Project Manager - Government
CDW Corporation · United States
The Project Manager independently manages technology projects or serves as a Project Manager within a broader program with guidance available from more experienced coworkers. Projects are typically low to medium in complexity and risk and may involve mainstream, legacy, or select emerging technologies, a defined solution area, and third-party providers. The Project Manager owns day-to-day project delivery from initiation through closure and works with sales, consultants, clients, subcontractors, and cross-functional delivery teams. The role is accountable for managing project scope, schedule, budget, contractual deliverables, risks, issues, quality, and stakeholder expectations within established parameters. The Project Manager acts as a project advocate by driving results, supporting timely decisions, and building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
What You Will Do
- Project Management: Independently manages low- to medium-complexity projects using CDW-G’s established delivery methodology and standard project management templates. Adapts project artifacts as needed within established practices to meet the needs of the engagement.
- Ensures the client’s documented business, technical, contractual, and operational requirements are understood and addressed throughout project delivery.
- Manages Stakeholders: Identifies project stakeholders, confirms success criteria and expectations, and involves the appropriate stakeholders in project decisions. Builds effective relationships and remains focused on meeting stakeholder expectations.
- Accountable for project financial performance within the approved budget. Monitors, interprets, and communicates project budget, actuals, forecast, and estimate-at-completion information. Escalates significant variances and supports corrective actions.
- Ensures project time, expenses, invoices, and financial records are accurately tracked, reviewed, and approved in a timely manner.
- Validates initial project scope, assumptions, estimates, deliverables, and acceptance criteria. Manages the change-control process, assesses impacts to scope, schedule, cost, resources, and risk, and determines whether a Change Order or new Statement of Work may be required.
- Ensures all items defined in the CDW Statement of Work are delivered and performs quality assurance throughout the project life cycle.
- Identifies, analyzes, documents, and manages project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. Develops mitigation actions, assigns ownership, tracks progress, and escalates items when appropriate.
- Develops, maintains, adjusts, and communicates project schedules, tasks, milestones, and dependencies in collaboration with the project team, client, subcontractors, and third-party providers.
- Supports resource planning by identifying resource needs, monitoring assignments and billable schedules, and escalating resource or scheduling constraints that could affect delivery.
- Manages equipment, software, licensing, outside services procurement, and delivery schedules applicable to the project.
- Responsible for meeting contractual performance requirements, deliverables, acceptance criteria, milestones, and due dates within the assigned project.
- Ensures compliance with applicable corporate, client, and government policies and requirements.
- Applies an understanding of government contract vehicles, Blanket Purchase Agreements, purchasing vehicles, and acquisition requirements to assigned project execution, reporting, invoicing, changes, and completion.
- Supports projects delivered under contract types that may include Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials, Cost Plus, and As-a-Service arrangements.
- Leadership: Takes accountability for assigned project outcomes and demonstrates fiscal responsibility to the client, the project, and CDW-G. Establishes clear task ownership and follows up on assigned responsibilities.
- Builds trust and credibility through reliable delivery, sound judgment, business awareness, and professional stakeholder relationships.
- Contributes to the continuous improvement of project management standards, templates, tools, best practices, and shared knowledge resources.
- Communication: Determines and maintains the appropriate project documentation, including schedules, status reports, budget information, quality plans, risk and issue logs, decision records, action items, and closure documentation.
- Communicates clear, concise, audience-appropriate project updates to clients, sales, delivery teams, and other stakeholders. Escalates decisions and issues requiring leadership support.
- Leads effective in-person and virtual project meetings. Maintains focus, documents outcomes, assigns action items, and distributes timely follow-up communications.
- Adapts communication style, content, and medium to the audience and project environment. Communicates difficult or complex project information clearly and professionally.
- Negotiation: Gathers relevant information and seeks input from Sales or Services leadership when needed. Negotiates project changes involving cost, scope, schedule, effort, or resource commitments within assigned authority.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making: Works with team members to gather information, assess potential project impacts, identify response options, document mitigation steps, and communicate decisions to the team and client.
- Documents project outcomes and lessons learned and shares them appropriately with colleagues.
What We Expect of You
- Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Three years of experience delivering technology through structured Project Management methodologies such as waterfall or agile.
- Two or more years of experience leading significant projects within a single technology solution area.
- Demonstrated ability to manage low- to medium-complexity technology projects and take accountability for assigned project outcomes.
- Experience supporting projects for enterprise, strategic, or government customers.
- Ability to manage project budgets, schedules, scope, risks, issues, changes, and contractual deliverables within established parameters.
- Working knowledge of one or more formal project management methodologies and proficiency with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, and related project management tools.
- Ability to apply business acumen, sound judgment, perseverance, and communication skills to build credibility with project stakeholders.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills, including the ability to communicate project information to business and technical stakeholders.
- Ability to participate productively in virtual teams and contribute to improvements in project management processes
- Applies discretion when handling sensitive or confidential information.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities, adapt to changing business needs, and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work weekends or outside standard business hours when necessary to meet client needs.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% or as needed to other CDW locations, meetings, and client sites.
- PMP certification required, is a plus.
- Active DoD Secret clearance strongly preferred, is a plus.
- Familiarity with government contracts, acquisition processes, and government programs, is a plus.
- Familiarity with FISMA and FedRAMP requirements, is a plus.
- Business and technical acumen related to Federal initiatives, is a plus.
- Experience supporting business value or impact analysis, is a plus.
Pay range: $85,000 - $126,200 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of 10% subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
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