Certified Project Manager

Codeworks, an LRS company, is seeking a Sr Project Manager to lead large-scale, high-visibility business transformation and organizational initiatives. This role is ideal for a seasoned project leader who has successfully managed complex enterprise projects across business, vendor, organizational change management, and technology work streams while partnering closely with executive leadership and stakeholders.

• Lead complex enterprise projects from initiation through implementation, transition to operations, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain project charters, project plans, schedules, budgets, risk registers, status reports, and governance artifacts.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects and work streams, including business, organizational change management, vendor, and technology-focused initiatives.
• Facilitate executive-level meetings, stakeholder discussions, decision-making sessions, and strategic planning activities.
• Establish project governance structures, escalation paths, reporting frameworks, and performance measures.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, business leaders, vendors, and subject matter experts.
• Monitor project progress, risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, and resource allocations.
• Ensure project deliverables meet established success criteria and organizational objectives.
• Support organizational strategy development and transformation initiatives.
• Drive business process improvement, organizational change management, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Prepare executive communications, recommendations, business cases, and status briefings.
• Mentor project teams and promote project management best practices.

• Minimum 8 years+ of progressively responsible project management experience.
• Demonstrated success managing large-scale enterprise initiatives involving multiple business and technical work streams.
• Experience utilizing adaptive, predictive, and hybrid project management methodologies.
• Experience working within formal stage-gate governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver projects that achieve measurable business outcomes and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Experience leading at least two large projects ($1M+ budget and 18+ month duration) through the full project lifecycle.
• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, quality, and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong facilitation, communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
• Experience developing project artifacts including:
  • Project Charters
  • Project Plans
  • Risk Registers
  • Status Reports
  • Executive Briefings
• Ability to lead business-focused teams and facilitate decision-making discussions.
• Bachelor's Degree.
• Typically 10+ years of project or program management experience.
• Candidates must be current Wisconsin residents. No relocation is permitted. Position requires onsite attendance at least once per quarter at a Wisconsin office location.

• PMP Certification (Highly Preferred).
• Experience utilizing Critical Path Method (CPM) for project delivery.
• Experience with organizational change management initiatives.
• Experience with business process reengineering and continuous improvement.
• Program management experience.
• Strategy development and strategic initiative planning experience.
• Experience facilitating executive-level meetings.
• Experience with advanced analytics initiatives.
• Microsoft Project experience.

The base range for this contract position is $70.00 - $75.00 per hour, depending on experience. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires across all U.S. locations. Individual compensation is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant…