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Project Manager

Ekman Associates, Inc.Irvine, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Project Manager role at Ekman Associates offers a fantastic opportunity to lead impactful M&A migration projects within a reputable consulting firm, fostering significant career growth and skill development. If you excel at building rapport with diverse teams and possess a strong understanding of M365 environments and infrastructure transitions, you'll thrive in this dynamic position. Apply now to leverage your project management expertise and contribute to exciting client solutions.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Irvine, CA, United States
Posted
Yesterday
ScrumAgileBusiness AnalysisJiraPMPWaterfall

Job Description

Title: Project Manager
Location: Hybrid / Irvine, CA

Ekman Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in developing business, digital, and technology strategy, delivering solutions, and addressing human resource demands.

Summary:
We are seeking a highly talented and motivated Project Manager that is able to manage multiple complex programs / projects and drive results. This role requires that you have the ability to quickly building rapport across multidisciplinary teams. Primary role will be to project manage M&A efforts such as M&A Migration - migrate users to client systems. Must understands the M365 environment and tactical execution and ability to manage hardware/infrastructure projects that focus on transition of applications from one environment to another environment.

Key Skills:
  • Project Management Experience / PMP Certified preferred.
  • Experience with varying methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall)
  • Expertise with PM tools such as MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet, etc.
  • MS 365 Application Proficiency
  • M&A expertise
Responsibilities :
  • Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
  • Clearly communicate and document processes and updates to the team, vendors, and partners.
  • Able to work independently but also with the team for making good decisions.
  • Manage changes and demonstrate flexibility to the project scope and project schedule.
  • Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
  • Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors, where applicable.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
  • Monitors progress; reviews work progress on daily basis; prepares internal and external reports pertaining to project(s) status.
  • Plans ahead to anticipate and mitigate risks; prevent problems and resolve issues.
  • Communicate project expectations, risks, and escalations across all levels of the organization.
  • Coordinate and manage change control activities in adherence to PMO standards.
  • Effectively deliver successful project to completion on-time and within budget.
  • Effectively manage project scope, schedule, and budgets, while proactively identifying risks, issues, and dependencies.
  • Apply varying methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall), types, and sizes, ensuring objectives and project deliverables are accomplished according to plan.
  • Lead execution and delivery of solutions.
  • Drive and influence technical strategy, proactively identify problems and align on priorities.
  • Build strong, trusting partnerships to readily mobilize people and influence across a broad range of partners, leaders, and organizations without authority.
  • Deliver timely, effective, easily understandable, concise project deliverables including detailed project work plans, presentations, budget reviews, cross-project dependencies, risks analyses and mitigation, strategies, stakeholder coordination and status communication.
  • Communicate across audiences, effectively understanding and utilizing escalation paths, and updating stakeholders.
  • Create the project work plan and really manage the plan across IT, business and resources.
  • Ability to translate technical rollouts and features to non-technical audiences.
  • Handle high volume workloads and provide exceptional customer support.
  • Accountable for driving delivery of projects from start to finish.
  • Ability to manages external resources; vendors and contractors when required.
  • Independently manage teams and help groups problem solve.
  • Facilitate meetings, discussions and document key decisions made.
  • Manage tight deadlines.
Qualifications:
  • B.S./B.A. degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience.
  • 5 to 8 years' experience leading technical infrastructure focused projects.
  • Experience in project managing infrastructure projects such as decommissioning/moving/upgrading infrastructure technology.
  • Experience in managing M&A projects such as onboarding (email transfers, security transfers, etc.), integration, decommissions, etc.
  • Demonstrated project management experience with large projects, organizational skills, and an ability to maintain and create standards.
  • Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision; must be a self-motivated self-starter who can initiate ideas and take ownership of work.
  • Able to prioritize tasks and projects and forecast upcoming project needs.
  • Excellent organization and communication skills, as well as strong and consistent attention to detail.
  • Results-oriented with initiative to work until job is complete.
  • Excellent communicator Organization skills, Smart sheets, Office 365 application proficiency.
  • Good general understanding of business processes, data, and applications.
  • Business Analysis – Experience working with business teams to gather requirements and fulfill those requirements.
Qualified Candidates Only : If you wish to learn more about this opportunity and additional qualifications/responsibilities, please submit your resume. To learn more about Ekman Associates, Inc. please visit our website at .


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