Business Consultant PMO

Title: Business Consultant PM

Location: Newark NJ (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Role Summary:

• We are seeking a consulting-oriented Senior Project Manager to lead complex client-facing initiatives across business and technology environments.
• This role requires a professional who can manage end-to-end delivery drive stakeholder alignment mitigate execution risks and ensure successful outcomes in fast-paced cross-functional consulting engagements.
• The ideal candidate will bring strong project governance executive communication and delivery leadership capabilities while operating as a trusted advisor to client and internal teams.

Day to Day Job Duties:

• Lead end-to-end planning execution governance and delivery of client projects across multiple workstreams.
• Partner with client stakeholders internal delivery teams vendors and leadership to define project scope timelines milestones and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans RAID logs status reports dependency trackers and governance updates.
• Manage daily and weekly execution activities to ensure deliverables are completed on schedule within scope and aligned to client expectations.
• Facilitate project meetings steering committee reviews stakeholder checkpoints and decision-making forums.
• Identify risks issues and interdependencies early and drive mitigation escalation and resolution actions proactively.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business technology operations and external partners to maintain delivery momentum.
• Track budget resource utilization and delivery performance and provide clear reporting to leadership and client sponsors.
• Support change management communication planning and adoption activities to help clients realize project value.
• Ensure adherence to consulting delivery standards project management methods documentation quality and governance processes.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for clients by providing transparency structured communication and practical problem-solving throughout the engagement.
• Contribute to delivery planning implementation readiness and continuous improvement across consulting project execution.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in project management consulting delivery program coordination or related roles.
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional business and technology initiatives in client-facing or enterprise environments.
• 5 years of experience in project governance stakeholder management executive reporting and delivery oversight.
• Strong experience managing project scope schedules risks issues budgets dependencies and change requests.
• Demonstrated ability to lead projects in matrixed environments involving multiple stakeholders teams and priorities.
• Strong understanding of project delivery methodologies including waterfall agile and hybrid approaches.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively with client stakeholders senior leadership and delivery teams.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as MS Project Jira Smartsheet Azure DevOps or similar platforms.
• Strong organizational analytical facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate independently while maintaining a high level of accountability in a consulting environment

Travel:

• Minimal travel; up to 10% based on business needs.

Degree:

• Bachelors degree in business Information Technology Engineering Management or a related field.

Nice to Have:

• PMP certification.
• PRINCE2 certification