Mid-Senior Project Manager​/OCM

Title:
Mid-Senior Level Project Manager / OCM

Terms:
Contract to hire role

Location:
Atlanta area

Mostly Remote / Occasional Onsite Meetings

Must live in Atlanta, GA

No 3rd party at this time

Are you looking for a career opportunity that allows you to grow your career? If so, this opportunity will genuinely excite you! Our client is transforming how their organization services their customers while aligning best in breed technology solutions. We are looking for a Mid‑Senior Level Project Manager/OCM who will help build out & develop best in class work and work on innovative projects for the business.

We are seeking a Mid‑Senior Level Project Manager with experience managing complex technology and business initiatives and a working knowledge of Organizational Change Management (OCM). The Project Manager will be responsible for planning and executing projects from initiation through completion while partnering with business and technology stakeholders to ensure successful adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.

The ideal candidate is a strong project manager who can manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, resources, and stakeholder communications, while also incorporating change management activities into the overall project plan.

• Lead projects from initiation through implementation and closeout.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, and key performance indicators.
• Manage project timelines, dependencies, resources, budgets, risks, issues, and action items.
• Facilitate project status meetings, working sessions, steering committee meetings, and stakeholder reviews.
• Track project progress and provide regular status reporting to project leadership and executives.
• Identify risks and issues early and develop mitigation and resolution strategies.
• Manage cross-functional teams consisting of business, technology, vendors, SMEs, and other stakeholders.
• Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and business requirements.
• Coordinate testing, training, deployment, go-live, and post-implementation activities as appropriate.
• Maintain project documentation, including RAID logs, status reports, decision logs, action items, and project plans.

• Incorporate OCM and adoption activities into project planning and execution.
• Partner with dedicated OCM, Training, HR, Communications, and business teams when applicable.
• Conduct stakeholder assessments and help identify groups impacted by project changes.
• Support development and execution of change impact assessments, stakeholder engagement plans, communication plans, and adoption strategies.
• Identify organizational, process, and technology changes that may impact employees or business operations.
• Help coordinate training, communications, readiness activities, and stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor stakeholder readiness and adoption throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify resistance to change and escalates or develop mitigation strategies.
• Reinforce change management activities throughout implementation rather than treating OCM as a separate workstream.

• Build strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders.
• Serve as a central point of communication between project teams, leadership, and impacted business groups.
• Facilitate alignment across teams with competing priorities.
• Communicate complex project information clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Manage expectations and proactively communicate project risks, changes, decisions, and dependencies.
• Support…