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Cybersecurity Project Manager

HCM Staffing and Consulting
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 4/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/3/2025

Job Details

Project Overview:

We are looking for a Project Manager who will be assigned to one or more large book of cybersecurity projects that require project management best-practices and rigor to execute and successfully deliver on time and on budget.

Contractor's Role:

  • Drive hard-working global teams consisting of employees and onshore/offshore consultants from multiple vendors.
  • Manage projects with teams that consist of technology engineers, solution architects, business analysts, scrum masters, and application owners.
  • Partner with key business and technology stakeholders in the delivery of critical technology initiatives to meet our strategic goals.
  • Responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of Infosec projects.
  • Proactively identifies and mitigates risks that impact Infosec projects.
  • Change agent for project management best-practices.

Qualifications:

  • 10 years of overall experience with at least 5 years of demonstrated track record of leading and managing high visibility business and technology projects.
  • Demonstrated experience of working in matrixed organization to drive delivery and change.
  • Proficiency in Project Planning tools such as ADO Boards/Kanban, PowerPoint, and Excel. Strong familiarity with PowerBI, MS Forms, and Power Automate.
  • Bachelor s Degree required, PMP or Agile certification is a plus.

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Experience in Cybersecurity, Regulatory, or Audit-related projects with requisite understanding of terminology, expectations, and sensitivity of information.
  • Effective communicator able to articulate ideas and information verbally and in writing; uses proper grammar and spelling in all written deliverables.
  • Proactive takes initiative at suggesting process improvements and anticipates the needs of the Program and Project Managers they support.
  • Organized able to handle multiple simultaneous work deliverables and prioritize them accordingly.
  • Analytical able to assemble data and analyze patterns, trends and draw conclusions and recommendations; rely on data to guide decisions; have ability to perform data analysis on one's own to guide team forward.
  • Detail oriented ensures accuracy with all deliverables.
  • Thorough able to follow and establish processes, and identify critical steps and actions
  • Intellectually Curious ask questions to seek deeper understanding of the subject matter; do independent research to learn more about topics related to the work.
  • Deep project management expertise with ability to structure complex cross-functional initiatives to enable clarity, completeness, and speed of execution.
  • Dynamic relationship building and partnership skills; a strong collaborator with experience leading initiatives across multiple groups and stakeholders.
  • Empower the team to make decisions. Emphasis on team collaboration and sharing of ideas.
  • Appreciate team efforts often and publicly.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

  • Manages execution of complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.
  • Leads cross-functional teams to drive disciplined execution of strategic projects from initiation to completion.
  • Engages with leaders at different levels of the organization to define project objectives, build project plans with clear milestones, communicate progress, and drive consensus.
  • Simplify complex issues and identify creative solutions to drive to rapid issue resolution.
  • Anticipate project risks and escalate in a timely manner to drive decisions and/or course correction.
  • Displays a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
  • Communicate project roadmap in terms meaningful to both business and technology organizations to influence, educate and support the implementation of key business, digital and automation capabilities.
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