Project Manager

VARITE • Atlanta, GA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

VARITE is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support delivery of cross-functional initiatives for a global investment management firm. The role supports projects across the Global Security Division portfolio, including audits, regulatory requirements, risk assessments, and physical security initiatives. Projects may span multiple teams, business functions, technologies, and external partners, and involve detailed timelines, interdependent deliverables, and competing priorities.

The Project Manager supports projects from planning and execution through governance, operational transition, and closeout. The role builds and maintains project plans and timelines, tracks internal hours and vendor effort against estimates, manages risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, and provides clear visibility to project teams and stakeholders. Each Project Manager owns their projects, with team members supporting one another as needed. The position reports to the Manager, Program & Strategy Management, Global Security.

This is a three-month contract-to-hire opportunity based in Atlanta, Georgia, with a hybrid arrangement requiring four days per week in the office. The contract pay rate is $60.00–$66.66 per hour on W-2. The stated conversion salary band is $105,000–$120,000, with a target annual bonus of $10,000–$15,000.

Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, and vision coverage; participation in a company-sponsored retirement savings plan; and legal service plans. A referral bonus may be available if a referred candidate is hired.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of project coordination or project management experience supporting cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting low- to moderate-complexity projects across multiple teams or functions.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, action logs, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Experience tracking actual effort or internal hours against approved estimates and communicating material variances.
• Experience creating project budget estimates and tracking project spend against budget.
• Strong proficiency with project and collaboration tools such as ServiceNow, PowerPoint, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot, and related enterprise tools.
• Experience producing clear status updates, dashboards, meeting notes, action logs, and presentations for project stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI-enabled tools to enhance planning, documentation, analysis, reporting, and communication.
• Strong communication, organization, follow-through, facilitation, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to identify and communicate risks, issues, blockers, dependencies, and decision needs clearly and early.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Experience coordinating with vendors or third-party suppliers to track deliverables, timelines, follow-ups, risks, and dependencies.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills, attention to detail, and ability to clarify expectations, organize work, and follow through on commitments.
• Proactive follow-up mindset and comfort raising risks, issues, blockers, variances, or missing information early.
• Analytical ability to translate project information into clear, actionable updates.
• Adaptability in changing project environments and a collaborative approach that builds trust while supporting accountability and delivery discipline.
• Clear, professional, and transparent written and verbal communication.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting technology, cybersecurity, risk, audit, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting enterprise platform implementations or technology deployments involving multiple stakeholders and operational teams.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, enterprise applications, security operations, identity and access management, data protection, vulnerability or exposure management, and governance projects.
• Exposure to portfolio management, strategic planning, demand management, and investment governance processes.
• CAPM, CSM, SAFe, PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification or experience.

Responsibilities

• Support project initiatives comprising multiple activities, deliverables, stakeholders, and dependencies.
• Help define project objectives, scope, success criteria, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and maintain project routines, documentation, and decision records; clarify alignment when requirements, priorities, assumptions, or dependencies change.
• Coordinate across business, technology, security, legal, compliance, finance, procurement, operations, and external partners as needed.
• Collect and validate estimates, timelines, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and delivery inputs from project teams and stakeholders.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdown structures, critical paths, and implementation timelines.
• Coordinate deliverables, owners, due dates, and commitments across teams; monitor schedule progress and identify variances, constraints, and dependencies.
• Track execution across scope, schedule, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and change activities.
• Identify gaps, blockers, overdue actions, and delivery risks; facilitate mitigation and escalate appropriately.
• Lead project meetings and follow-ups, documenting decisions, action items, owners, and target dates.
• Drive accountability and transparency across internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders; support corrective actions and course corrections.
• Track internal hours and vendor effort against approved estimates and planned allocations; communicate material effort variances, capacity constraints, schedule impacts, and dependency risks.
• Partner with project and functional leads to validate actual effort, remaining estimates, and potential delivery impacts; maintain supporting information for effort reporting.
• Prepare status updates, dashboards, meeting recaps, action summaries, and leadership materials.
• Create and maintain RAID logs; provide visibility into project health, milestones, accomplishments, upcoming deliverables, decisions, effort variances, and items requiring attention.
• Communicate risks, issues, blockers, and decision needs, and support governance forums, project reviews, and decision-making meetings.
• Coordinate vendor activities, deliverables, timelines, follow-ups, risks, and dependencies; monitor third-party commitments and escalate performance or delivery concerns.
• Ensure vendor activities align with project objectives, enterprise standards, risk requirements, and governance processes.
• Use AI-enabled tools to improve project planning, documentation, meeting summaries, action tracking, reporting, analysis, and risk identification.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, governance, and reporting through automation and advanced tooling; use AI in accordance with enterprise policies, confidentiality, data protection, and governance requirements.
• Support tracking of project outcomes, success measures, risk reduction, and expected value.
• Coordinate closeout, including delivery validation, required documentation, lessons learned, transition follow-ups, and appropriate storage of project artifacts and decisions.
• Identify improvements to templates, reporting, documentation, and project delivery routines.
• Build trusted relationships across distributed and cross-functional teams and promote project management standards, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, accountability, transparency, and proactive communication.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees.
• Participation in a company-sponsored retirement savings plan for eligible employees.
• Legal service plans providing access to attorneys for legal advice and representation.
• Potential employee referral bonus if a referred candidate is hired.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed