Senior Project Manager / Business Analyst - Consultant
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LiberumPublic Sector
United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary140000 - 160000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AgileOracleSAPWorkday
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of combined experience in project management and business analysis roles with demonstrated senior-level performance
- Direct experience supporting or delivering at least one major ERP implementation (Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or equivalent)
- Functional knowledge of one or more Workday modules (HCM, Finance, Payroll, etc.) preferred, with hands-on configuration or testing experience ideal
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects in highly regulated or politically sensitive environments
- Experience facilitating executive-level stakeholder engagement, including steering committees and sponsor briefings
- Proficiency in developing business process documentation, requirements artifacts, and gap analysis deliverables
- 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 PM and BA workflow
- Demonstrated ability to use AI for document synthesis, requirements analysis, data pattern recognition, risk identification, and deliverable creation in a professional consulting context
- Comfort prompting and directing AI tools effectively
- Intellectual curiosity and initiative around emerging AI capabilities
- Strong writing skills: the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise deliverables
- Hybrid methodology fluency: ability to blend Agile and Waterfall approaches pragmatically
- 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
- PMI-PBA or CBAP certification a plus
Responsibilities
- 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
- Identify and proactively manage project risks and dependencies across interconnected workstreams
- Elicit, document, and validate business and functional requirements through structured interviews, workshops, and process observation
- Develop and maintain business process flow diagrams, gap analyses, use cases, and other analytical artifacts
- Assess current state and future state business processes to identify impacts, risks, and opportunities
- Translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable specifications for technical teams and system integrators
- Support configuration, testing, and validation activities related to ERP/Workday implementation workstreams, including UAT planning and execution
- Use AI tools to rapidly synthesize meeting notes, interview transcripts, and workshop outputs into structured requirements documents, gap analyses, and decision frameworks
- Use AI for project data analysis: identifying risk patterns, surfacing schedule dependencies, forecasting resource conflicts, and generating early-warning indicators
- Use AI to accelerate the creation of executive-ready deliverables: status reports, briefing decks, business cases, and analytical artifacts
- Use AI as an analytical partner to pressure-test requirements, validate business process logic, identify specification gaps, and stress-test assumptions
- Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools and techniques and share innovations with the Liberum team
- 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
- Coordinate across vendor, state agency, and internal Liberum team members to ensure integrated delivery
- Proactively communicate project progress, risks, and value delivered to client stakeholders
- Coach and mentor client-side staff to build internal PM and BA capability where applicable
- Collaborate with OCM, training, and communications teams to ensure PM and BA outputs support adoption and readiness activities
- Identify opportunities to create additional client value throughout the engagement lifecycle
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