Overview

Job Summary:

The Project Manager plays a critical role in planning and delivering OpCo Enablement initiatives. OpCo Enablement is an enterprise-wide team that works across a broad portfolio of technologies supporting multiple Allegis Group business lines and geographies. The Project Manager communicates with leaders at multiple levels and is aligned to one or more workstreams. This role is responsible for end-to-end planning, coordination, and delivery of assigned workstream(s), ensuring objectives are met on time, within scope, and within budget.

The Project Manager operates in a complex, matrixed environment involving internal employees, external implementation partners, and consultants across a distributed workforce. The role requires the ability to manage ambiguity, drive accountability, and maintain a constant focus on critical path delivery.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

Leads planning and delivery of one or more program workstreams, ensuring alignment to overall program goals and timelines.
Develops and maintains detailed project plans, including work sequencing, work breakdown structure, resource allocation, and delivery schedules.
Identifies and manages cross-workstream dependencies, proactively remediating work plans to keep the program on the critical path.
Manages team capacity to ensure work and timelines align with resource availability.
Proactively identifies, escalates, and manages risks and issues through appropriate escalation paths, driving toward resolution.
Partners with the Organizational Change Management (OCM) team to ensure workstream activities are coordinated with relevant change management efforts.
Participates in regular status reporting, providing data-driven transparency into progress for all levels of the organization.
Builds and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, delivery partners, and the business to ensure program success.
Translates complex technical requirements into clear business terms for diverse audiences.
Manages vendor and system integrator relationships within designated workstreams.
Contributes to continuous improvement through lessons learned, process analysis, and methodological refinement.
Leads remote and distributed teams, coordinating activities across time zones and organizational boundaries.

What essential function is the most complicated to perform?

Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues while escalating significant impacts appropriately.
Facilitate stakeholder engagement, decision-making, and alignment across business and technology teams.

What skill specialties are required, if any?

Advanced project and program management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid delivery)
Critical path and dependency management
Risk, issue, and change management
Resource planning and capacity management
Budget forecasting and financial management
Executive status reporting and governance management
Enterprise Transformation
Large-scale ERP implementation experience
Business process transformation and operating model change
Organizational change management coordination
Cross-functional program delivery in matrixed organizations
Multi-workstream planning and integration management
Executive stakeholder engagement
Influencing without direct authority
Vendor and system integrator management
Conflict resolution and negotiation
Facilitation of decision-making across business and technology teams
Building consensus among diverse stakeholder groups

What kinds of decisions can the individual make independently?

Project planning, task sequencing, and work breakdown structure.
Day-to-day resource coordination.
Schedule adjustments within approved tolerances.
Risk mitigation actions that do not change approved scope, budget, or objectives.
Issue resolution within the project team.
Status reporting and stakeholder communications.
Prioritization of project activities within the approved plan.

What kinds of decisions are escalated to the supervisor/manager to make?

Escalates decisions involving significant scope, budget, schedule, resource, risk, vendor, or strategic program impacts to PMO Leadership. Provides recommendations and data-driven analysis to support decision-making while maintaining ownership of day-to-day execution activities.

Budget Responsibility:

Manages workstream-level budget, including forecasting, tracking, and reporting of expenses.
Partners with IS Leadership and stakeholders to adjust budget based on agreed-upon scope and resource changes.

Qualifications

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline, or a combination of education and relevant experience.
10+ years of experience managing large-scale technology or business transformation programs in a matrixed environment.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams, including internal staff, external partners, and consultants.
Experience managing distributed and remote workforces across multiple geographies.
Proven track record of delivering complex programs on time and within budget.
Experience with Enterprise-wide implementations or large-scale enterprise technology programs.
PMP certification required; Agile, PgMP, or equivalent certifications strongly preferred.
Familiarity with both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Skills/Abilities:

Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.
Excellent presentation and written communication skills.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language.
Proficiency in project management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
Experience with work management tools such as Version One or equivalent.
Ability to influence without direct authority in a matrixed environment.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data-driven decision making.

Travel Requirements:

Up to 25%

Core Competencies:

Business Knowledge and Organizational Acumen
Building and Managing Relationships
Leading Self and Others
Drive for Results
Communication and Influence
Adaptability and Change Leadership

Benefits Overview:

Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. This role is eligible for the following:

Medical, dental and vision
Hospital plans
401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life and AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Company paid short and long-term disability
Health and Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA and DCFSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Tuition Assistance
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Allegis Group Paid Family Leave, Parental Leave)

Office Requirements:

Required in office 4 days a week out of our headquarters in Hanover, MD

Salary Range:

$115,400 - $174,900
The position is bonus eligible

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email Lauren Lara at or call for other accommodation options.

Allegis Group is the global leader in talent solutions, focused on working harder and caring more than any other provider. We’ll go further to understand the needs of our people – our clients, our candidates, and our employees – and to consistently deliver on our promise of an unsurpassed quality experience. That’s the Allegis Group difference, and it’s consistent across every Allegis Group brand. We exist to create significant opportunities for people – the employees and the leaders – that, day by day, shape our world.

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Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the essential job functions, general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

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