Sr Project Manager - Pursuit Management

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Manage opportunities across the full pursuit lifecycle and lead cross-functional project teams through readiness milestones.
- Own integrated project plans, governance routines, milestone schedules, risk registers, action logs, and executive status reporting.
- Coordinate across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, proposal, sales, and internal stakeholders to maintain progress against pursuit timelines.
- Monitor schedule health, milestone readiness, unresolved actions, decision delays, and risk exposure across assigned opportunities.
- Escalate risks, issues, and decision needs with clear impacts, owners, timing, and recommended next steps.
- Promote practical use of approved AI-enabled tools to improve workflow efficiency, automate routine coordination tasks, and strengthen visibility into action status, milestones, and risks.
- Run after-action reviews and translate lessons learned into pursuit management, governance, and tracking improvements.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 7+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Program Requirements:

-Specialized experience needed: hands-on management of complex pursuits, proposals, implementations, or other deadline-driven projects with multiple workstreams, dependencies, governance routines, and executive visibility.

-Candidates should be advanced users of integrated project plans, milestone schedules, readiness trackers, RAID logs, action registers, decision logs, and executive status reporting.

-Must have strong cross-functional coordination experience across operations, IT, pricing, HR, finance, sales, proposal, SMEs, and leadership stakeholders.

-Must communicate clearly, escalate early, and use approved AI-enabled tools to streamline notes, action tracking, reporting, and risk visibility.

This position is fully remote and will require a home office.

Home office requirements:

Reliable high-speed internet service

Minimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivity

Minimum 5 Mpbs upload speeds

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

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Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package.

Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards.

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