Job Description: Project Manager – Global Security Strategic Initiatives
Length of Contract: 6 months (Potential Extension)
Location/Site: IL-Lake County, 60064
Overview:
The Project Manager will play a key role in leading and coordinating enterprise-level initiatives including Global
Security transformation efforts, strategic technology projects, and other cross-functional initiatives approved
through the Project Management Office (PMO) governance.
This role requires a PM who can manage complexity, enable executive decision-making, and drive disciplined
execution across multiple high?visibility initiatives—often operating with incomplete information, evolving
scope, and senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
• Serve as project manager for multiple concurrent initiatives across the Global Security strategic
portfolio, including transformation, technology enablement, and operational improvement efforts
• Translate leadership direction into clear project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and execution
timelines.
• Maintain project visibility and accountability, drafting and updating core project documentation (e.g.,
4?ups, business cases, project plans, RAIDs etc), facilitating stakeholder meetings, and following up
with owners to ensure progress and closure.
• Manage and track progress across multiple initiatives, overseeing project intake, scheduling, timelines,
milestones, and meeting cadence in alignment with Global Security PMO processes, while proactively
surfacing risks, tradeoffs, and capacity considerations to support timely decision?making.
• Arrange and facilitate regular stakeholder meetings.
• Measure project outcomes and success against organizational goals.
• Prepare materials for Steering Committee and leadership meetings, including status updates, decision
briefs, risk summaries, and options analysis.
• Partner with cross?functional stakeholders including Business Technology Services (BTS), HR, Legal,
Compliance, Privacy, EHS, Facilities, and regional Security teams to coordinate execution.
• Ensure technical, policy, training, and compliance requirements are identified and incorporated into
project plans, partnering with stakeholders to support change communications, enable user adoption,
and minimize resistance.
• Ensure project governance, process documentation, and training resources are developed, stored, and
shared as appropriate.
Qualifications and Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies
• Degree in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience gained through enterprise project or
transformation work.
• 6+ years of experience managing complex, cross?functional projects or programs, with a demonstrated
ability to move work forward in environments where priorities evolve.
• Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives at the same time, balancing scope, timelines, and capacity
while keeping leadership informed of risks and tradeoffs.
• Strong business and operational acumen, with the ability to anticipate organizational needs, connect
work to strategic intent, and help leaders make informed decisions.
• Experience leading or supporting enterprise?level initiatives in transformation, technology enablement,
regulated environments, or security?adjacent functions.
• Comfortable working with senior leaders, governance bodies, and steering committees, including
preparing leadership?ready materials and supporting decision?making forums.
• Strong cross?functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering across teams such as
Technology, HR, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, EHS, Facilities, and regional operations to coordinate
execution.
• Experience supporting or leading change management and communications efforts, including policy
rollouts, training coordination, and adoption planning.
• Familiarity with security, compliance?driven, or regulated environments is strongly preferred, including
comfort navigating risk, controls, audits, and policy requirements (deep technical expertise is not
required).
• Strong understanding of project governance, portfolio management, and change management
principles, with a bias toward disciplined execution and transparency.
• Clear, concise communicator with strong organizational skills and attention to detail, able to distill
complexity into actionable next steps.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel); experience with Power Apps, Power
Automate, Power BI, or similar tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with security or enterprise systems (e.g., access management platforms, incident or
mass?notification systems) is a plus, but not required.
What Success Looks Like
• Leadership has clear visibility into priorities, risks, and capacity, and can make informed decisions
without surprise.
• Strategic initiatives move from approval to delivery with disciplined governance and minimal rework.
• Pilots result in clear scale / stop decisions and repeatable rollout plans.
• Cross?functional stakeholders view the PMO as a decision?enablement partner, not a reporting function.
  
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 70.00/hr.