Senior Project Manager - IT Services Delivery
Role details
Job location
Tech stack
Job description
Paragon Micro is seeking a highly skilled and customer-focused Senior Project Manager to lead complex technology implementations and professional services engagements for enterprise and mid-market clients across North America.
This role is ideal for a project management professional who excels at building relationships, navigating challenging conversations, managing risk, and driving accountability across customers, partners, subcontractors, and internal delivery teams.
You won't simply manage project plans-you will serve as the trusted advisor responsible for ensuring successful outcomes, maintaining executive-level communication, and delivering an exceptional client experience throughout the project lifecycle.
What You'll Do
Lead Strategic Customer Engagements
- Manage multiple concurrent IT services projects across infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, networking, collaboration, and digital transformation initiatives
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customers throughout project execution
- Facilitate project kickoffs, stakeholder meetings, executive reviews, and project governance activities
- Build strong relationships with customer stakeholders while maintaining accountability for project objectives and timelines
Drive Project Excellence
- Develop and manage project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, resource allocations, and deliverables
- Monitor project health, proactively identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies before issues impact delivery
- Manage project scope, change requests, dependencies, and escalation paths
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and aligned to customer expectations
Champion Communication & Accountability
- Deliver clear, concise, and proactive communication to customers, leadership, technical teams, and partners
- Facilitate discussions that drive decisions, remove roadblocks, and maintain project momentum
- Confidently navigate difficult conversations and appropriately challenge assumptions when project success is at risk
- Create and maintain thorough project documentation, status reporting, meeting notes, and risk registers
Collaborate Across Teams
- Partner closely with sales, engineering, architecture, procurement, and services delivery teams
- Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure seamless project execution
- Foster alignment among stakeholders while maintaining a high standard of professionalism and customer satisfaction
Requirements
Do you have experience in Stakeholder management?, * Exceptional communicators who build trust quickly with customers and internal teams
- Natural relationship builders who enjoy engaging with people and leading discussions
- Strong risk managers who proactively identify and address potential challenges
- Organized professionals who maintain meticulous project documentation and governance
- Confident leaders who can influence outcomes, establish accountability, and respectfully push back when necessary
- Storytellers who can communicate complex project information in a way that resonates with technical and non-technical audiences alike, * Active PMP Certification
- 5+ years of Project Management experience
- 5+ years of experience managing IT services delivery engagements
- Proven success managing multiple concurrent customer-facing projects
- Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, change control, and project financial management
- Experience working directly with executive stakeholders, customers, technical teams, and sales organizations
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Experience utilizing project management tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira, Monday.com, or similar platforms, * Experience within a Value-Added Reseller (VAR), Managed Service Provider (MSP), Systems Integrator, Technology Consulting Firm, or Professional Services organization
- Experience leading cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, networking, or digital transformation projects
- ITIL Foundation Certification
- Agile or Scrum Certification
- Experience managing projects with budgets exceeding $100,000
- Experience supporting enterprise or Fortune 1000 organizations