Senior Project Manager - Government

About this role

The Senior Project Manager independently manages strategic technology projects and may serve as a Project Manager within a broader program. Projects are typically high in complexity, risk, or visibility and may involve emerging or highly customized technologies, multiple solution areas, complex systems integration, and third-party vendors. The Senior Project Manager owns all aspects of project delivery, from initiation through closure, and works closely with sales, consultants, clients, subcontractors, and cross-functional delivery teams. This role is accountable for project scope, schedule, financial performance, contractual commitments, risk management, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction. The Senior Project Manager may provide guidance and mentorship to other project team members. The role acts as a project advocate, driving results, making difficult decisions, and building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
What You Will Do

• Successfully executes projects using CDW-G’s established delivery methodology, adapting the approach where appropriate to meet the needs of each engagement. Manages projects that may span multiple solution areas, service areas, workstreams, technologies, and third-party providers. Ensures the client’s business, technical, contractual, and operational requirements are understood and met.

• Evaluates the client’s project management methodology and incorporates appropriate CDW-G standards, controls, templates, and reporting requirements to create a comprehensive project delivery approach.

• Accountable for project financial performance and profitability. Develops, monitors, interprets, and communicates project budgets, forecasts, margins, and estimate-at-completion projections. Identifies budget-to-actual variances and recommends corrective actions.

• Ensures project time, expenses, invoices, and financial records are accurately tracked, reviewed, and approved in a timely manner. Identifies financial risks and works with project stakeholders to mitigate their impact.

• Understands the financial implications of project decisions and changes, including their potential effect on the client relationship, contractual commitments, and CDW-G profitability.

• Validates initial project scope, assumptions, estimates, deliverables, and acceptance criteria. Evaluates proposed changes for their impact on scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, contractual commitments, and client outcomes. Develops recommendations and initiates the appropriate change-control actions.

• Establishes strategies to minimize client and project impact resulting from approved or anticipated changes. Communicates impacts and recommendations to the appropriate stakeholders.

• Ensures all items defined in the CDW Statement of Work are delivered and performs quality assurance throughout the project life cycle.

• Proactively identifies, analyzes, documents, and manages project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies. Develops mitigation and contingency plans and communicates exposure, ownership, and required decisions to stakeholders.

• Identifies risks and dependencies originating from related CDW-G initiatives, client environments, vendors, purchasing processes, and external stakeholders. Evaluates their potential effect on the project and coordinates appropriate response plans.

• Proactively conducts resource planning across project workstreams. Monitors and adjusts assignments, capacity, and billable schedules as necessary. Resolves resource and scheduling conflicts and escalates constraints that could affect project delivery.

• Develops, maintains, and communicates integrated project schedules in collaboration with engineering teams, client teams, subcontractors, and third-party vendors. Aligns project dependencies, milestones, contractual dates, and resource commitments.

• Ensures external resources are properly vetted and manages associated contracts through CDW-G or client contract administration and purchasing processes.

• Manages equipment, software, licensing, outside services procurement, and delivery schedules.

• Responsible for meeting contractual performance requirements, deliverables, acceptance criteria, milestones, and due dates throughout project delivery and completion.

• Ensures compliance with applicable corporate, client, and government policies and requirements.

• Understands government contract vehicles, Blanket Purchase Agreements, purchasing vehicles, and acquisition requirements and evaluates how they affect project execution, reporting, invoicing, changes, and completion.

• Manages projects delivered under diverse contract types, which may include Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials, Cost Plus, and As-a-Service arrangements.

• Documents project outcomes and lessons learned and shares them appropriately with colleagues.

• Takes accountability for project outcomes and demonstrates fiscal responsibility to the client, the project, and CDW-G. Establishes clear performance expectations and holds project team members accountable for assigned responsibilities.

• Provides guidance, mentorship, and support to project team members. May coordinate the work of other Project Managers or project leads when required by the engagement.

• Builds trust and credibility through strong stakeholder relationships, business acumen, sound judgment, political awareness, and consistent delivery.

• Demonstrates the ability to diffuse difficult situations involving the client or project team and leads teams to consistently meet project success factors and client expectations.

• Leads or contributes to the development and continuous improvement of project management standards, templates, tools, best practices, knowledge resources, and training materials.

• Establishes and owns the project communication plan and related documentation, including schedules, status reports, financial reporting, quality plans, risk and issue reporting,…