Strategic Project Leader: Turn Ambiguity into Impact

PER SE GROUP INC; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Per Sé Group is seeking a Senior Strategic Project Manager to join our client’s team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa or Madison, Wisconsin. The role focuses on turning ambiguous business needs into executable projects, guiding discovery, planning, and governance through full lifecycle.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams, manage scope and budgets, and partner with business and technology leaders to deliver strategic initiatives. PMP certification and 5+ years of experience are required.

Qualifications

• PMP certification is required.
• 5+ years of project management experience on medium-to-large, complex projects.
• Experience managing technology, software impl., enterprise apps, or tech-enabled projects.
• Experience across full lifecycle from initiation to closeout.
• Strong business analysis: requirements discovery, business case, solution evaluation.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and tech leaders to understand needs, priorities, and outcomes.
• Lead discovery sessions, requirements discussions, planning workshops, and alignment.
• Develop business cases, project charters, feasibility analyses, cost-benefit studies, and exec recommendations.
• Evaluate solutions, identify risks, costs, resources, dependencies, and impacts.
• Build project foundation: scope, governance, schedules, budgets, resources, risk, success measures.
• Mobilize cross-functional teams with defined roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths.
• Lead approved tech projects through execution, implementation, transition, and closeout.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, vendors, dependencies, performance.
• Communicate with teams, leaders, governance groups, and executives.
• Support change management, readiness, training, adoption, and transition to ops.

Skills

PMP certification

5+ years project management

Tech project management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Ambiguity management

Financial management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ERP systems

EAM systems

Job description

Per Sé Group is seeking a Senior Strategic Project Manager to join our client’s team in Cedar Rapids, Iowa or Madison, Wisconsin. The role focuses on turning ambiguous business needs into executable projects, guiding discovery, planning, and governance through full lifecycle.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams, manage scope and budgets, and partner with business and technology leaders to deliver strategic initiatives. PMP certification and 5+ years of experience are required.