Project Manager III – Global Security Strategic Initiatives

TekWissen LLC

Job Location:

North Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 1 hour ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance peoples lives.

Position: Project Manager III Global Security Strategic Initiatives
Location: North Chicago IL 60064
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

Overview:

The Project Manager will play a key role in leading and coordinating enterprise-level initiatives including Global Security transformation efforts strategic technology projects and other cross-functional initiatives approved through the Project Management Office (PMO) governance.
This role requires a PM who can manage complexity enable executive decision-making and drive disciplined execution across multiple high visibility initiatives-often operating with incomplete information evolving scope and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as project manager for multiple concurrent initiatives across the Global Security strategic portfolio including transformation technology enablement and operational improvement efforts
Translate leadership direction into clear project plans milestones dependencies risks and execution
timelines.
Maintain project visibility and accountability drafting and updating core project documentation (e.g. 4 ups business cases project plans RAIDs etc) facilitating stakeholder meetings and following up with owners to ensure progress and closure.
Manage and track progress across multiple initiatives overseeing project intake scheduling timelines milestones and meeting cadence in alignment with Global Security PMO processes while proactively surfacing risks tradeoffs and capacity considerations to support timely decision making.
Arrange and facilitate regular stakeholder meetings.
Measure project outcomes and success against organizational goals.
Prepare materials for Steering Committee and leadership meetings including status updates decision briefs risk summaries and options analysis.
Partner with cross functional stakeholders including Business Technology Services (BTS) HR Legal Compliance Privacy EHS Facilities and regional Security teams to coordinate execution.
Ensure technical policy training and compliance requirements are identified and incorporated into project plans partnering with stakeholders to support change communications enable user adoption and minimize resistance.
Ensure project governance process documentation and training resources are developed stored and shared as appropriate.

Qualifications and Essential Skills Experience and Competencies

Degree in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience gained through enterprise project or transformation work.
6 years of experience managing complex cross functional projects or programs with a demonstrated ability to move work forward in environments where priorities evolve.
Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives at the same time balancing scope timelines and capacity while keeping leadership informed of risks and tradeoffs.
Strong business and operational acumen with the ability to anticipate organizational needs connect work to strategic intent and help leaders make informed decisions.
Experience leading or supporting enterprise level initiatives in transformation technology enablement regulated environments or security adjacent functions.
Comfortable working with senior leaders governance bodies and steering committees including preparing leadership ready materials and supporting decision making forums.
Strong cross functional collaboration skills with experience partnering across teams such as Technology HR Legal Compliance Privacy EHS Facilities and regional operations to coordinate
execution.
Experience supporting or leading change management and communications efforts including policy rollouts training coordination and adoption planning.
Familiarity with security compliance driven or regulated environments is strongly preferred including comfort navigating risk controls audits and policy requirements (deep technical expertise is not required).
Strong understanding of project governance portfolio management and change management principles with a bias toward disciplined execution and transparency.
Clear concise communicator with strong organizational skills and attention to detail able to distill complexity into actionable next steps.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint Word Excel); experience with Power Apps Power Automate Power BI or similar tools is a plus.
Familiarity with security or enterprise systems (e.g. access management platforms incident or mass notification systems) is a plus but not required.

What Success Looks Like

Leadership has clear visibility into priorities risks and capacity and can make informed decisions without surprise.
Strategic initiatives move from approval to delivery with disciplined governance and minimal rework.
Pilots result in clear scale / stop decisions and repeatable rollout plans.
Cross functional stakeholders view the PMO as a decision enablement partner not a reporting function.

What are the top 3-5 skills experience or education required for this position

1. Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management (Non-Negotiable)

Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities using a structured intake sequencing and delivery model.
Comfortable operating at both project-level execution and portfolio-level tradeoff discussions (capacity priority timing).
Experience supporting PMO governance not just running isolated projects.

2. Executive & Steering Committee Enablement

Demonstrated experience preparing leadership-ready materials: decision briefs status summaries risks/tradeoffs and options-not raw project updates.
Skilled at framing work so leaders can clearly answer: approve defer change scope or stop.
Comfortable facilitating governance forums (SteerCo leadership reviews) and following through on decisions.

3. Cross-Functional Influence & Change Management

Strong ability to work across Security BTS HR Legal Compliance EHS Facilities and Regions-without formal authority.
Experience supporting change management communications and training rollouts especially where policy or behavior change is involved.
Understands that adoption risk is just as critical as technical delivery.

4. Comfort in Regulated / Security-Adjacent Environments

Familiarity with security compliance-driven or regulated environments (physical security IT/security systems pharma manufacturing privacy safety).
Understands concepts like risk controls audits access management and policy enforcement-even if they are not the technical expert.

5. Structured Thinking Comfort with Ambiguity

Ability to bring structure to unclear work especially early-stage initiatives coming out of Phoenix AI exploration or strategy discussions.
Strong judgment on when to add rigor vs. keep things light depending on risk and scale.
Proactive self-directed and comfortable iterating as strategy evolves.

