Job Summary:
CCS is a leading technology consulting firm providing best in class solutions to our clients for over 45 years. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading complex, cross-functional projects and supporting the integration of acquired organizations into the enterprise PMO framework.
Responsibilities:
• Lead full project lifecycle: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control, and closure for complex client-facing, internal, and acquisition integration projects.
• Support acquisition integration activities from a PMO and project delivery perspective, including assessment of current-state processes, tools, documentation standards, reporting practices, governance models, and financial controls.
• Partner with PMO leadership to compare acquired company delivery practices against the enterprise PMO framework and identify gaps, risks, redundancies, and opportunities for standardization.
• Develop integration roadmaps, transition plans, project plans, RAID logs, decision logs, and action trackers to support migration of acquired teams, projects, and reporting structures into the enterprise PMO model.
• Facilitate cross-functional integration workshops with stakeholders from both organizations, including project delivery, engineering, managed services, finance, sales, operations, and leadership.
• Assist in embedding acquired teams into standard project lifecycle practices, including kickoff, planning, risk management, change control, financial tracking, accruals, invoicing, status reporting, and project closeout.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for both internal and client stakeholders, while maintaining executive-level visibility into progress, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
• Maintain and report on project scope, schedule, budget, issues, risks, assumptions, dependencies, resource plans, and mitigation strategies.
• Assign and manage resources to ensure projects are delivered within contractual obligations, operational expectations, and profit targets.
• Track and manage resource utilization and project financials to ensure alignment with contractual obligations, billing milestones, accruals, margin targets, and delivery forecasts.
• Facilitate client and internal meetings, including kickoff, status, risk reviews, escalation sessions, integration working sessions, and close-out reviews.
• Develop and manage detailed project documentation, including project plans, change orders, status reports, dashboards, transition plans, and executive summaries.
• Ensure data accuracy and compliance across project management systems, reporting tools, time tracking, financial systems, and PMO dashboards.
• Drive timely issue escalation and resolution following project governance protocols, with clear documentation of ownership, decisions, and next steps.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of monthly project accruals in coordination with the finance team.
• Track invoicing milestones and ensure timely billing in accordance with the SOW and project delivery schedule.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying and implementing process changes, automation tools, resource models, templates, or governance enhancements that reduce delivery cycle time, improve reporting consistency, or increase profitability.
• Contribute to PMO maturity by improving standards, templates, processes, reporting cadence, project controls, lessons learned, and financial governance.
• Mentor or guide project managers, coordinators, and delivery stakeholders on PMO standards, project controls, communication practices, and client delivery expectations.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience managing complex IT infrastructure and enterprise technology projects, including cloud services, network modernization, security initiatives, and system consolidations across diverse environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives in matrixed organizations with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven ability to learn and compare differing business processes, delivery models, tools, reporting structures, and governance practices, then translate findings into actionable integration plans.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
• Experience translating complex operational or technical environments into actionable project plans, governance routines, and executive-level reporting.
• Ability to mentor or guide project managers, coordinators, and delivery stakeholders on PMO standards and best practices.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing project budgets, profitability, resource utilization, billing milestones, accruals, invoicing triggers, and contract budget burndown.
• Proficient in project scheduling, financial tracking, and collaboration tools.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, documentation, and presentation skills, with experience communicating to client stakeholders, internal leadership, and technical delivery teams.
• Experience in change management, stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, issue escalation, and decision tracking, with a strong ability to align technical and operational teams toward shared objectives.
• Ability to operate independently, manage ambiguity, bring structure to undefined situations, and maintain momentum in complex or evolving business environments.
Preferred:
• Prior experience supporting acquisitions, post-merger integration, PMO standardization, operational integration, business transformation, process harmonization, or enterprise change management strongly preferred.
• PMP certification preferred or in progress.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Company:
CCS is a premier provider of technology solutions and services to organizations throughout the US. Founded in 1979, the company is headquartered in Hauppauge, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.