Work Location: 100% On-site in Columbia SC, Monday - Friday
Enterprise Project Manager - Consultant
Key duties and Responsibilities
- Step into an active, challenged project and quickly gain situational awareness to identify critical issues, risks, and paths to resolution.
- Implement and reinforce rigorous program management practices across planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting.
- Act as a key program interface for the agency’s technical, OCM, and functional teams, facilitating technical and enterprise system requirements are met.
- Collaborate closely with an external agency that leads the overall program and manages the contracted system integrator.
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups, including vendors, agency business teams, ERP specialists, and executive sponsors.
- Provide structure and clarity in areas such as risk management, issue resolution, scope control, and milestone accountability.
Required Skills
- Proven experience as a program manager for large-scale, enterprise it implementations — ideally including cloud-based procurement or ERP- Related systems.
- Experience in projects involving procurement systems or ERP platforms (e.g., oracle, sap, workday).
- Familiarity with procurement reform or modernization efforts.
Preferred Skill
- Prior experience as a program manager for large scale state government projects highly desired
- Education Requirement
- PMP CERTIFICATION
- BACHELOR'S DEGREE OR 6-8 YEARS OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE