Lead Project Manager

Job Title: Lead Project Manager

Location: Colorado

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote

Pay Rate: $ 50.00-70.00/ Hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, that offers communications, network services, security, cloud solutions, voice, and managed services.

Job Description:

• The Lead Project Manager within the GCO Front Door is responsible for leading end to end presales program execution, governance, and cross functional coordination for deals entering Operations.
• This role ensures that opportunities flowing through the Front Door are executed with discipline, visibility, and alignment across Sales, Operations, & Delivery.
• The Lead Project Manager drives structured multi workstream engagement, manages presales risks and dependencies, and ensures that customer commitments are achievable, governed, and operationally executable prior to deal signature.
• The role serves as a critical connection point between strategy and execution, protecting delivery outcomes while enabling Sales velocity.

The Main Responsibilities:

• Program Leadership & Deal Orchestration
• Own the overall presales program lifecycle for assigned Front Door opportunities, from intake through approval and readiness to execute.
• Lead structured deal reviews, working sessions, and leadership checkpoints to align scope, timelines, resourcing, and delivery approach.
• Coordinate across multiple workstreams (delivery, engineering, finance, contract, product, field operations) to ensure cohesive execution.
• Act as the single point of accountability for program readiness, ensuring all required inputs and commitments are aligned.

Governance, Risk & Issue Management :

• Drive Front Door governance standards to ensure disciplined intake, review, escalation, and decision making.
• Identify execution risks, delivery constraints, resourcing gaps, or dependency conflicts early and proactively manage mitigation plans.
• Escalate issues appropriately with clear options, impacts, and recommendations for leadership decision making.
• Ensure alignment between customer commitments, delivery capabilities, and operational capacity.

Cross Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Management :

• Partner closely with Sales to support deal progression while maintaining delivery integrity and realistic commitments.
• Collaborate with Operations to align financial assumptions, contract terms, and delivery models.
• Serve as a trusted operational advisor to internal partners, providing clarity, structure, and execution confidence.
• Facilitate communication across stakeholders to ensure transparency and shared understanding of program status and risks.

Process Improvement & Scaling the Front Door :

• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the Front Door operating model as deal volume and complexity scale.
• Standardize presales program management artifacts, workflows, and governance practices.
• Identify opportunities to reduce friction, eliminate duplicate handoffs, and improve cycle time without compromising quality.
• Support reporting, dashboards, and leadership visibility into pipeline, capacity, and execution readiness.

What we look for in a candidate:

• Experience leading complex, cross functional programs in operational or presales environments
• Remote position - travel only required for offsite team meetings (at least once a year)
• Demonstrated success managing multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities and high stakeholder visibility
• Background working closely with Sales, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Delivery teams
• Familiarity with governance frameworks, intake models, or enterprise operating models is a plus
• Strong program and project management discipline, with the ability to drive structure in ambiguous environments
• Excellent risk, issue, and dependency management skills, with a bias toward proactive mitigation
• Ability to translate complex information into clear, executive ready insights
• High level of comfort influencing without authority and navigating matrixed organizations
• Clear, confident communicator with the ability to engage both working teams and leaders
• Skilled facilitator of cross functional discussions, deal reviews, and decision forums

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity