Senior Project Manager - DHS

IO Datasphere, Inc.; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Wisconsin Department of Health Services in Madison, WI is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead strategic initiatives across divisions. You will coordinate PM activities, apply predictive, adaptive, or hybrid methodologies, and provide guidance to leadership on priority programs.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in PM with PMP, strong communication and EQ, and proven success managing $1M+ initiatives with multi-team collaboration. This role emphasizes business outcomes over technical delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project management experience with PMP certification.
• 8+ years managing multiple concurrent projects with business, vendor, organizational change management, and technology workstreams.
• 8+ years delivering projects with adaptive, hybrid, and predictive methodologies, including stage gate governance.
• 8+ years leading projects with measurable KPIs and outcomes.
• Led at least two large projects ($1M+ budget, 18+ months) through full life cycle.
• Capable of managing a project or subset with up to ten staff members.
• Bachelor's Degree and PMP certification.

Responsibilities

• Help executive leadership develop departmental strategy and define strategic initiatives.
• Facilitate professional business group discussions in decision-making environments.
• Coordinate and manage business-focused working teams for initiatives.
• Track key milestones and adjust plans/resources to meet customer needs.
• Research new technology and develop business cases for enterprise BI solutions.

Skills

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Hybrid project management

Emotional intelligence

Change management

Program management

KPIs & outcomes tracking

Education

Bachelor's Degree

PMP certification

Job description

Client Name Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS)

Location Madison, WI

Duration 1+ years

Due Date 11/10/2026

C2C Possible Yes. Rate depends on experience

Interview Method 1st Phone; 2nd MS Teams

NOTE: Candidate must be a current Wisconsin resident. NO RELOCATION ALLOWED. Hybrid work schedule, must be onsite at least once per quarter at your own expense. We can accept H1b, H4, TN and other valid work visas for IT. However we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.

Description:

Our client is looking for a Senior Project Manager to help make it happen by bringing initiative, imagination, and problem-solving skills to a large organization in Madison, WI. This role is responsible for managing and coordinating project management activities related to priority initiatives and projects. The person in this role is expected to apply predictive, adaptive, or hybrid project management methodology and tools to deliver projects. This position also provides advice and assistance to divisional leadership, and to other division administrators and leaders on issues of department-wide importance and/or of priority to specific divisions.

Tasks

• 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

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
• Business Process Reengineering
• Organizational Change Management
• Continuous Process Improvement
• Program Management

Skills Required

• 10+ years - Project Management experience along with a Project Management certification, such as the PMP
• 8+ years - 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
• 8+ years - Demonstrated experience delivering projects successfully with adaptive, hybrid, and predictive project management methodologies, including expertise with stage gate governance
• 8+ years - 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.
• 8+ years - 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
• Capable of managing a project or subset of a project with up to ten (10) staff members
• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrated experience using the critical path method in project delivery.