project professional who can bring structure to project activities, maintain accurate plans and documentation, and drive timely follow-through on commitments. This individual will support projects through planning, execution, governance, operational transition, and closeout. The successful candidate must be comfortable collecting and validating inputs, tracking internal hours against estimates, managing risks and issues, documenting decisions, following up on actions, and escalating blockers early. The ideal candidate has experience supporting technology, security, risk, audit or transformation projects involving multiple stakeholders, detailed timelines, interdependent deliverables, and competing priorities. Projects span the full Global Security Division (GSD) portfolio, including audits, regulatory requirements, risk, assessments, and physical security initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Leadership & Coordination
  • Support project initiatives consisting of multiple activities, deliverables, stakeholders, and dependencies.
  • Help define project objectives, scope, success criteria, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Establish and maintain project routines, documentation, and decision records that support effective execution.
  • Create clarity and alignment when requirements, priorities, assumptions, or dependencies change.
  • Coordinate across business, technology, security, legal, compliance, finance, procurement, operations, and external partners as needed.
• Project Planning & Timeline Management
  • Collect and validate estimates, timelines, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and delivery inputs from project team members and stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdown structures, critical paths, and implementation timelines aligned to approved objectives.
  • Coordinate activities across teams to ensure alignment on deliverables, owners, due dates, and commitments.
  • Monitor schedule progress and identify variances, constraints, or dependencies that may affect delivery.
  • Maintain accurate project documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
• Project Execution & Delivery
  • Track execution across scope, schedule, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and change activities.
  • Proactively identify gaps, blockers, overdue actions, and delivery risks; facilitate mitigation and elevate appropriately to maintain momentum.
  • Lead project meetings and follow-ups, ensuring clear decisions, action items, owners, and target dates.
  • Drive accountability and transparency across internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders.
  • Support corrective actions and project course corrections when scope, schedule, assumptions, or delivery conditions change.
• Effort Tracking & Constraint Management
  • Track internal hours and vendor effort against approved estimates and planned allocations.
  • Identify and communicate material effort variances, capacity constraints, schedule impacts, and dependency risks early.
  • Partner with project and functional leads to validate actual effort, remaining estimates, and potential delivery impacts.
  • Maintain clear supporting information for effort reporting and leadership discussions.
• Governance, Reporting, & Stakeholder Communication
  • Prepare clear project status updates, dashboards, meeting recaps, action summaries, and leadership materials.
  • Create and maintain RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
  • Provide visibility into project health, milestones, accomplishments, upcoming deliverables, decisions, effort variances, and items requiring attention.
  • Communicate risks, issues, blockers, and decision needs clearly and escalates items requiring leadership support.
  • Support governance forums, project reviews, and decision-making meetings.
• Vendor & Third-Party Coordination
  • Coordinate vendor activities, deliverables, timelines, follow-ups, risks, and dependencies.
  • Monitor third-party commitments and escalates performance or delivery concerns.
  • Ensure vendor activities align with project objectives, enterprise standards, risk requirements, and governance processes.
• AI-Enabled & Data-Driven Delivery
  • Use AI-enabled tools to improve project planning, documentation, meeting summaries, action tracking, reporting, analysis, and risk identification.
  • Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, governance, and reporting through automation and advanced tooling.
  • Apply AI responsibly in alignment with enterprise policies, confidentiality, data protection, and governance requirements.
• Value Realization, Transition, & Closeout
  • Support tracking of project outcomes, success measures, risk reduction, and expected value.
  • Coordinate formal closeout activities, including delivery validation, required documentation, lessons learned, and transition follow-ups.
  • Confirm project artifacts, decisions, and closeout materials are complete and stored appropriately.
  • Identify opportunities to improve templates, reporting, documentation, and project delivery routines.
• Collaboration & Capability Building
  • Build trusted relationships across distributed and cross-functional teams.
  • Promote consistent project management standards, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
  • Foster accountability, transparency, proactive communication, ownership, and results-oriented execution.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of project coordination or project management experience supporting cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting projects of low to moderate complexity across multiple teams or functions.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, action logs, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Experience tracking actual effort or internal hours against approved estimates and communicating material variances.
• Experience creating project budget estimates and tracking project spend against budget.
• Strong proficiency in project and collaboration tools such as ServiceNow, PowerPoint, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot, and related enterprise tooling.
• Experience producing clear status updates, dashboards, meeting notes, action logs, and presentations for project stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI-enabled tools to enhance planning, documentation, analysis, reporting, and communication.
• Strong communication, organization, follow-through, facilitation, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to identify and communicate risks, issues, blockers, dependencies, and decision needs clearly and early.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Experience coordinating with vendors or third-party suppliers to track deliverables, timelines, follow-ups, risks, and dependencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting technology, cybersecurity, risk, audit, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting enterprise platform implementations or technology deployments involving multiple stakeholders and operational teams.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, enterprise applications, security operations, identity and access management, data protection, vulnerability or exposure management, and governance projects.
• Exposure to portfolio management, strategic planning, demand management, and investment governance processes.
• CAPM, CSM, SAFe, PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification or experience.

Skills & Personal Attributes

• Strong organizational and time-management skills with consistent attention to detail.
• Ability to clarify expectations, organize work, and follow through on commitments.
• Proactive follow-up mindset with comfort raising risks, issues, blockers, variances, or missing information early.
• Analytical and able to translate project information into clear, actionable updates.
• Adaptable and comfortable supporting changing project needs in dynamic environments.
• Collaborative team player who builds trust while supporting accountability and delivery discipline.
• Clear, professional, and transparent communicator in written and verbal settings.