Strategic Project Manager — Cross-Functional Initiatives

jackson; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jackson is seeking a Project Manager to plan, lead, and deliver cross-functional initiatives across Operations and other departments. You will drive planning, scheduling, budgeting, and governance for projects including system implementations and process improvements.

The role requires 3+ years of PM experience, strong stakeholder management, and proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power BI, and Power Automate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required.
• 3+ years of project management experience required.
• Experience with enterprise project management systems; Jira and Confluence preferred.
• Experience managing business process changes and/or projects with technical development and delivery of technical solutions preferred.
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional project teams from initiation through implementation and stabilization.
• Develop project plans, milestones, timelines, dependencies, resource requirements, and success measures.
• Establish project governance, including status reporting, decision-making forums, issue escalation, and communications.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Maintain project decisions, action items, assumptions, and status documentation.
• Provide regular, concise updates to senior leadership and project sponsors.
• Identify barriers to successful delivery and develop mitigation and resolution strategies.
• Coordinate multiple workstreams and ensure alignment across business and technology teams.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, and decision forums.
• Support initiatives involving administrative systems, data, reporting, workflows, and operational controls.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Planning

Stakeholder management

Project governance

Risk management

Team leadership

Change management

Jira

Confluence

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Power BI

Power Automate

Job description

Jackson is seeking a Project Manager to plan, lead, and deliver cross-functional initiatives across Operations and other departments. You will drive planning, scheduling, budgeting, and governance for projects including system implementations and process improvements.

The role requires 3+ years of PM experience, strong stakeholder management, and proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power BI, and Power Automate.