Senior Project Manager
Oak Brook, IL - USA
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
About Company
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