Sr Project Manager - Pursuit Management

Maximus is hiring a Senior Project Manager to lead and coordinate strategic opportunities through the full pursuit lifecycle. The role manages cross-functional teams, project plans, governance routines, milestones, risks, action items, and executive reporting while using approved AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency and visibility.

Responsibilities:

• Manage opportunities across the full pursuit lifecycle and lead cross-functional project teams through readiness milestones
• Own integrated project plans, governance routines, milestone schedules, risk registers, action logs, and executive status reporting
• Coordinate across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, proposal, sales, and internal stakeholders to maintain progress against pursuit timelines
• Monitor schedule health, milestone readiness, unresolved actions, decision delays, and risk exposure across assigned opportunities
• Escalate risks, issues, and decision needs with clear impacts, owners, timing, and recommended next steps
• Promote practical use of approved AI-enabled tools to improve workflow efficiency, automate routine coordination tasks, and strengthen visibility into action status, milestones, and risks
• Run after-action reviews and translate lessons learned into pursuit management, governance, and tracking improvements

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• • Specialized experience needed: hands-on management of complex pursuits, proposals, implementations, or other deadline-driven projects with multiple workstreams, dependencies, governance routines, and executive visibility
• • Candidates should be advanced users of integrated project plans, milestone schedules, readiness trackers, RAID logs, action registers, decision logs, and executive status reporting
• • Must have strong cross-functional coordination experience across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, sales, proposal, SMEs, and leadership stakeholders
• • Must communicate clearly, escalate early, and use approved AI-enabled tools to streamline notes, action tracking, reporting, and risk visibility
• • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail skills needed
• This position is fully remote and will require a home office
• Reliable high-speed internet service
• Minimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivity
• Minimum 5 Mpbs upload speeds