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Senior Project Manager


Job Location:

Oak Brook, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 5 August 2026 (24 days ago)
Application Deadline: 2 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Inside our Project Management Office

The Project Management Office (PMO) at Burwood Group now part of Sikich is a dynamic team of professionals dedicated to leading coordinating and delivering complex projects that drive business transformation for clients across diverse industries. Renowned for its innovative customer-focused approach the PMO combines deep project management expertise with a strong commitment to collaboration continuous improvement and achieving impactful results.

How Youll Make an Impact

As a Senior Project Manager aligned to our Data and Application Cloud Services (DACS) team you will lead complex high-impact client engagements that may involve multiple workstreams diverse stakeholder groups and cross-practice collaboration. You will ensure successful project delivery while aligning with client expectations contractual commitments financial targets and strategic objectives. Operating with a high degree of autonomy youll serve as a trusted advisor to clients an internal leader within the PMO and a partner to the DACS team Leaders providing Portfolio Management insights and ongoing delivery optimization recommendations.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Lead multi-phase and multi-disciplinary client engagements.
  • Manage dependencies and coordination across multiple workstreams.
  • Own project financial performance including forecasting margin protection revenue recognition and proactive recovery planning. 
  • Partner with Practice Leadership to optimize delivery/profitability while maintaining client satisfaction.  
  • Drive disciplined scope management and profitability alignment.
  • Identify assess and mitigate project risks before they impact delivery.
  • Build and maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders and DACS Leadership.
  • Present project status risks and recommendations to client executive audiences.
  • Present Portfolio and project status risks and recommendations to internal executive audiences.
  • Contribute to project management standards methodologies and best practices across the organization
  • Utilize delivery health indicators to proactively identify emerging risks and recommend corrective actions before client outcomes are impacted. 

Qualifications :

Your Strengths in Action

  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive complex engagements from initiation through completion.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and solve problems in fast-paced environments.
  • Strong financial acumen and experience managing project profitability.
  • Passion for mentoring others and elevating team performance.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence executive decision making through clear communications data driven recommendations and trusted partnerships. 

Your Core Skills & Certifications

  • 812 years of project management experience.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex client engagements.
  • Strong financial governance and executive communication skills.
  • Experience managing large-scale multi-workstream projects.
  • PMP certification or equivalent credential strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience managing enterprise cloud deployments specifically utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies strongly preferred.

Nice to Have

  • Experience supporting Organizational Change Management (OCM) initiatives including stakeholder engagement communication planning business readiness training coordination and user adoption strategies.
  • Familiarity with Organizational Change Management frameworks such as Prosci ADKAR or similar methodologies.
  • Prosci Change Management Certification or equivalent experience is a plus.
  • Experience partnering with business and technical teams to drive successful adoption during enterprise technology and cloud transformation initiatives

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.


Remote Work :

Yes


Employment Type :

Full-time


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Who We AreBurwood Group is not your average technology consulting firm. We are an innovative, culture-driven, industry leader and we are growing our team by leaps and bounds. Founded in 1997 in Chicago (and still headquartered here), we've grown to be a 200+ employee firm with people ... View more

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