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About the Role

The Jackson Lewis Program Management Office (PMO) partners with firm leadership to enable successful execution of the firm's strategic priorities through disciplined portfolio, program, project, and organizational change management. This role advances the PMO's maturity, leads PMO team members, and establishes the firm's organizational change management capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Program Managers.
• Establish performance expectations, career development plans, and coaching opportunities.
• Provide guidance on project execution, stakeholder engagement, governance, and delivery excellence.
• Promote collaboration, accountability, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Partner with the Director of PMO to define, implement, and mature enterprise PMO standards, tools, and best practices.
• Help mature project governance, portfolio management processes, project delivery methodologies, and reporting standards.
• Support strategic planning activities and portfolio governance.
• Build and mature the PMO’s Change Management capability.
• Develop repeatable Change Management methodologies, frameworks, templates, and best practices.
• Establish standards for stakeholder engagement, communications, training, readiness assessments, adoption measurement, and reinforcement activities.
• Partner with business leaders, HR, Communications, Learning & Development, and Technology teams to ensure successful adoption of new capabilities.
• Serve as the Project or Program Manager and lead cross-functional, complex, enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Establish governance structures and executive reporting.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
• Facilitate executive steering committees and decision-making forums.
• Ensure successful delivery and organizational adoption of strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• 7+ years of enterprise project and program management experience.
• Experience developing project management standards, governance, and methodologies.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving technology and business teams.
• Proven knowledge and experience in Change Management.
• Leadership experience onboarding and managing project managers or project delivery teams.
• Familiarity with Agile and traditional project management methodologies.

Skills

• Project Management
• Program Management
• Organizational Change Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Executive Communication
• Agile Methodologies
• Traditional Project Management Methodologies

Location

• Nationwide

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 7+ years of enterprise project and program management experience
• Leadership experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• PMP, CAPM, CSM, or comparable project management certification preferred.
• Prosci Change Management Certification or equivalent preferred.

Salary/Compensations

• New York and San Francisco metro area: $170,000 - $198,450
• Illinois and Massachusetts: $156,000 - $181,912.50
• Eligible for annual bonuses

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Account
• Firm-paid holidays, vacation and sick time
• Employee assistance program and other firm benefits

About the Company

• Focused on employment and labor law since 1958.
• 1,000+ attorneys located in major cities nationwide.
• Ranked in the First Tier nationally in the category of Labor and Employment Litigation, as well as in both Employment Law and Labor Law on behalf of Management, in the U.S. News - Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms”.

Equal Opportunity

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristics protected by law.