Job Title: Project Manager - Global Security Strategic Initiatives
Location: North Chicago, IL 60064
Work Type: Hybrid
For now for this role lookin for someone who doesn't require sponsorship now an din the future.
Qualifications and Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies:
- Degree in a relevant subject area or equivalent experience gained through enterprise project or transformation work.
- 6+ years of experience managing complex, cross‑functional projects or programs, with a demonstrated ability to move work forward in environments where priorities evolve.
- Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives at the same time, balancing scope, timelines, and capacity while keeping leadership informed of risks and tradeoffs.
- Strong business and operational acumen, with the ability to anticipate organizational needs, connect work to strategic intent, and help leaders make informed decisions.
- Experience leading or supporting enterprise‑level initiatives in transformation, technology enablement, regulated environments, or security‑adjacent functions.
- Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills, with experience partnering across teams such as Technology, HR, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, EHS, Facilities, and regional operations to coordinate execution.
- Clear, concise communicator with strong organizational skills and attention to detail, able to distill complexity into actionable next steps.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel); experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, or similar tools is a plus.
- Familiarity with security or enterprise systems (e.g., access management platforms, incident or mass‑notification systems) is a plus, but not required.
What Success Looks Like:
- Leadership has clear visibility into priorities, risks, and capacity, and can make informed decisions without surprise.
- Strategic initiatives move from approval to delivery with disciplined governance and minimal rework.
- Pilots result in clear scale / stop decisions and repeatable rollout plans.
- Cross‑functional stakeholders view the PMO as a decision‑enablement partner, not a reporting function.
Top 3 – 5 Skills Needed:
1. Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities using a structured intake, sequencing, and delivery model.
- Comfortable operating at both project-level execution and portfolio-level tradeoff discussions (capacity, priority, timing).
- Experience supporting PMO governance, not just running isolated projects.
2. Executive & Steering Committee Enablement
- Demonstrated experience preparing leadership-ready materials: decision briefs, status summaries, risks/tradeoffs, and options—not raw project updates.
- Skilled at framing work so leaders can clearly answer: approve, defer, change scope, or stop.
- Comfortable facilitating governance forums (SteerCo, leadership reviews) and following through on decisions.
3. Cross-Functional Influence & Change Management
- Strong ability to work across Security,
- BTS, HR, Legal, Compliance, EHS, Facilities, and Regions—without formal authority.
- Experience supporting change management, communications, and
- training rollouts, especially where policy or behavior change is involved.
- Understands that adoption risk is just as critical as technical delivery.
4. Comfort in Regulated / Security-Adjacent Environments
- Familiarity with security, compliance-driven, or regulated environments (physical security,
- IT/security systems, pharma, manufacturing, privacy, safety).
- Understands concepts like risk, controls, audits, access management, and policy enforcement—even if they are not the technical expert.
5. Structured Thinking + Comfort with Ambiguity
- Ability to bring structure to unclear work, especially early-stage initiatives coming out of Phoenix, AI exploration, or strategy discussions.
- Strong judgment on when to add rigor vs.
- keep things light, depending on risk and scale.
- Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable iterating as strategy evolves.
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