Project Manager

Project ManagerCTG is seeking to fill a Project Manager position for our client. Location: Dallas, TX – Onsite/Hybrid Remote Duration: 12 months Duties: Lead technology, infrastructure, cloud, application, consulting, and transformation projects through the full lifecycle, from planning and kickoff through transition, acceptance, and closure. Develop integrated delivery plans covering scope, schedule, cost, resources, dependencies, milestones, risks, quality, and acceptance criteria. Own project performance and drive timely decisions and corrective actions across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and customer value. Establish project governance, workstream accountability, decision rights, escalation paths, and communication cadences across cross-functional teams. Manage project budgets, forecasts, resource demand, revenue, expenses, margin, cash flow, and financial assumptions. Monitor actuals, commitments, estimates to complete, estimates at completion, revenue, margin, and utilization; analyze variances and implement corrective actions. Evaluate change requests for scope, schedule, resource, contractual, and financial impact and maintain appropriate documentation and approvals. Select and apply predictive, Agile, or hybrid project management methodologies based on project requirements, risk, and complexity. Maintain project charters, integrated plans, RAID logs, stakeholder and communication plans, change and decision logs, financial baselines, benefits measures, and closure documentation. Lead governance reviews, health checks, retrospectives, lessons learned, and executive status reporting. Manage risks, issues, dependencies, opportunities, and recovery plans with clear ownership, due dates, escalation thresholds, and financial exposure. Serve as the primary point of contact for project status, commitments, decisions, financial performance, risks, and recovery actions. Lead and motivate cross-functional teams, resolve delivery conflicts, coach developing project managers, and promote accountability and collaboration. Coordinate operational readiness, transition, customer acceptance, benefits realization, and formal project closure. Skills: Project management and delivery governance Predictive, Agile, and hybrid methodologies Financial planning, forecasting, and variance analysis Budget, revenue, cost, margin, and cash-flow management Scope, schedule, resource, risk, quality, and change management Contract and statement-of-work interpretation Executive communication and stakeholder management Risk mitigation and project recovery Critical-path and dependency management Earned value and performance measurement Enterprise scheduling, collaboration, financial, resource-management, and reporting tools Negotiation, facilitation, and conflict resolution Experience: 3+ years of progressively responsible project management experience, including complex customer-facing technology or transformation initiatives. Experience as a Project Manager for an enterprise software/SaaS vendor or technology consulting firm. Demonstrated experience managing project financials, including budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, ETC/EAC, revenue, costs, margin, and change economics. Experience establishing and managing scope, schedule, cost, resource, risk, quality, change, and benefits baselines. Experience translating contracts, statements of work, milestones, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria into executable project controls. Experience leading cross-functional, geographically dispersed, multi-workstream, or multi-vendor engagements preferred. Experience in enterprise technology transformation, managed services, cloud, infrastructure, application modernization, or consulting preferred. Experience coaching project managers and improving project management practices preferred. Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field preferred. PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in good standing required. Agile, Scrum, Lean, ITIL, or additional PMI certification preferred. Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.