American Bureau of Shipping

Project Manager (Remote)

American Bureau of Shipping$80K — $90K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of relevant professional experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification essential
  • Experience managing Cybersecurity projects is advantageous
  • Ability to obtain security clearance
  • Willingness to travel (50%+) to client sites and project locations

Responsibilities

  • Develop budgets, schedules, and profit objectives for assigned projects
  • Lead project teams to deliver quality services on time and within budget
  • Manage all phases of project lifecycle from initiation to closing
  • Enhance project effectiveness and efficiency through strategic insights
  • Deliver client presentations and status updates as necessary
  • Maintain relationships with clients to identify follow-on business opportunities

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead impactful projects
  • Build strong client relationships and enhance leadership capabilities
  • Contribute to the growth and success of the business
  • Remote work arrangement
  • High visibility role within the company
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a Project Manager, you will have the opportunity to lead impactful projects from planning through execution, shaping budgets, schedules, profit objectives, and overall financial performance within contract requirements and with support from market program senior leadership. This is a highly visible role for a driven professional who enjoys balancing strategy, client service, and operational excellence. You will guide cross-functional project teams, influence successful outcomes, and help deliver high-quality services that meet customer expectations while achieving key financial and management performance goals. This role offers the chance to build strong client relationships, strengthen leadership capabilities, and play a meaningful part in the continued growth and success of the business

What You Will Do:
  • Develop of budgets, schedules, profit objectives, and financial execution for assigned individual projects, within the requirements of contracts and subject to the approval of a market program's senior leadership.
  • Lead project team members to ensure quality services are delivered on schedule and within budget to meet customer requirements and financial/management performance metrics.
  • Manage all phases of a project including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing projects.
  • Demonstrate a firm understanding of business and implement opportunities for enhancing effectiveness and efficiencies on assigned projects and amongst team members.
  • Develop and deliver client-facing presentations, status reports, progress updates, and other materials as needed.
  • Responsible for maintaining relationships with clients and key decision makers to help identify follow-on business opportunities and maintain customer intelligence.

What You Will Need:

Education and Experience
  • 6+ years of relevant professional experience
  • Must have a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) required
  • Previous experience managing Cybersecurity projects is a plus
  • Ability to obtain security clearance
  • While the position is remote, regular travel (50%+) to client sites and project locations is a core part of the role.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Ability to gain, retain, illustrate comprehension of learned technical knowledge, and transfer knowledge to other members of the team
  • Ability to mentor/coach entry-level consultants and hone project management skills in others
  • Ability to actively listen to the needs of our clients by receiving shared information, determining context of the information provided and generating probing questions to better understand, retaining the information for future access, and engaging and collaborating with sales team on potential opportunities
  • Openly accept change as part of business evolution to meet the needs of our clients, provide recommendations to enhance business, and drive change amongst colleagues and on assigned projects
  • Possess a firm understanding of key performance indicators and their significance to the business and take action to drive results amongst their department
  • Ability to utilize established rapport and role as a subject matter expert with existing clients to facilitate development of new business through identifying and consistently generating new business opportunities
  • Ability to coach entry-level consultants on development of customer intimacy and new opportunities
  • Must take responsibility for their actions, behaviors, decisions, and results and those of the team they lead
  • Ability to utilize root cause analysis to improve performance
  • Must understand departmental goals and holds self and team members accountable for keeping commitments and high standards
  • Must be dependable and consistent
  • Ability to demonstrate independent, objective, open-minded thinking with strong attention to detail and sound judgment
  • Demonstrate a proficient level of time management skills
  • Working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management System

Salary:

$80k - $90k

Country Requirements:

US Citizenship required for roles supporting government contracts

Reporting Relationships:

Reports to a manager, director, or executive level position

About American Bureau of Shipping

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is a classification society, with a mission to promote the security of life, property and the natural environment, primarily through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction and operational maintenance of marine-related facilities. ABS is the largest classification society globally, with more than 200 offices in 70 countries. The organization was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.
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