Project Manager, Change Management, IT Project Manager

Job Details:

Job Location:

Madison, NJ 07940, Salary Range: $ - $ Salary, Role Overview

BEM Systems, An Aventia Company, delivers innovative SaaS, AI-enabled, GIS-integrated, and mobile solutions to Departments of Transportation (DOTs), transit agencies, and government organizations. Our flagship PAECETrak platform supports right-of-way, utilities, permitting, infrastructure management, and related business processes through secure, configurable cloud-based applications.

• Project Delivery:
  Lead multiple concurrent enterprise software implementations and upgrades from kickoff through acceptance and transition to support.
• Planning and Controls:
  Own project plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, resources, milestones, dependencies, and delivery reporting.
• Scope and Commercial Management:
  Maintain requirements traceability, enforce SOW and change control to prevent scope creep, and manage margin and invoicing.
• Client Leadership:
  Serve as the primary client contact and lead status meetings, working sessions, steering committees, demonstrations, and executive communications.
• Team Leadership:
  Coordinate cross-functional teams across analysis, configuration, development, integrations, migration, testing, training, deployment, and support.
• Risk, Quality, and Governance:
  Manage risks, issues, decisions, actions, acceptance, document control, and delivery quality; escape concerns and drive corrective action.
• Implementation and Change Management:
  Lead readiness, testing, training, go-live, stabilization, stakeholder communications, adoption, and organizational change activities.
• AI-Enabled Project Management:
  Use approved AI and automation tools to improve planning, reporting, meeting follow-up, risk analysis, documentation, and delivery efficiency with appropriate human review and security controls.
• Continuous Improvement:
  Capture lessons learned and improve delivery methods, templates, estimates, metrics, and portfolio visibility.

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering, information systems, organizational management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of project management experience leading enterprise software, SaaS, web, or systems implementations.
• Demonstrated success managing complex implementation projects valued at $1M-$5M from initiation through deployment, stabilization, acceptance, and support transition.
• Advanced scope management skills, including requirements baselining, traceability, impact assessment, SOW alignment, change control, and scope-creep prevention.
• Experience managing fixed-price projects, budgets, forecasts, margins, milestone invoicing, risks, and contract deliverables.
• Experience leading training, adoption, and organizational change for enterprise implementations.
• Demonstrated experience leading onsite, remote, and offshore software development and implementation teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong multi-project management capabilities, including prioritization, resource coordination, dependency management, schedule recovery, and executive reporting.
• Advanced stakeholder management skills, with experience aligning executives, client teams, technical teams, subcontractors, and other delivery partners.
• Proficiency with AI-enabled productivity and project management tools.
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum and traditional project management methods.
• Excellent client-facing, executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and organizational skills.
• PMP certification.

• Implementation of enterprise solutions for state, county, city, transportation, transit, infrastructure, right-of-way, property, permitting, utilities, or asset-management organizations.
• Government contracting, procurement, formal acceptance processes, and change-order negotiations.
• Cloud-hosted SaaS platforms, Azure environments, APIs, system integrations, GIS/Esri, data migration, analytics, and mobile applications.
• Tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure Dev Ops, SharePoint, or equivalent project and collaboration platforms.
• Program management, PMO development, portfolio reporting, or mentoring other project managers.
• PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master, or comparable Agile certification.

• Projects are delivered with clear governance, reliable forecasts, disciplined scope control, and timely escalation of risks and decisions.
• Clients receive transparent communication and understand status,…