Senior Project Manager – Consultant

Role Overview

• Lead end-to-end project management for complex, multi-workstream engagements including scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issue management
• Develop, maintain, and execute detailed MS Project plans with dependencies, resource loading, and elaborated tasks; apply hybrid Agile/Waterfall approaches appropriate to the engagement context
• Drive clarity and alignment when project conditions are ambiguous, off-track, or politically complex, including developing recovery plans and realignment strategies
• Facilitate project status reporting, executive briefings, and governance checkpoints
• Deliver status updates and executive reporting in visually compelling formats that tell the right story for the right audience
• Identify and proactively manage project risks and dependencies across interconnected workstreams before they become fire drills
• Use AI tools to analyze project data across workstreams, identifying schedule risks, resource conflicts, dependency chains, and early-warning patterns that inform proactive decision-making
• Use AI to rapidly produce executive-ready deliverables: status reports, risk assessments, decision briefs, and governance presentations at a quality and speed that traditional approaches can’t match
• Apply AI to synthesize information from multiple sources: meeting notes, vendor updates, technical documentation, stakeholder feedback, into clear, consolidated views that drive alignment
• Use AI to automate repetitive PM work: status aggregation, action item tracking, schedule variance analysis, and reporting workflows, freeing capacity for the strategic and political work that determines project outcomes
• Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools that improve project delivery, and share innovations with the Liberum team to raise the collective capability
• Support configuration, testing, and validation activities including UAT planning and execution. You understand the technical work well enough to spot problems, not just track timelines
• Coordinate across vendor, state agency, and internal Liberum team members to ensure integrated delivery across all workstreams
• Engage with system integrators and technical teams as a credible counterpart who understands the substance of what’s being built, not just the project mechanics
• Manage relationships with executive sponsors, steering committees, and cross-functional stakeholders across state agency environments
• Engage and build foundational relationships with customers, project sponsors, vendors, and external stakeholders
• Proactively communicate project progress, risks, and value delivered to client stakeholders, ensuring visibility into team contributions throughout the engagement
• Coach and mentor client-side staff to build internal PM capability that outlasts the engagement
• Collaborate with OCM, training, and communications teams to ensure project management outputs support adoption and readiness activities
• Identify opportunities to create additional client value throughout the engagement lifecycle

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience
• 8+ years of project management experience with demonstrated senior-level performance, not just years of service, but increasing scope, complexity, and accountability you can walk us through
• Direct experience supporting or delivering at least one major ERP implementation (Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects in highly regulated or politically sensitive environments, where decisions happen in hallways and governance structures don’t tell the full story
• Experience facilitating executive-level stakeholder engagement, including steering committees and sponsor briefings
• Experience conducting business interviews and leading client workshops at both operational and leadership levels
• Active, daily use of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or equivalent) integrated into your project management workflow, not occasional experimentation, but a core part of how you deliver. You should be able to walk us through specific examples of how AI has improved your project outcomes, delivery speed, or analytical depth.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI for project analysis, risk identification, status synthesis, deliverable creation, and reporting in a professional consulting context
• Comfort prompting and directing AI tools effectively. You understand how to get high-quality, contextually appropriate outputs and you know when AI output needs human judgment applied
• Intellectual curiosity and initiative around emerging AI capabilities. Proactively experiment with new tools and bring innovations to your team rather than waiting for someone else to figure it out
• Strong writing skills: the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise deliverables for both technical audiences and executive stakeholders
• Hybrid methodology fluency: ability to blend Agile and Waterfall approaches pragmatically based on what the project and client actually need
• Proficiency in MS Project or equivalent scheduling tools, including dependency mapping and resource-loaded plans
• Professional courage to deliver difficult findings and recommendations with data, grace, and actionable solutions
• Proven ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively within a remote or hybrid team environment
• Exceptional client relationship management skills
• PMP certification or equivalent project management credential preferred
• Agile certification (CSM, SAFe, or equivalent)

Tech Stack

• ERP
• Oracle
• PMP

Benefits

• You’ll work alongside people who are as good at this as you are, a team where excellence is the baseline, not the exception
• The work is real: complex, politically nuanced, enterprise-scale transformations that actually matter to the State of Washington
• We’re building an AI-forward practice. You’ll be part of a team that’s redefining how project management consulting is done, not just doing it faster with the same old tools
• Comprehensive benefits: full medical, dental, life, and short-term disability coverage, plus 401k with 4% match (no vesting period)
• Generous PTO: 15 days (0–5 years) or 20 days (5+ years), plus 9 paid holidays and WA state sick leave accrual
• Bonus Leave program for employees who go above and beyond