Senior Project Manager

Acliviti Consulting Group, LLC

  • Chicago, IL
  • 1 day ago
  • Remote

    Highlights

    We are a vendor-neutral consultancy that helps enterprise organizations define strategy, lead execution, and provide ongoing support - all while aligning stakeholders and delivering outcomes that matter. Project Manager is responsible for leading successful delivery of complex Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) transformation projects for enterprise and mid-market clients.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationChicago, IL (
    Remote
    )

    Description

    Senior Project Manager

    This is a fully remote role.

    Why We’re Different: 

     

    Acliviti doesn’t just advise clients - we co-create their vision, align internal teams, and help them stay ahead of what’s next. We are a vendor-neutral consultancy that helps enterprise organizations define strategy, lead execution, and provide ongoing support - all while aligning stakeholders and delivering outcomes that matter. 

     

    We Are: 

    • Experts in customer experience delivering operational and technical transformation
    • Strategic partners who stay engaged before, during, and after implementation to ensure objectives are achieved
    • Boardroom translators - connecting CX vision, technical platforms, and financial value
    • Outcome-driven professionals who know 95% of spend is on human capital, not just tech
    • Remote-first and cross-functional, with deep expertise across industries

    Our Clients Are: 

    • Enterprise organizations modernizing their customer engagement ecosystem
    • CX, IT, Operations, and Finance leaders seeking true stakeholder alignment
    • Teams navigating complex transformation programs with high visibility and high stakes
    • Businesses who need business cases, vendor guidance, and enterprise-class execution
    • Companies looking to optimize revenue & cost models, reduce friction, and drive customer growth

    How We Solve: 

     

    We lead clients through a continuous improvement cycle with three integrated service areas: 

    Strategy: We help clients define where they’re going - and how to get there. 

    • Customer Experience Design
    • Performance Optimization
    • Transformation Capabilities

    Execution: We lead execution across people, platforms, and processes. 

    • Technical Platform & Capabilities
    • Operational Management
    • Data & Analytics

    Managed Solutions & Support: We stay engaged post-launch to ensure long-term success. 

    • Operational & Technical Oversight
    • Outcome & Expense Management
    • Artificial Intelligence & Data Segmentation

     

    Role Overview:

    The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for leading successful delivery of complex Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) transformation projects for enterprise and mid-market clients.  This role oversees multiple workstreams including architecture, engineering, integrations and operational readiness

     

    Our Senior Project Manager Will:

    LMA (Lead – Manage – Accountability)

    • Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale transformation programs from mobilization through deployment, ensuring accountability for scope, timeline, budget, and outcomes
    • Lead cross-functional teams, providing alignment, prioritization, execution discipline, and performance oversight
    • Establish clear responsibilities and expectations across all stakeholders
    • Drive a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement

     

    Lead Program Governance & Project Workstreams

    • Establish and enforce governance standards, including executive steering committees, risk reviews and delivery meeting cadences, including status reporting, and project documentation
    • Ensure all meetings are followed by clear meeting recaps, documenting any risks/decisions and impacts to project timelines.
    • Maintain updated RAID logs, program pulse, and tracking tools
    • Oversee multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment to program objectives and timelines
    • Identify risks, dependencies, and issues early to drive mitigations plans and escalate as needed and updated and tracked in project tools
    • Ensure the accuracy of company revenue realization by managing billing milestones with both clients and vendors
    • Ensure the accuracy of project resources by managing the project plan and forecasted hours per resource against the assumed project timelines

     

    Lead Leadership & SteerCo Relationships

    • Act as a primary interface for client stakeholders and executive leadership
    • Lead meetings with clear and concise executive level updates
    • Translate complex technical and operational topics into actionable business insights
    • Partner with Sales to support ongoing and future client opportunities  

     

     

    Build Program Plan& Level of Effort (LoE)

    • Develop and maintain detailed program plans, including timelines, milestones, dependencies and resource forecast/allocation
    • Ensure project plans are accurately forecasted and updated weekly
    • Proactively manage resource planning across multiple projects, ensuring visibility into demand and capacity
    • Drive short-term planning discipline by reviewing and aligning 2–6-week sprint planning across delivery teams
    • Ensure projects plans are updated weekly to support accurate weekly reporting and forecasting projections
    • Support and manage Level of Effort estimates and support SOW development

     

    Lead CSAT Milestones & Results

    • Own CSAT throughout the program lifecycle
    • Identify and track key customer KPIs and metrics that inform stakeholders and identify actionable insights that drive rapid decision making
    • Monitor delivery health and proactively address gaps
    • Lead post-go-live reviews to ensure continued value realization
    • Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality outcomes

     

    Our ideal candidate will:

    • Have 5-7 years of experience in project/program management and customer facing work in the (CCaaS) digital transformation space
    • Have a Bachelor's Degree or higher
    • Be comfortable in all stages of a contact center & digital transformation project, from evaluating vendors, implementing new technology, customer roadmap discussions, and post go-live support
    • Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate complex findings to non-technical audiences
    • Prove to be highly motivated, with demonstrated success leading cross-functional project teams
    • Have functional knowledge of technical platforms such as Salesforce and Smartsheet
    • Be proficient in Microsoft product suite
    • Have the ability to manage budgets for transformational programs related to projects/workstreams
    • Have experience owning and managing individual and team tasks, deliverables 

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • Have a Project Management Certification (PMI, PMP), Agile (PMI-ACP), Scrum Master (CSM) or related certifications
    • Experience with NICE CXone , Genesys Cloud, other cloud telephony platforms a plus
    • A strong background and understanding of contact center technology and industry-leading CCaaS solutions, and must be able to articulate their technical differences and business value to a wide range of audiences
    • Experience in CCaaS software design, documenting and implementing enterprise-level clientele

     

    You will love our culture if you are: 

    • An ambitious intrapreneur who loves building new things.
    • Someone that loves technology, process as well as numbers – and all the space in between – to figure out the right balance of features, functionality, and affordability for each client
    • Comfortable communicating through a variety of mediums with many different audiences and objectives
    • Great at anticipating and solving problems – individually, internally, and for our clients
    • An organized self-starter who is always eager to learn something new
    • Comfortable adapting to new situations and solving new problems with the pace and occasional ambiguity that occurs in high-growth businesses
    • A positive force who enjoys working closely with new people and exploring new ideas
    • Driven by seeing your work have a direct impact

    ACG has a competitive benefits package including: 

    • 100% coverage of employee health care, vision, and dental insurance
    • HSA & FSA plans available
    • Disability & Voluntary Benefits available
    • 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match
    • Generous variable comp opportunity
    • Work-from-home monthly incentive
    • Inclusive remote working environments