Project Manager

Project Manager II

Pay Range: $60/hr to $65/hr

Location: North Chicago, IL 60064

Work Type: Hybrid

Contract Duration: 06 Months, Possible Extension

Job Summary:

The Project Manager II will lead a department reorganization initiative from planning through implementation and closeout. The role will coordinate multiple cross functional workstreams and ensure alignment with overall business objectives, milestones, deliverables, and timelines. The Project Manager will partner with department leadership and workstream leads to manage project plans, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and resources. This position requires strong organizational skills, effective communication, and the ability to motivate and influence stakeholders without direct management authority. The role will also support organizational readiness by documenting and communicating changes to roles, responsibilities, processes, and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the department reorganization project from planning through implementation and closeout.
• Create and maintain an integrated project plan with clear milestones, deliverables, owners, and timelines.
• Coordinate multiple workstreams and ensure activities remain aligned with overall project objectives.
• Track project progress, actions, decisions, risks, issues, and cross workstream dependencies.
• Facilitate project meetings, workstream reviews, and leadership decision making sessions.
• Prepare clear and timely status updates, dashboards, and recommendations for leadership.
• Partner with stakeholders to resolve issues, manage changes, and address resource or timing concerns.
• Support organizational readiness by documenting and communicating changes to roles, responsibilities, processes, and ways of working.
• Maintain project documentation and protect confidential organizational and personnel information.
• Capture lessons learned and transition ongoing responsibilities to appropriate owners.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of overall program or project management experience.
• Experience supporting cross functional business initiatives.
• Experience managing project plans, workstreams, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Strong organizational, problem solving, communication, and time management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in an environment with changing business needs.
• Ability to influence and coordinate stakeholders without direct management authority.
• Experience preparing and communicating project updates to leadership.
• Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with organizational transformation, department redesign, operating model implementation, or change management.
• PMP certification.
• Experience with Smartsheet.
• Experience with MS Teams and MS Office.
• Experience working in a large, complex, or matrixed organization.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - AS Applicable