W2 contract || IAM Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and coordinate multiple Identity & Access Management (IAM) initiatives across the enterprise. This role will partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and business teams to successfully deliver strategic IAM programs, including identity modernization, authentication, access governance, privileged access management, and customer identity solutions. Key Responsibilities Delivery & Execution

• Manage multiple concurrent IAM projects from initiation through implementation and transition to operations.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, RAID logs, and cross-project dependency maps.
• Drive day-to-day execution across distributed and vendor-supported delivery teams, keeping scope, schedule, and effort aligned.

Stakeholder & Vendor Coordination

• Coordinate cross-functional teams spanning cybersecurity, infrastructure, application development, HR, and business units.
• Manage third-party vendors and systems integrators against agreed scope, deliverables, and timelines.
• Serve as the single point of coordination for IAM program stakeholders.

Governance & Communication

• Facilitate project governance forums, steering committee reviews, and recurring status reporting.
• Prepare executive-level communications, dashboards, and decision packages tailored to senior leadership.
• Maintain transparent, auditable project documentation.

Risk, Compliance & Controls

• Identify, escalate, and mitigate project risks, issues, and roadblocks before they affect delivery.
• Ensure alignment with security policy, regulatory and audit requirements, enterprise architecture standards, and change management processes.
• Partner with security architecture and compliance teams to confirm control requirements are designed in, not retrofitted.

Resource & Performance Management

• Track project resource needs, capacity, and financials against plan.
• Define and report key performance metrics, including adoption, remediation progress, and delivery health indicators., Successful delivery of IAM initiatives that strengthen the organization’s security posture, improve the user and customer experience, reduce identity-related risk, and advance the enterprise identity modernization strategy. Concretely, in the first twelve months:
• Active IAM projects delivered against committed scope, schedule, and budget.
• A clear, trusted single source of truth for IAM portfolio status at the executive level.
• Risks and dependencies surfaced early enough to be resolved rather than absorbed.
• Audit and compliance requirements met with no material findings attributable to project execution.

• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably in cybersecurity or IAM.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, cross-functional technology projects with multiple dependencies and delivery partners.
• Strong stakeholder management, written and verbal communication, and organizational skills, including experience communicating with executive audiences.
• Working familiarity with IAM technologies and concepts, including SSO, MFA, Entra ID, Okta, SailPoint, CyberArk, and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).
• Proficiency with project and collaboration tooling (for example Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to work onsite in Bethlehem, PA or Holmdel, NJ.

Preferred Experience

• Hands-on program experience across Workforce IAM, Customer IAM (CIAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Access Governance, and Authentication Modernization initiatives.
• Delivery experience in regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, or healthcare.
• Familiarity with regulatory and control frameworks relevant to identity (SOX, NYDFS, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST 800-63).
• Experience with legacy-to-cloud identity migrations or directory consolidation.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or CISSP certification.
• Experience operating in hybrid Agile and waterfall delivery environments.