Business & IT Project Manager: Level 3

We are looking for a strong Project Manager to help drive execution across several business and technology initiatives. This individual will be responsible for running status meetings, tracking action items to closure, following up with stakeholders on commitments, and ensuring releases are delivered successfully. More importantly, I need someone who is focused on getting work done, identifying risks early, and driving mitigation plans before issues impact delivery., * 1. Describe a project where you identified a significant risk before it became an issue. What actions did you take?

• What We’re Looking For: Proactive risk identification, structured mitigation planning, ownership, and measurable outcomes.
• 1. Tell me about a time you had to hold a team member accountable for missed commitments.
• What We’re Looking For: Ability to drive accountability, address performance gaps professionally, remove blockers, and follow through until commitments are met.
• 1. If you joined a new project today and had to run status meetings next week, how would you get up to speed?
• What We’re Looking For: Learning agility, structured onboarding approach, ability to quickly understand priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholders.
• 1. Walk me through how you’ve used Jira to manage a complex initiative.
• What We’re Looking For: Deep Jira expertise including dashboards, reporting, dependency management, release tracking, and executive visibility.
• 1. Describe a release that was at risk. How did you manage it to completion?
• What We’re Looking For: Release management experience, cross-functional coordination, risk mitigation, and successful delivery under pressure.
• 1. Tell me about a project where Agile and Waterfall approaches had to coexist.
• What We’re Looking For: Practical experience operating in hybrid delivery environments with a focus on outcomes rather than methodology.
• 1. What information do you expect to see in a weekly project status report?
• What We’re Looking For: Focus on project health, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions needed, and action item ownership rather than activity reporting.
• 1. Describe a situation where you had to escalate an issue to leadership.
• What We’re Looking For: Sound judgment, timely escalation, clear communication of business impact, and recommendations for resolution.
• 1. What is the difference between reporting status and driving execution?
• What We’re Looking For: Understanding that project management is more than reporting. Strong candidates will emphasize accountability, risk management, issue resolution, stakeholder alignment, and ensuring commitments are completed.
• 1. What is your experience in running an app development project?
• What We’re Looking For: Ensure the candidate has experience with new app development. How have they helped drive testing and go-live activities?
• Please focus on candidates who have demonstrated a track record of driving outcomes, managing risk, and ensuring teams deliver on their commitments.

• Strong risk identification, management, and mitigation experience
• Ability to drive accountability across cross-functional teams
• Experience tracking releases from planning through production deployment
• Strong Jira expertise, including dashboards, reporting, dependency management, and release tracking
• Comfortable working in both Agile and Waterfall environments
• Ability to quickly come up to speed on new business domains and complex initiatives
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to escalate issues appropriately and remove blockers
• Experience managing RAID logs, project plans, milestones, and executive status reporting, * We are looking for a highly organized, delivery-focused Project Manager who can quickly understand a complex environment, proactively identify and mitigate risks, drive accountability across teams, manage releases end-to-end, and leverage Jira to provide visibility while ensuring commitments are actually completed.

4.54.5 out of 5 stars Columbus, OH 43230 $72.75 - $82.75 an hour - Contract, Pay: $72.75 - $82.75/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.