At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We help organizations of all kinds redefine what’s possible, give shape to the future—and get there.
Who You’ll Work With
Our Business Advisory Services teams help organizations of all kinds redefine what’s possible, give shape to the future—and get there. We focus on high-impact projects, meeting our clients where they are to uncover business needs and deliver results. Our teams go beyond the expected to help clients move confidently through ambiguity and risk and drive more transformative outcomes.
The Tri-State Delivery Leadership Team is seeking an experienced Project Manager with a strong consulting background to join our dynamic team. Successful candidates should demonstrate leadership and flexibility, as well as the ability to build rapport with clients, team members, managers, and senior executives. The person in this role must be able to deftly apply skills and methodology to manage others, proactively mitigate risks, resolve issues, and escalate projects when appropriate.
Slalom consultants work across multiple disciplines and industries, and must be able to understand their clients’ businesses and build credibility quickly. Typical project areas include: leading process or system improvements; custom and packaged system development and implementation; vendor selection; and product definition, development, and launch. Projects vary in length, lasting from a few weeks to several months.
Responsibilities
- Scope management:
- Correctly sizing the project or program and ensuring sufficient time / funds / resources are secured to deliver against what has been agreed
- Subsequent change control: Defending the original scope and ensuring that any agreed changes are properly assessed for their impact on time / cost / quality
- Planning:
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of how to construct a plan and how tasks relate to one another e.g. critical path, dependencies, adding in contingency
- Demonstrate how to manage a plan during the project – updating tasks, identifying slippage, adding in change
- Run team meetings
- Stakeholder Management:
- Comfortable working with Board-level stakeholders and gearing message to the audience
- Methodology: Strong understanding and experience with both Waterfall and Agile projects
Preferred Skills
- Experience: A minimum of 3 years as a Project Manager in a consulting environment
- Personal attributes:
- Strong team builder with a focus on team morale
- Strong communicator: you can communicate your thoughts clearly, concisely and confidently either one-to-one or to a room-full of project stakeholders in a language common to all (translate technical speak to business speak)
- An ability to see the big picture: you maintain focus on the project's goals even when working under pressure
- Command of the details: knowing your project inside out
- Good negotiating skills
- Highly organised
- Pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Collaborative and good at involving others
- Adaptable self-starter who is skilled at creating structure in ambiguous environments
About Us
Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In six countries and 43 markets, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Backed by close partnerships with over 400 leading technology providers, our 13,000+ strong team helps people and organizations dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all. We’re honored to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, including being one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For seven years running. Learn more at slalom.com.
Compensation And Benefits
Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.
Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $109,500 to $169,500. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.
EEO and Accommodations
Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process. We will accept applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected for the position.
