Project Manager - Pursuit Management

Pursuit Project Manager

Maximus is hiring a Pursuit Project Manager to drive the successful execution of complex business development opportunities and RFP responses. This role is responsible for leading cross-functional pursuit teams, developing and managing integrated project plans, tracking milestones and risks, facilitating decision-making, and ensuring on-time delivery of critical pursuit activities. The ideal candidate is a strong project manager who thrives in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, excels at coordinating stakeholders across multiple functions, and leverages AI-enabled tools and automation to improve visibility, efficiency, and execution.

This position also provides opportunities to mentor junior team members and contribute to continuous improvement of pursuit management and governance practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead pursuit teams to execute required actions and deliverables aligned to opportunity timelines and RFP requirements.
• Create and manage integrated project plans, milestone schedules, dependencies, decision checkpoints, and readiness calendars.
• Track action ownership, due dates, completion status, risks, issues, open decisions, and leadership follow-ups.
• Manage risk, issue, and action-item logs; escalate decisions and barriers with clear options, impacts, and recommended next steps.
• Coordinate and negotiate across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, proposal, sales, and other pursuit resources to maintain schedule adherence.
• Use approved AI-enabled tools and automation practices to streamline recurring status reporting, meeting-note synthesis, action-item extraction, and risk visibility.
• Mentor junior staff; review trackers, status updates, and governance materials for clarity, completeness, and follow-through.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Program Requirements:

Specialized experience needed: hands-on management of complex pursuits, proposals, implementations, or other deadline-driven projects with multiple work streams, dependencies, governance routines, and executive visibility.

Candidates should be advanced users of integrated project plans, milestone schedules, readiness trackers, RAID logs, action registers, decision logs, and executive status reporting.

Must have strong cross-functional coordination experience across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, sales, proposal, SMEs, and leadership stakeholders.

Must communicate clearly, escalate early, and use approved AI-enabled tools to streamline notes, action tracking, reporting, and risk visibility.

This position is fully remote and will require a home office.

Home office requirements:

Reliable high-speed internet service

Minimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivity

Minimum 5 Mpbs upload speeds

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Minimum Salary $90,000

Maximum Salary $125,000