Senior Project Manager

VARITE • Atlanta, GA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

VARITE is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a hybrid role in Atlanta, Georgia. The role is a three-month contract-to-hire opportunity intended to convert to full-time employment with the client; candidates must be seeking a permanent position. The role reports to the Manager, Program & Strategy Management, Global Security. The project manager will lead complex, high-visibility initiatives across the Global Security Division portfolio, including audits, regulatory requirements, risk assessments, and physical security initiatives.

The Senior Project Manager will guide initiatives from concept and business case development through funding approval, planning, execution, governance, operational transition, closeout, and benefits measurement. The role requires bringing structure to ambiguity, enabling executive decisions, and driving accountable delivery across multiple workstreams, business functions, technologies, and external partners. Projects may involve significant budgets, competing priorities, and executive visibility.

The position is hybrid, with onsite work at the client's Atlanta office four days per week. The contract pay range is $78.00–$83.33 per hour on W-2. The stated conversion salary band is $135,000–$150,000, with a target annual bonus of $15,000–$20,000.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience leading large, complex, cross-functional projects or initiatives in global environments.
• Hands-on security experience in at least one domain, such as cybersecurity, identity and access management, cloud, or SaaS.
• Experience supporting complex, executive-facing projects with significant business, technology, risk, or operational impact.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple concurrent projects and interconnected workstreams.
• Experience developing business cases, funding requests, cost estimates, benefits measures, and executive presentations.
• Experience creating project budget estimates and tracking project spend against budget.
• Strong experience with project governance, reporting, dependency management, RAID tracking, and effort tracking against approved estimates.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and facilitate executive decisions using clear options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations.
• Experience managing vendor relationships, third-party delivery, and enterprise technology implementations.
• Ability to make accountable delivery decisions, including escalation, scope tradeoffs, reprioritization, pausing or stopping work, and resetting expectations.
• Advanced proficiency with ServiceNow, PowerPoint, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot, and related enterprise tools.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to support planning, analysis, reporting, and decision-making.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including the ability to translate complexity into clear, actionable insights.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving structure, decisions, and execution in complex environments.
• Strategic, initiative-taking, adaptable problem-solving skills and sound judgment.
• Clear and transparent communication skills across organizational levels.
• Collaborative leadership that builds trust while maintaining accountability and delivery discipline.
• Strong organization, prioritization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
• Candidates must be seeking a permanent position; contract-only candidates will not be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading technology, cybersecurity, audit, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience delivering enterprise platform implementations and large-scale technology deployments involving multiple integrations and operational stakeholders.
• 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.
• Experience supporting portfolio management, strategic planning, demand management, and investment governance processes.
• PMP, PgMP, SAFe, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification or experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex initiatives involving interconnected workstreams, teams, stakeholders, and external partners.
• Define project objectives, success criteria, roadmaps, milestones, and measurable business outcomes; establish governance and decision-making processes.
• Create alignment and clarity amid evolving priorities, requirements, and organizational dependencies.
• Develop business cases, funding requests, executive presentations, cost estimates, and benefits analyses.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, delivery timelines, work breakdown structures, critical paths, dependencies, and implementation plans.
• Lead delivery from inception through implementation, closeout, operational transition, and value realization.
• Manage project scope, schedule, quality, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, interlocks, and change activities.
• Track internal hours, vendor effort, actual effort, and project spend against approved estimates, budgets, and allocations.
• Identify schedule variances, resource constraints, risks, and issues; facilitate mitigation, corrective action, escalation, and course corrections.
• Coordinate internal teams, external partners, and stakeholders to align on deliverables, timelines, and commitments.
• Maintain project documentation, RAID logs, action items, decisions, accomplishments, upcoming deliverables, and status updates.
• Prepare executive-ready presentations, status reports, dashboards, and strategic updates; facilitate steering committees, governance forums, leadership reviews, and decision-making meetings.
• Provide stakeholders visibility into project health, progress, financials, dependencies, decisions, and expected outcomes.
• Support vendor evaluation, selection, and implementation planning; manage vendor performance, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.
• Ensure third-party delivery aligns with strategic objectives, enterprise standards, risk requirements, and governance processes.
• Use AI-enabled tools to support planning, estimation, analysis, reporting, risk identification, and decision-making, ensuring responsible use under enterprise policies and data-protection requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, governance, and reporting through automation and advanced tools.
• Define and track KPIs, risk-reduction measures, business outcomes, and value-realization metrics.
• Lead formal project closeout, including delivery validation, financial reconciliation, documentation, lessons learned, and post-implementation reviews.
• Build trusted partnerships across distributed and cross-functional teams; promote project-management standards, knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, accountability, transparency, and results-oriented execution.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible employees.
• Participation in a company-sponsored retirement savings plan.
• Legal service plans providing access to attorneys for legal advice and representation.
• Target annual bonus of $15,000–$20,000 upon conversion, as stated in the posting.
• Potential eligibility for an employee referral bonus.

What This Job Offers

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