Senior IT Contracts​/Project Manager

Position: Sr. IT Contracts/Project Manager
Location: Quincy, MA (Hybrid)
Duration: Multi Year Renewable Contract
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week

Client is seeking a Senior IT Contracts/Project Manager for our Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T‑MSIS) team. The Sr. PM will manage projects across operations, technical solutions, and vendor contracts, ensuring financial requests are approved, contracts reviewed, business cases documented, and project schedules maintained.

• Work with business and IT management at all levels to understand and document the business case for technical initiatives.
• Create and manage completion of Business Cases, Project Proposals, Federal and State Funding Requests, Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and Requests for Quotes (RFQs).
• Contribute to and maintain T‑MSIS APD (Advance Planning Document) iterations.
• Lead procurement teams through vendor response review, selection, and contract negotiation phases.
• Lead cross‑collaboration in design, development, testing, and implementation of IT solutions.
• Ensure all project initiatives have a project plan, traceability, risk/issues list, and SharePoint documentation site.
• Effectively communicate with business teams, technical teams, and leadership across multiple disciplines, translating technical concepts into business terms.
• Adhere to all project methodology, policies, procedures, and quality assurance standards, including external agency requirements when applicable.
• Coordinate resource support across T‑MSIS Business Analysis, SQA, Development teams, and peers to align with capacity planning.
• Institute controls to manage project scope and track changes through the Change Advisory Board (CAB).
• Prepare and distribute weekly project status reports on progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Prepare system or program documentation, including data flow diagrams, flow charts, file layouts, input/output documentation, and project narratives.

• Five (5) years’ experience in IT project management, managing complex cross‑functional IT projects.
• Five (5) years of experience using hybrid and agile methodologies in a large IT enterprise environment, managing vendor partners.
• Five (5) years of experience documenting business cases, contract management, RFP and RFQ, and project funding requests.
• Proven experience with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Ability to understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills with both technical and non‑technical staff.
• Capacity to multi‑task and adapt to changing priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
• Experience with conflict resolution, consensus building, and mediation.
• Experience managing resources under a matrix reporting structure.
• Proficiency in project management software (e.g., Microsoft Project, JIRA, or similar).
• Experience working with federal reporting projects is a plus.
• Prior experience in government or public‑sector environments is an advantage.

• Five (5) years related experience documenting business cases, contract management, RFPs, RFQs, and project funding requests.
• Five (5) years proven experience with Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Experience managing resources under a matrix reporting structure.
• Proficiency in project management software such as Microsoft Project or JIRA.
• Experience in federal reporting projects will be a plus.
• Prior experience in government or public‑sector environments is an advantage.