Project Manager

ROLE PURPOSE
Support accountable project delivery by building and maintaining project plans and timelines tracking internal hours against estimates managing risks issues assumptions and dependencies and providing clear visibility across project teams and stakeholders.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Project Manager to support delivery of cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams business functions technologies and external partners. This role requires an organized detail-oriented project professional who can bring structure to project activities maintain accurate plans and documentation and drive timely follow-through on commitments.
This individual will support projects through planning execution governance operational transition and closeout. The successful candidate must be comfortable collecting and validating inputs tracking internal hours against estimates managing risks and issues documenting decisions following up on actions and escalating blockers early.
The ideal candidate has experience supporting technology security risk audit or transformation projects involving multiple stakeholders detailed timelines interdependent deliverables and competing priorities.
Projects span the full Global Security Division (GSD) portfolio including audits regulatory requirements risk assessments and physical security initiatives.
Position Details
Reports to the Manager Program & Strategy Management Global Security. Each Project Manager owns their own projects and the team supports one another as needed.
Hybrid: onsite at Clients Atlanta office 4 days per week.
Contract-to-hire: this role is intended to convert to full-time Client employment. Candidates must be seeking a permanent position; contract-only candidates will not be considered.
Key Responsibilities
Project Leadership and Coordination
Support project initiatives consisting of multiple activities deliverables stakeholders and dependencies.
Help define project objectives scope success criteria milestones and measurable outcomes.
Establish and maintain project routines documentation and decision records that support effective execution.
Create clarity and alignment when requirements priorities assumptions or dependencies change.
Coordinate across business technology security legal compliance finance procurement operations and external partners as needed.
Project Planning and Timeline Management
Collect and validate estimates timelines assumptions dependencies risks and delivery inputs from project team members and stakeholders.
Build and maintain detailed project plans schedules milestones work breakdown structures critical paths and implementation timelines aligned to approved objectives.
Coordinate activities across teams to ensure alignment on deliverables owners due dates and commitments.
Monitor schedule progress and identify variances constraints or dependencies that may affect delivery.
Maintain accurate project documentation throughout the project lifecycle.
Project Execution and Delivery
Track execution across scope schedule milestones deliverables dependencies risks issues decisions and change activities.
Proactively identify gaps blockers overdue actions and delivery risks; facilitate mitigation and escalate appropriately to maintain momentum.
Lead project meetings and follow-Client ensuring clear decisions action items owners and target dates.
Drive accountability and transparency across internal teams external partners and stakeholders.
Support corrective actions and project course corrections when scope schedule assumptions or delivery conditions change.
Effort Tracking and Constraint Management
Track internal hours and vendor effort against approved estimates and planned allocations.
Identify and communicate material effort variances capacity constraints schedule impacts and dependency risks early.
Partner with project and functional leads to validate actual effort remaining estimates and potential delivery impacts.
Maintain clear supporting information for effort reporting and leadership discussions.
Governance Reporting and Stakeholder Communication
Prepare clear project status updates dashboards meeting recaps action summaries and leadership materials.
Create and maintain RAID logs covering risks assumptions issues and dependencies.
Provide visibility into project health milestones accomplishments upcoming deliverables decisions effort variances and items requiring attention.
Communicate risks issues blockers and decision needs clearly and escalate items requiring leadership support.
Support governance forums project reviews and decision-making meetings.
Vendor and Third-Party Coordination
Coordinate vendor activities deliverables timelines follow-Client risks and dependencies.
Monitor third-party commitments and escalate performance or delivery concerns.
Ensure vendor activities align with project objectives enterprise standards risk requirements and governance processes.
AI-Enabled and Data-Driven Delivery
Use AI-enabled tools to improve project planning documentation meeting summaries action tracking reporting analysis and risk identification.
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency quality governance and reporting through automation and advanced tooling.
Apply AI responsibly in alignment with enterprise policies confidentiality data protection and governance requirements.
Value Realization Transition and Closeout
Support tracking of project outcomes success measures risk reduction and expected value.
Coordinate formal closeout activities including delivery validation required documentation lessons learned and transition follow-Client.
Confirm project artifacts decisions and closeout materials are complete and stored appropriately.
Identify opportunities to improve templates reporting documentation and project delivery routines.
Collaboration and Capability Building
Build trusted relationships across distributed and cross-functional teams.
Promote consistent project management standards knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
Foster accountability transparency proactive communication ownership and results-oriented execution.
Qualifications
Required
Minimum of 3 years of project coordination or project management experience supporting cross-functional initiatives.
Experience supporting projects of low to moderate complexity across multiple teams or functions.
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain project plans schedules milestones action logs RAID logs and status reporting.
Experience tracking actual effort or internal hours against approved estimates and communicating material variances.
Experience creating project budget estimates and tracking project spend against budget.
Strong proficiency in project and collaboration tools such as ServiceNow PowerPoint Excel Jira Confluence Microsoft Planner Microsoft Teams Microsoft Copilot and related enterprise tooling.
Experience producing clear status updates dashboards meeting notes action logs and presentations for project stakeholders.
Hands-on experience using AI-enabled tools to enhance planning documentation analysis reporting and communication.
Strong communication organization follow-through facilitation and stakeholder coordination skills.
Ability to identify and communicate risks issues blockers dependencies and decision needs clearly and early.
Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
Experience coordinating with vendors or third-party suppliers to track deliverables timelines follow-Client risks and dependencies.
Preferred
Experience supporting technology cybersecurity risk audit or enterprise transformation initiatives.
Experience supporting enterprise platform implementations or technology deployments involving multiple stakeholders and operational teams.
Experience working in highly regulated environments.
Familiarity with cloud technologies enterprise applications security operations identity and access management data protection vulnerability or exposure management and governance projects.
Exposure to portfolio management strategic planning demand management and investment governance processes.
CAPM CSM SAFe PMP PMI-ACP or equivalent certification or experience.
Skills and Personal Attributes
Strong organizational and time-management skills with consistent attention to detail.
Ability to clarify expectations organize work and follow through on commitments.
Proactive follow-up mindset with comfort raising risks issues blockers variances or missing information early.
Analytical and able to translate project information into clear actionable updates.
Adaptable and comfortable supporting changing project needs in dynamic environments.
Collaborative team player who builds trust while supporting accountability and delivery discipline.
Clear professional and transparent communicator in written and verbal settings.
Success in This Role
Supports project delivery from planning through implementation transition and closeout.
Builds and maintains credible project plans timelines milestones and delivery tracking.
Identifies risks issues dependencies internal-hour variances and blockers early and escalates appropriately.
Provides clear accurate and timely reporting rather than activity updates alone.
Creates alignment across business technology operational vendor and stakeholder groups.
Keeps teams aligned on deliverables timelines owners commitments decisions and next steps.
Establishes transparency accountability and confidence throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Completes clean closeout with documented outcomes lessons learned required artifacts and transition follow-Client.

Metasys Technologies/NVISH is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identify national origin veteran or disability status.