Agile Project Manager

GP Strategies Corporation is one of the world's leading talent transformation providers, helping organizations achieve meaningful change through innovative learning and development solutions. The Agile Project Manager will execute the end-to-end strategy for large-scale internal events, manage multiple projects, and apply Agile methodologies to ensure high-quality event execution while driving collaboration among various stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Execute on the end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of large-scale internal events
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timelines, resources, spend and dependencies are clearly tracked and surfaced to internal leaders—supporting operational excellence, risk mitigation, and strategic alignment
• Apply Agile ways of working adapting relevant agile methodologies to event planning and delivery, including sprint-based planning, RAID logs, backlog prioritization, iterative refinement, and continuous feedback loops
• Drive cross-functional and cross-workstream collaboration, managing deliverables with project teams, external vendors, and internal stakeholders to create seamless, high‑quality event execution that builds on the existing ecosystem
• Ensure compliance with company policies, safety protocols, accessibility standards, and audience experience expectations
• Maintain internal tracking systems—Teams files, chats, and communications—to ensure consistent updates and proper version management
• Analyze performance metrics and insights from events and sprints, providing data-driven recommendations that strengthen future experiences and enable continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Execute on the end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of large-scale internal events
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timelines, resources, spend and dependencies are clearly tracked and surfaced to internal leaders—supporting operational excellence, risk mitigation, and strategic alignment
• Apply Agile ways of working adapting relevant agile methodologies to event planning and delivery, including sprint-based planning, RAID logs, backlog prioritization, iterative refinement, and continuous feedback loops
• Drive cross-functional and cross-workstream collaboration, managing deliverables with project teams, external vendors, and internal stakeholders to create seamless, high‑quality event execution that builds on the existing ecosystem
• Ensure compliance with company policies, safety protocols, accessibility standards, and audience experience expectations
• Maintain internal tracking systems—Teams files, chats, and communications—to ensure consistent updates and proper version management
• Analyze performance metrics and insights from events and sprints, providing data-driven recommendations that strengthen future experiences and enable continuous improvement
• Project planning & scoping – defining objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success measures
• Working proficiency in Agile methodologies (e.g., RAID logs, sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog management) with the ability to flex practices, prioritize outcomes, and deliver using the approach that best meets customer needs
• Exceptional verbal and written communication, strategic storytelling, relationship-building, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Strong problem‑solving, systems-thinking, and decision-making capabilities with a high attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and navigate complexity with clarity
• Demonstrated leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate with partners, facilitate workstreams, and provide constructive performance feedback
• Understanding of the full event lifecycle—from strategy and design through planning, production, delivery, and post‑event analysis—to partner effectively with leads and ensure sprints and workstreams deliver experiences that are purpose‑built, high‑quality, compliant, and aligned to organizational goals