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

Job Title: Project Manager II

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 , paid sick and safe time , hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, paid holidays annually - AS Applicable)