Client Project Manager

What success looks like in this role:

Client Leadership & Executive Alignment

* Build trusted relationships with senior client leaders, executive sponsors, and key stakeholders.

* Serve as the senior connection between client priorities and Unisys account, delivery, service, and solution teams.

* Lead sponsor and governance discussions focused on priorities, performance, outcomes, risks, and decisions.

* Translate complex delivery, technical, operational, and commercial information into clear business implications, options, and recommendations.

* Anticipate client needs, address concerns early, and communicate with credibility, transparency, and sound judgment.

Program Delivery & Governance

* Lead complex projects and programs from initiation through implementation, transition, and closure.

* Establish governance, decision rights, reporting cadence, change control, escalation paths, and leadership forums.

* Manage integrated plans covering scope, milestones, resources, dependencies, financials, risks, quality, and client responsibilities.

* Coordinate multiple workstreams and teams while maintaining accountability for commitments, decisions, actions, and outcomes.

* Ensure changes to scope, requirements, or delivery expectations are evaluated, approved, documented, and reflected in program plans.

Performance, Risk & Commercial Management

* Drive delivery against approved scope, schedule, financial, quality, and business outcome expectations.

* Establish success criteria, assumptions, dependencies, acceptance requirements, and stakeholder responsibilities.

* Monitor performance, lead recovery planning, and challenge commitments that lack resources, validated assumptions, or credible plans.

* Maintain visibility into delivery, resource, dependency, commercial, supplier, and client risks; assign mitigation and contingency actions.

* Escalate material concerns promptly with business impact, options, recommendations, and decisions required.

* Understand applicable contracts, statements of work, pricing assumptions, acceptance requirements, and change-control processes.

* Monitor budgets, forecasts, utilization, revenue, margin, and financial risks, partnering with account leadership and finance to address variances.

* Lead through influence across account management, delivery, service, engineering, architecture, finance, sales, commercial, security, and operations.

* Clarify roles, responsibilities, dependencies, and decision points; align resources and priorities across workstreams.

* Create shared accountability, support timely problem-solving, and mentor project managers and delivery professionals.

* Identify unmet client needs and opportunities where Unisys capabilities may create additional value.

* Partner with account, sales, solution, and delivery leaders to qualify opportunities and support proposals, roadmaps, work orders, change requests, and executive presentations.

* Pursue growth responsibly, with clear client value, delivery capability, sponsorship, and commercial alignment.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Required Qualifications

*Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

* Eight or more years leading complex, customer-facing projects, programs, or service delivery initiatives involving multiple teams or workstreams.

* Experience working directly with senior client leaders, executive sponsors, and internal executives.

* Strong executive communication, presentation, planning, governance, financial management, risk, change, quality, and delivery capabilities.

* Demonstrated commercial and business acumen, including management of scope, contractual commitments, and financial considerations.

* Proven ability to lead through influence in a matrixed environment and resolve complex issues across organizational boundaries.

* Strong analytical, negotiation, facilitation, conflict-resolution, judgment, accountability, and composure under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications

* Master's degree, advanced relevant education, or a recognized project or program management certification.

* Experience with managed services, technology transformation, enterprise service delivery, multi-project portfolios, executive governance, commercial change management, or strategic client relationship development.

Leadership Competencies

Executive presence * Client focus * Strategic thinking * Commercial acumen * Influence and collaboration * Clear communication * Accountability * Risk leadership * Relationship management * Growth mindset

Measures of Success

* Strong client confidence, trusted executive relationships, and clear alignment between client priorities and Unisys execution.

* Predictable delivery against approved scope, schedule, financial, quality, and outcome commitments.

* Early identification and effective resolution of risks, dependencies, issues, and escalations.

* Decision-ready executive communication, effective governance, accountable follow-through, and disciplined commercial management.

* Continuous improvement in delivery and client experience, plus qualified opportunities that expand client value and the Unisys relationship.

Benefits

Unisys offers an outstanding benefits package, featuring unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) match, comprehensive healthcare, HSA matching, ongoing learning opportunities, and more! We're committed to supporting work-life balance and investing in your future success.

Video Interview

At Unisys, we incorporate video interviews as a key part of our hiring process. This allows us to get to know you better and provide a more engaging and convenient interview experience. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to connecting with you virtually!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Our commitment to an inclusive and accessible workplace

Unisys is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all individuals are treated with dignity and respect. We provide equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees without regard to legally protected characteristics or status, in accordance with applicable laws.

We value diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds and believe they strengthen our teams, our client relationships, and our ability to deliver meaningful business outcomes. Employment decisions are based on job-related qualifications, skills, experience, performance, and business needs.

Unisys is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and to supporting an accessible and inclusive recruiting and employment experience.

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