Project Manager

Our client, a leading global healthcare and consulting organization, is seeking an experienced Project Manager, which involves establishing and maintaining project governance, driving integrated planning and tracking, and enabling cross-functional coordination across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams. This is a part-time contractual role supporting a large-scale healthcare transformation program, with responsibility for PMO processes, status reporting, RAID management, and delivery governance across multiple workstreams. The position offers a flexible remote working arrangement with occasional travel for key project milestones.

This is a contractual role through the end of February 2027 for 20 hours per week. There's a requirement of occasional travel to Client's Chicago-based office. Candidates located in the greater-Chicago area preferred.

The Role:

• Establish and maintain project governance, PMO processes, standards, templates, and operating cadence across all program workstreams.
• Manage integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical-path activities; proactively identify and communicate schedule risks.
• Prepare weekly and monthly program status reports, dashboards, executive summaries, and steering committee materials covering progress, risks, issues, decisions, and key metrics.
• Own and maintain Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID) logs; facilitate timely resolution and escalation of critical items.
• Coordinate activities across business, technology, QA, and consulting teams to ensure alignment and timely execution of program deliverables.
• Manage project governance meetings, including preparing agendas, capturing decisions and action items, and driving follow-ups to closure.
• Monitor deliverables and key milestones against the approved plan, identify delivery gaps, and collaborate with Project Managers and workstream leads on corrective actions.
• Maintain project documentation, decision logs, action trackers, governance artifacts, and project repositories to ensure transparency and auditability

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Project Manager or in a PMO/governance role, preferably within large, multi-workstream transformation programs.
• Strong expertise in project governance, integrated planning and tracking, and critical-path management.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare executive-level status reports, dashboards, and steering committee materials.
• Hands-on experience with RAID log management, risk identification, and issue escalation and resolution.
• Solid cross-functional coordination skills, with the ability to align business, technology, QA, and consulting teams.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools, including Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow ticketing systems.
• Excellent documentation, organization, and knowledge management skills, with attention to auditability and transparency.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive meetings, decisions, and action items to closure.
• Ability to work effectively in a part-time (approximately 20 hours per week) remote capacity across Eastern and Central time zones.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to Chicago for quarterly governance sessions or key project milestones such as UAT.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.