ITS Project Manager

Aventia • Madison, NJ

1d • $120,000 - $155,000

About The Position

BEM Systems, an Aventia Company, is seeking a disciplined, client-focused Senior Project Manager to lead complex enterprise software implementations and upgrades for government clients. BEM delivers SaaS, AI-enabled, GIS-integrated, and mobile solutions to transportation departments, transit agencies, and government organizations. Its PAECETrak platform supports right-of-way, utilities, permitting, infrastructure management, and related business processes through secure, configurable cloud-based applications.

The role is accountable for project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, governance, organizational change, stakeholder communication, and transition to operations. The successful candidate will manage multiple concurrent implementations and upgrades, including projects valued at $1M–$5M, and apply strong scope management, SaaS and fixed-price project controls, and AI tools to improve delivery efficiency.

Success means delivering projects with clear governance, reliable forecasts, disciplined scope control, timely escalation, transparent client communications, and contractual milestones and approvals completed as planned. The project manager will actively manage financial performance and turn implementation lessons into repeatable improvements, using AI-assisted workflows without compromising security, confidentiality, or human accountability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering, information systems, organizational management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of project management experience leading enterprise software, SaaS, web, or systems implementations.
• Demonstrated success managing complex implementation projects valued at $1M–$5M from initiation through deployment, stabilization, acceptance, and support transition.
• Advanced scope management skills, including requirements baselining, traceability, impact assessment, statement-of-work alignment, change control, and scope-creep prevention.
• Experience managing fixed-price projects, budgets, forecasts, margins, milestone invoicing, risks, and contract deliverables.
• Experience leading training, adoption, and organizational change for enterprise implementations.
• Demonstrated experience leading onsite, remote, and offshore software development and implementation teams across multiple time zones.
• Strong multi-project management capabilities, including prioritization, resource coordination, dependency management, schedule recovery, and executive reporting.
• Advanced stakeholder management skills, with experience aligning executives, client teams, technical teams, subcontractors, and other delivery partners.
• Proficiency with AI-enabled productivity and project management tools.
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum and traditional project management methods.
• Excellent client-facing, executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and organizational skills.
• PMP certification.

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing enterprise solutions for state, county, city, transportation, transit, infrastructure, right-of-way, property, permitting, utilities, or asset-management organizations.
• Government contracting, procurement, formal acceptance processes, and change-order negotiations experience.
• Experience with cloud-hosted SaaS platforms, Azure environments, APIs, system integrations, GIS/Esri, data migration, analytics, and mobile applications.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, or equivalent project and collaboration platforms.
• Program management, PMO development, portfolio reporting, or mentoring other project managers experience.
• PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, or comparable Agile certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent enterprise software implementations and upgrades from kickoff through acceptance and transition to support.
• Own project plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, resources, milestones, dependencies, and delivery reporting.
• Maintain requirements traceability; enforce statements of work and change control to prevent scope creep; and manage margin and invoicing.
• Serve as the primary client contact and lead status meetings, working sessions, steering committees, demonstrations, and executive communications.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across analysis, configuration, development, integrations, migration, testing, training, deployment, and support.
• Manage risks, issues, decisions, actions, acceptance, document control, and delivery quality; escalate concerns and drive corrective action.
• Lead readiness, testing, training, go-live, stabilization, stakeholder communications, adoption, and organizational change activities.
• Use approved AI and automation tools to improve planning, reporting, meeting follow-up, risk analysis, documentation, and delivery efficiency, with appropriate human review and security controls.
• Capture lessons learned and improve delivery methods, templates, estimates, metrics, and portfolio visibility.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Eligibility for performance-based compensation, subject to applicable plan terms and company policies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior