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Project Manager

Tekwissen

Overview:


TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a British-owned education publishing and assessment services company that serves schools, corporations, and students directly. The company owns several educational media brands, including Addison-Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, Longman, Scott Foresman, and others.


Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Hoboken, NJ, 07030

Duration: 3 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote

Shift Timings: Monday To Friday From 08:00 AM To 05:00 PM

Job Description:

  • Project Manager supporting the Enterprise Content & Training (ECT) organization.
  • Responsible for conducting project and contract audits, performing forensic analysis of existing projects, and identifying discrepancies in systems and processes.
  • Review contract status using internal systems, including SharePoint and Oracle-based contract tracking tools (PDH).
  • Investigate active, inactive, and cancelled contracts and coordinate appropriate follow-up actions, including cancellation notifications when necessary.
  • Develop, improve, and maintain project tracking processes and reporting structures.
  • Drive organization, documentation, and process consistency across multiple ongoing initiatives.
  • Partner cross-functionally with teams including royalties, operations, content, and other business stakeholders.
  • Support project visibility, status tracking, and process governance across the organization.
  • Supporting the Enterprise Content & Training (ECT) division.
  • ECT produces and manages professional technical learning content, including books, video courses, live training, certification programs, cybersecurity training, networking content, and AI learning solutions.
  • Well-known content brands include Cisco Press, Adobe Press, and Prentice Hall.
  • Team is currently understaffed, need additional bandwidth (recent employee departure, mat leave, and sabbatical)
  • Existing projects and tracking processes require clean-up and greater operational rigor.
  • Need someone who can quickly assess the current state of projects and contracts, identify issues, ask critical questions, and establish stronger tracking and accountability mechanisms.
  • Initial engagement is 3 months, with strong potential for extension based on business needs and workload.
Work Environment:
  • Review project and contract data across SharePoint and internal systems.
  • Conduct forensic analysis of project statuses, contract activity, and process gaps.
  • Create and maintain project trackers, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to gather information and resolve discrepancies, document findings and recommend corrective actions.
  • Support operational processes that improve organization and project execution.
  • Core team consists of approximately 4 team members, additional support resources located in India.
  • Highly collaborative, cross-functional environment.
Must Haves:
  • Team values initiative, transparency, organization, and strong communication.
  • Strong experience creating and maintaining project tracking processes.
  • Advanced organizational and prioritization skills.
  • Experience working with SharePoint.
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
  • Experience with Smartsheet or similar project tracking tools.
  • Ability to perform detailed analysis and identify process, data, or project discrepancies.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Comfortable working independently and navigating ambiguity.
  • Opportunity to make an immediate and visible impact on a team needing operational structure and support.
  • Significant autonomy and ownership over process creation and project tracking improvements.
  • Exposure to technical publishing, professional learning, AI, cybersecurity, and certification content businesses.
  • Opportunity to work across multiple functions and gain broad business exposure.
Candidate Requirements:
  • Minimum of 2 years as a Project Manager/project management experience, ideally within Publishing, or Tech (more years of experience preferred)
  • PMP Certification not required, but a plus.
  • Degree not required, but a plus (years of experience more important)
  • Highly organized and detail-oriented, this is the most key.
  • Transparent communicator who proactively raises questions and risks.
  • Demonstrated ability to bring structure to unclear or disorganized environments.
  • Proven success managing multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Performance: highly organized, transparent. If they don't know something, tell the manager.
  • If they are collaborative, will work with the team and get to know their systems and can work with them to get do all that. Organization is so key.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
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