Senior Project Manager / Business Analyst – Consultant
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Senior Project Manager and Business Analyst contributing to Washington State ERP initiatives. Leadership in project management and business analysis with an AI-driven focus.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end project management for complex, multi-workstream engagements including scope, schedule, budget, risk, and issue management
- Develop, maintain, and execute detailed MS Project plans with dependencies, resource loading, and elaborated tasks; apply hybrid Agile/Waterfall approaches appropriate to the engagement context
- Drive clarity and alignment when project conditions are ambiguous, off-track, or politically complex, including developing recovery plans and realignment strategies when things go sideways
- Facilitate project status reporting, executive briefings, and governance checkpoints
- Deliver status updates and executive reporting in visually compelling formats that tell the right story for the right audience, not just data dumps
- Identify and proactively manage project risks and dependencies across interconnected workstreams
- Elicit, document, and validate business and functional requirements through structured interviews, workshops, and process observation
- Develop and maintain business process flow diagrams, gap analyses, use cases, and other analytical artifacts that drive clarity, not just check boxes
- Assess current state and future state business processes to identify impacts, risks, and opportunities associated with system and operational changes
- Translate complex business requirements into clear, actionable specifications for technical teams and system integrators, specifications they can actually build from without three rounds of clarification
- Support configuration, testing, and validation activities related to ERP/Workday implementation workstreams, including UAT planning and execution
- Use AI tools to rapidly synthesize meeting notes, interview transcripts, and workshop outputs into structured requirements documents, gap analyses, and decision frameworks, compressing days of manual synthesis into hours
- Use AI for project data analysis: identifying risk patterns across workstreams, surfacing schedule dependencies, forecasting resource conflicts, and generating early-warning indicators that inform proactive decision-making
- Use AI to accelerate the creation of executive-ready deliverables: status reports, briefing decks, business cases, and analytical artifacts, at a quality and speed that traditional approaches can’t match
- Use AI as an analytical partner to pressure-test requirements, validate business process logic, identify specification gaps, and stress-test assumptions before they reach technical teams
- Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging AI tools and techniques that improve PM and BA delivery, and share innovations with the Liberum team to raise the collective capability
- Manage relationships with executive sponsors, steering committees, and cross-functional stakeholders across state agency environments
- Engage and build foundational relationships with customers, project sponsors, vendors, and external stakeholders
- Coordinate across vendor, state agency, and internal Liberum team members to ensure integrated delivery
- Proactively communicate project progress, risks, and value delivered to client stakeholders, ensuring visibility into team contributions throughout the engagement
- Coach and mentor client-side staff to build internal PM and BA capability where applicable
- Collaborate with OCM, training, and communications teams to ensure PM and BA outputs support adoption and readiness activities
- Identify opportunities to create additional client value throughout the engagement lifecycle, not just fulfill the SOW, but actively look for ways to make the client better
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of combined experience in project management and business analysis roles, with demonstrated senior-level performance in both functions, not just titles but outcomes you can walk us through
- Direct experience supporting or delivering at least one major ERP implementation (Workday, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or equivalent)
- Workday experience: functional knowledge of one or more Workday modules (HCM, Finance, Payroll, etc.) preferred, with hands-on configuration or testing experience ideal
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects in highly regulated or politically sensitive environments, where the org chart doesn’t tell you who actually makes decisions
- Experience facilitating executive-level stakeholder engagement, including steering committees and sponsor briefings
- Proficiency in developing business process documentation, requirements artifacts, and gap analysis deliverables that drive action, not shelf-ware
- Experience conducting business interviews and leading client workshops at both operational and leadership levels
- Active, daily use of AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or equivalent) integrated into your PM and BA workflow, not occasional experimentation, but a fundamental part of how you work. You should be able to demonstrate specific examples of how AI has changed your delivery speed, quality, or analytical depth.
- Demonstrated ability to use AI for document synthesis, requirements analysis, data pattern recognition, risk identification, and deliverable creation in a professional consulting context
- Comfort prompting and directing AI tools effectively. You understand how to get high-quality, contextually appropriate outputs and know the limitations of AI-generated content
- Intellectual curiosity and initiative around emerging AI capabilities. Proactively experiment with new tools and bring innovations to your team, not wait for someone to assign them
- Strong writing skills: the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise deliverables for both technical audiences and executive stakeholders
- Hybrid methodology fluency: ability to blend Agile and Waterfall approaches pragmatically based on what the project and client actually need
- Proficiency in MS Project or equivalent scheduling tools, including dependency mapping and resource-loaded plans
- Professional courage to deliver difficult findings and recommendations with data, grace, and actionable solutions, not just flag problems, but bring answers
- Proven ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively within a remote or hybrid team environment
- Exceptional client relationship management skills
- PMP certification or equivalent project management credential preferred
- PMI-PBA or CBAP certification a plus
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits: full medical, dental, life, and short-term disability coverage, plus 401k with 4% match (no vesting period)
- Competitive compensation: $140,000–$160,000 annually based on experience
- Generous PTO: 15 days (0–5 years) or 20 days (5+ years), plus 9 paid holidays and WA state sick leave accrual
- Bonus Leave program for employees who go above and beyond.
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