Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GP Strategies is expanding its U.S. contractor pool for project and program management work supporting content development and technology-enabled projects. The Project Manager – Technology Delivery & Implementation leads projects involving technical complexity, system integration, and evolving requirements, coordinating delivery plans, stakeholders, risks, testing, implementation, financial management, and AI-enabled process improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring alignment to scope, timelines, budget, and client expectations
- Create detailed project plans that integrate both delivery and technical workstreams
- Apply appropriate delivery methodologies based on project needs, including Agile, waterfall, and hybrid approaches, with a working understanding of key Agile processes and practices
- Ensure technical dependencies, constraints, and assumptions are clearly reflected in plans, including by drawing out and validating input from technical leads and stakeholders
- Manage multiple concurrent and interdependent projects effectively
- Operate confidently in environments where requirements may be incomplete, evolving, or ambiguous
- Build clarity and structured plans from high-level or unclear inputs
- Identify gaps in scope, documentation, or ownership, and proactively drive resolution
- Support alignment across interdependent workstreams, teams, and projects
- Work closely with technical teams to ensure delivery approaches, dependencies, and timelines are clearly understood
- Ensure technical documentation, assumptions, and risks are captured and reflected in delivery planning
- Incorporate technical inputs into project plans, client updates, and reporting
- Translate technical concepts, updates, and challenges into clear, structured, and client-friendly communication
- Ensure all stakeholders understand progress, risks, and next steps, regardless of technical background
- Consolidate and structure questions to enable efficient communication with technical teams
- Reduce communication friction through clarity, consistency, and structured updates
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Enable confident client communication on projects involving technical complexity
- Ensure appropriate technical representation is included in client discussions where required
- Support teams in communicating complex topics clearly and consistently
- Establish clear ways of working across Project Management and technical teams
- Define roles, responsibilities, and escalation pathways at project initiation
- Ensure effective use of delivery tools (e.g., Jira) with clear ownership, status, and next steps
- Maintain structured reporting cadence and clear project documentation
- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and blockers proactively
- Translate technical risks into clear business impacts and mitigation plans
- Ensure issues are escalated appropriately and resolved in a timely manner
- Ensure clarity on testing ownership, scope, and timelines
- Coordinate readiness for deployment and implementation activities
- Ensure delivery stages (including testing and deployment) are clearly planned and communicated
- Forecast and manage project costs in line with budgets and resource plans
- Ensure technical delivery considerations are reflected in financial planning and forecasting
- Support invoicing and revenue tracking aligned with delivery progress
- Capture lessons learned relating to technology delivery, communication, and process gaps
- Contribute to improving ways of working between Project Management and technical teams
- Support the evolution of best practices for managing complex and technology-enabled projects
- Leverage GP Strategies approved AI-enabled tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot and other authorised platforms) to support project planning, documentation, communication, and reporting across the project lifecycle
- Improve efficiency by using AI to streamline routine project management activities, including status reporting, meeting summaries, action tracking, and documentation creation
- Enhance the clarity and consistency of stakeholder communication by using AI tools to structure updates, summarise information, and translate complex or technical concepts into clear, accessible language
- Support data-informed decision-making by using approved tools to analyse project data, identify risks, surface trends, and highlight dependencies
- Apply AI tools to help structure ambiguous or incomplete inputs into clear plans, actions, and deliverables
- Contribute to the standardisation and adoption of AI-enabled ways of working within the PMO, including sharing best practices, prompts, and lessons learned
- Ensure all use of AI tools complies with GP Strategies policies on data security, confidentiality, and responsible AI usage
Skills
- Strong project management fundamentals across planning, governance, and delivery
- Proven ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous project environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into clear, actionable language
- Experience managing or supporting projects with technical or system-based components, including an understanding of how delivery phases and dependencies impact project planning and execution
- Strong stakeholder management across cross-functional and distributed teams
- Confidence to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and openly identify where clarification is needed
- Working knowledge of technology delivery environments, tools, and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Jira, system implementations), with the ability to support clear user stories and unambiguous success criteria where needed
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with adaptability, sound judgement, and effective conflict resolution skills
- Ideally contract candidates will carry liability insurance
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