What is a nice to have (but not required) skill experience education or certification

Project Management certificate
Security Background

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance pe...

Overview:

Job Description:

Overview:

The Project Manager will play a key role in leading and coordinating enterprise-level initiatives including Global Security transformation efforts strategic technology projects and other cross-functional initiatives approved through the Project Management Office (PMO) governance.
This role requires a PM who can manage complexity enable executive decision-making and drive disciplined execution across multiple high visibility initiatives-often operating with incomplete information evolving scope and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as project manager for multiple concurrent initiatives across the Global Security strategic portfolio including transformation technology enablement and operational improvement efforts
Translate leadership direction into clear project plans milestones dependencies risks and execution
timelines.
Maintain project visibility and accountability drafting and updating core project documentation (e.g. 4 ups business cases project plans RAIDs etc) facilitating stakeholder meetings and following up with owners to ensure progress and closure.
Manage and track progress across multiple initiatives overseeing project intake scheduling timelines milestones and meeting cadence in alignment with Global Security PMO processes while proactively surfacing risks tradeoffs and capacity considerations to support timely decision making.
Arrange and facilitate regular stakeholder meetings.
Measure project outcomes and success against organizational goals.
Prepare materials for Steering Committee and leadership meetings including status updates decision briefs risk summaries and options analysis.
Partner with cross functional stakeholders including Business Technology Services (BTS) HR Legal Compliance Privacy EHS Facilities and regional Security teams to coordinate execution.
Ensure technical policy training and compliance requirements are identified and incorporated into project plans partnering with stakeholders to support change communications enable user adoption and minimize resistance.
Ensure project governance process documentation and training resources are developed stored and shared as appropriate.

Qualifications and Essential Skills Experience and Competencies

Degree in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience gained through enterprise project or transformation work.
6 years of experience managing complex cross functional projects or programs with a demonstrated ability to move work forward in environments where priorities evolve.
Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives at the same time balancing scope timelines and capacity while keeping leadership informed of risks and tradeoffs.
Strong business and operational acumen with the ability to anticipate organizational needs connect work to strategic intent and help leaders make informed decisions.
Experience leading or supporting enterprise level initiatives in transformation technology enablement regulated environments or security adjacent functions.
Comfortable working with senior leaders governance bodies and steering committees including preparing leadership ready materials and supporting decision making forums.
Strong cross functional collaboration skills with experience partnering across teams such as Technology HR Legal Compliance Privacy EHS Facilities and regional operations to coordinate
execution.
Experience supporting or leading change management and communications efforts including policy rollouts training coordination and adoption planning.
Familiarity with security compliance driven or regulated environments is strongly preferred including comfort navigating risk controls audits and policy requirements (deep technical expertise is not required).
Strong understanding of project governance portfolio management and change management principles with a bias toward disciplined execution and transparency.
Clear concise communicator with strong organizational skills and attention to detail able to distill complexity into actionable next steps.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint Word Excel); experience with Power Apps Power Automate Power BI or similar tools is a plus.
Familiarity with security or enterprise systems (e.g. access management platforms incident or mass notification systems) is a plus but not required.

What Success Looks Like

Leadership has clear visibility into priorities risks and capacity and can make informed decisions without surprise.
Strategic initiatives move from approval to delivery with disciplined governance and minimal rework.
Pilots result in clear scale / stop decisions and repeatable rollout plans.
Cross functional stakeholders view the PMO as a decision enablement partner not a reporting function.

What are the top 3-5 skills experience or education required for this position

1. Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management (Non-Negotiable)

Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities using a structured intake sequencing and delivery model.
Comfortable operating at both project-level execution and portfolio-level tradeoff discussions (capacity priority timing).
Experience supporting PMO governance not just running isolated projects.

2. Executive & Steering Committee Enablement

Demonstrated experience preparing leadership-ready materials: decision briefs status summaries risks/tradeoffs and options-not raw project updates.
Skilled at framing work so leaders can clearly answer: approve defer change scope or stop.
Comfortable facilitating governance forums (SteerCo leadership reviews) and following through on decisions.

3. Cross-Functional Influence & Change Management

Strong ability to work across Security BTS HR Legal Compliance EHS Facilities and Regions-without formal authority.
Experience supporting change management communications and training rollouts especially where policy or behavior change is involved.
Understands that adoption risk is just as critical as technical delivery.

4. Comfort in Regulated / Security-Adjacent Environments

Familiarity with security compliance-driven or regulated environments (physical security IT/security systems pharma manufacturing privacy safety).
Understands concepts like risk controls audits access management and policy enforcement-even if they are not the technical expert.

5. Structured Thinking Comfort with Ambiguity

Ability to bring structure to unclear work especially early-stage initiatives coming out of Phoenix AI exploration or strategy discussions.
Strong judgment on when to add rigor vs. keep things light depending on risk and scale.
Proactive self-directed and comfortable iterating as strategy evolves.

What is a nice to have (but not required) skill experience education or certification