Top Senior Project Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead and deliver medium-to-large cross-functional projects, manage the operational rhythm of the business (meetings, OKRs, reporting), drive internal communications and engagement, identify process improvements, manage risks/issues, and partner with stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

Leads overall management and quality oversight for a DLA enterprise testing support task order. Responsibilities include planning, scheduling, staffing, reporting, quality assurance, testing oversight, risk and change management, deliverable review, acquisition lifecycle support, and coordination with the Government COR. The role manages teams supporting enterprise IT, ERP, DoD business systems, test automation, integration, interoperability, and transition activities.

Oversee large, complex task orders, coordinating government stakeholders, technical teams, task order managers, and program leadership. Manage task order performance, schedules, deliverables, communications, and technical solution implementation in accordance with contract requirements. Support the Program Manager in coordinating with contracting officers and customer agency representatives while ensuring performance objectives are achieved.

Manages strategic OneStream implementation engagements, including project planning, budgets, schedules, risks, scope, quality, and client communication. Acts as a trusted advisor across multiple accounts, coordinates internal teams and partners, supports sales opportunities, oversees implementation workstreams, and identifies expansion opportunities. Also contributes to staffing, recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, methodology leadership, and customer retention. The role requires extensive travel, primarily domestic with occasional international travel.

Lead planning, execution, and delivery of large to extra-large projects. Define scope, manage resources, budgets, risks, stakeholders, and quality. Produce status reports and documentation, mentor junior PMs, and ensure projects meet timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

Lead customer projects end-to-end: manage scope, schedules, risks, issues, and status reporting. Coordinate with sponsors, PMO, and stakeholders to keep projects on time and budget using Agile and Waterfall methods.

The Business Systems Analyst/Project Manager collaborates with business stakeholders, manages project lifecycles, identifies IT enhancements, and ensures successful project delivery.

Lead moderate-to-large complex projects and programs, design and manage project plans, mitigate risk, influence stakeholders, drive delivery across cross-functional teams, and coach direct reports to achieve business outcomes.

Lead cross-functional pricing projects for the Global Payments Network: design and scale pricing operating models, manage complex project plans, mitigate risk, influence stakeholders, and coach a team to deliver strategic initiatives.

Lead complex projects from planning and design through construction and closeout, initially focused on data centers. Manage client relationships, budgets, schedules, procurement, contracts, project controls, design reviews, construction coordination, risk mitigation, stakeholder communications, and closeout. Coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, and vendors while supporting business development activities.

Leads medium to enterprise-level projects using Agile Scrum methodology. Responsibilities include defining scope and deliverables, creating project plans, managing budgets and resources, coordinating cross-functional teams, identifying and mitigating risks, communicating with stakeholders, overseeing quality standards, and presenting status reports to leadership.

Oversee multiple engineering and capital projects from conception through commissioning across manufacturing locations. Lead cross-functional teams, manage scope, safety, budgets, forecasts, schedules, risks, vendors, contractors, and stakeholder communications. Ensure compliance with food safety, USDA, FDA, and industry requirements while driving continuous improvement and successful operational handoffs. The role requires approximately 50% travel to manufacturing facilities.

Lead the NIC curriculum modernization, e-learning development, and instructor-led training revision task order. Serve as the Government’s primary point of contact, direct contractor personnel, supervise technical efforts, manage performance, quality, efficiency, and business processes, and address contractual, programmatic, and resource issues. This remote position is contingent on contract award.

Leads delivery of a federal healthcare IT portal across project initiation, requirements, architecture, Agile development, testing, security compliance, deployment, training, and operations transition. Manages scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, contractual deliverables, governance, and stakeholder communications. Coordinates cross-functional teams and supports FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST, Section 508, EPLC, security authorization, and ATO readiness activities for CDC and NIOSH stakeholders.

Manages complex customer projects and programs from initiation through delivery, care, and closure. Responsibilities include planning, change and risk management, contract and financial oversight, quality control, stakeholder communication, customer relationship management, team leadership, operational handoffs, KPI reporting, and identifying opportunities for contract expansion and renewal.

Manage infrastructure and commercial real estate projects from planning through closeout, overseeing budgets, schedules, procurement, quality, risks, resources, documentation, client communications, change management, and project delivery. The role requires regular onsite work, coordination with clients and vendors, bid analysis, progress reporting, and development of mitigation plans to meet project objectives.

Lead end-to-end Workday Financials implementations and optimizations, managing scope, schedule, budgets, integrations, data migrations, testing, cutover, and hypercare. Partner with Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to embed controls, drive change management (communications, training), ensure adoption, and continuously improve financial systems.

Lead operational execution of eDiscovery workflows from intake through production and case closure. Manage collections, processing, hosting, Relativity workspaces, review/analytics, vendor relationships, QA, and billing to ensure efficient, defensible discovery support for litigation teams.

Manage client software implementation projects from initiation through completion, overseeing scope, timelines, resources, risks, team adherence, and client onboarding. Lead cross-functional project teams, monitor progress and ACV recognition metrics, resolve issues, provide leadership updates, mentor junior project managers, and optimize implementation methodologies. The role may require travel for client or team needs.

Lead a diverse team of developers, testers, and GIS professionals supporting a U.S. Coast Guard enterprise system. Manage Agile and traditional project lifecycles, assess and improve team structures, coordinate workstreams, maintain project documentation and tracking systems, manage business process improvements, communicate with stakeholders, deliver status updates, and resolve complex program issues. The role also coordinates Security, QA Automation, DBA, and DevOps teams while supporting delivery across multiple workstreams.

Oversee day-to-day project execution, including technical, contractual, administrative, and financial activities. Supervise personnel, coordinate stakeholders and vendors, manage customer relationships, monitor schedules and deliverables, ensure contractual compliance and quality standards, prepare status reports, and resolve risks and issues. The role supports successful delivery of federal government projects and requires active Secret clearance.

Leads complex, cross-functional Technical Operations projects from concept through launch. Develops project plans, manages timelines, budgets, risks, resources, documentation, and governance, and coordinates stakeholders across R&D, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, finance, regulatory, and commercial teams. The role supports production optimization, technology transfers, compliance initiatives, cost savings, business continuity, product growth, and line extensions while applying Stage Gate, project management, operational excellence, Lean, and Six Sigma practices.

Own and deliver a portfolio of complex innovation and growth initiatives from charter through post-launch review. Lead cross-functional teams, manage scope, resources, schedules, risks, issues, and stakeholder alignment. Govern Stage-Gate and PPM processes, support pipeline prioritization and resource allocation, track go-to-market progression, and drive continuous improvements in project execution and value creation.

Lead day-to-day management of large construction projects including contract administration, scheduling, risk management, procurement, financial reporting, team leadership, stakeholder communication, project close-out, and safety enforcement while supporting business development and recruiting.

Manage airport apron systems projects across the full lifecycle: client leadership, design coordination, field execution, commissioning, and team mentorship. Ensure schedules, budgets, and FAA/ICAO/IATA-compliant layouts; conduct surveys, inspections, simulations, and vendor coordination while traveling to airport sites (~50%).