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They are also responsible for achieving sales and profit targets and for adhering to the project schedule.\nThe Project Manager plans the deployment of resources, coordinates the project team, organizes the planning of project steps and work packages, and monitors their completion. The Project Manager reports internally and externally on the progress of the project and is the customer's first point of contact. They receive new requirements (change requests) and prepare offers. They organize and moderate the coordination with the customer, whom they also advise technically.\nWhat you'll do\nProject planning, including: Managing tasks and activities, monitoring dependencies in the individual tasks, and resource planning; regularly tracking deadlines, tasks and results together with the customer project manager\nMonitoring project progress, budget status, and key project targets; ensure the time schedule is met, project deliverables are achieved, and adhering to project budget.\nMonitoring target achievement; manage Change Requests.\nCreate detailed project plans, budgets, and process/support documentation for projects.\nManage complex project schedules and balance difficult conflicting priorities.\nReport on project status to both internal and external stakeholders.\nSpec out projects to assist sales and pre-sales teams with the preparation of proposals and contracts.\nIdentify and manage risks to ensure timely delivery of projects.\nIdentify and solve problems in a timely matter, when needed escalate issues to management and follow up to ensure issues are resolved.\nDraft and retain project documents so they are accessible to team members.\nMaintain SharePoint file organization, migration, and management for internal and external file collaborations.\nReview time entries for appropriate description of services performed.\nInvoicing and budget to actual reporting.\nPreparation of a weekly or monthly budget status report; support forecasting efforts.\nOrganize the handover from sales to the project team; planning and implementation of a kickoff with a customer.\nMonitor contract compliance and coordinate with customers.\nPlan and moderate project steering meetings.\nQualifications\n4+ years of project management and related experience in large software implementations or custom development, ideally in the Microsoft Dynamics product range.\nA Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, Certified Project Manager (CMP), or other related project management certification preferred, but not required.\nAdvanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.\nMastery of Microsoft Project or other project tools.\nExperience working within a technical team.\nExperience within an Agile environment.\nProject implementation and consulting experience.\nExperience working with remote/virtual teams.\nFamiliarity with project management tools, methodologies, and best practices.\nExperience with project management systems, scheduling, time entry, and billing.\nKnowledge of the book and magazine publishing industry and their workflows preferred.\nKnowledge of ERP software (functionalities, interrelationships).\nKnowledge of the work areas and processes in book and magazine publishing houses.\nExperience with JIRA preferred, but not required.\nHighly organized, detail oriented.\nAuthorization to work in the US/North America (Eastern time zone preferred).","description_format":"text","description_chars":3947,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Media & Entertainment","Business Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-10T23:15:26Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T02:13:49Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/business-software-ag-project-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/business-software-ag-project-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T02:13:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3176,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2522499},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2522499"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fbusiness-software-ag-project-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fbusiness-software-ag-project-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fbusiness-software-ag-project-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/business-software-ag-project-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fbusiness-software-ag-project-manager"}]}