Project Manager, Change Management

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 work streams. 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.

Essential Functions:

• Leads planning and delivery of one or more program work streams, 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 work streams.
• 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…