CompassX Group
Manager - Project Management & Business Transformation
Irvine, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$160kDetected 64 days ago
Project ManagementStrategic CommunicationsERPLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking
About the role
- This is your core. - Consulting Background: Experience in a consulting or professional services context.
- PMP or equivalent experience welcomed. - Stakeholder Presence: Comfortable presenting to senior client leadership and operating in complex organizational environments.
Responsibilities
- Own Program Delivery: Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technology implementation programs - scope, schedule, budget, risk, and stakeholder alignment across the full lifecycle.
- Drive Cross-Functional Coordination: Keep delivery teams - engineers, architects, designers, business stakeholders - aligned, unblocked, and moving. Surface issues early and resolve them before they become escalations.
- Manage Senior Stakeholders: Build and maintain trusted relationships with client leadership. Communicate program status clearly, navigate organizational dynamics, and earn standing to push back when needed.
- Build and Run the PMO: Stand up project infrastructure: governance cadences, RAID logs, status reporting, decision logs, and change control processes that actually get used.
- Leverage AI for Delivery: Use AI tools to improve program reporting, risk synthesis, meeting follow-up, and stakeholder communications - and help clients build AI-enabled delivery practices.
- Stakeholder Presence: Comfortable presenting to senior client leadership and operating in complex organizational environments. You build trust without needing a title to do it.
- Secondary Skill: A complementary capability that strengthens your delivery work: business analysis, process design, change management, data literacy, or technical fluency in the platforms you manage.
- Drive Cross-Functional Coordination: Keep delivery teams - engineers, architects, designers, business stakeholders - aligned, unblocked, and moving.
- Manage Senior Stakeholders: Build and maintain trusted relationships with client leadership.
- You build trust without needing a title to do it.
Requirements
- Consulting Background: Experience in a consulting or professional services context.
- You know how to onboard quickly, establish credibility, and operate without a lot of hand-holding.
Skills
- CompassX is a boutique business and technology consulting firm.
- At CompassX, PMs aren't coordinators.
- The work spans digital transformation, data platform rollouts, enterprise system implementations, and AI-enabled modernization programs.
- What You'll Bring
Compensation
- $130k-$160k
Company info
- As part of a smaller firm, they see the impact of their work, have an identity, and know their voice matters.
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