IT Project Manager V

Location: Rosemead, CA - Hybrid (Onsite Tuesday/Wednesday)
Duration: 18-month contract

About the Role

Our client, a large regulated utility, is seeking an IT Project Manager V to own and operate an integrated technology portfolio spanning multiple workstreams. This role sits at the intersection of business and IT, driving portfolio-level planning, financial reconciliation, risk and governance discipline, and executive-ready reporting. The successful candidate will design and run a durable operating model—including RACI, governance calendar, and escalation paths—while coordinating closely with the organization's existing PMO structure, without taking over product or workstream delivery accountability.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated portfolio workplan, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, stage-gate readiness, and ownership.
• Consolidate baseline budget, forecast, actuals, contingency, and variance explanations; reconcile the Customer Service view with IT reporting.
• Maintain integrated risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, and changes with owners, dates, escalation thresholds, and aging.
• Prepare weekly and monthly portfolio rollups and concise, decision-ready materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Operate governance, intake, and change control for additions, descopes, pauses, and reprioritization.
• Coordinate vendor and contract oversight across Customer Service, IT, Finance, Procurement, and delivery partners.
• Design and maintain the operating model, RACI, governance calendar, escalation paths, and boundary with the organization's existing PMO.
• Support business and IT project-lead pairings without taking over product or workstream delivery accountability.
• Create a durable PMO package with templates, cadence, decision history, and handoff instructions.
• Apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of IT system investments.
• Meet with decision makers, systems owners, and end users to define business, financial, and operations requirements and systems goals.
• Identify and resolve systems issues in support of portfolio delivery.

Requirements

• Ownership of an integrated portfolio with at least three meaningful technology workstreams.
• Joint business and IT PMO experience.
• Portfolio financial management, forecasting, reconciliation, and value tracking.
• Risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change-control discipline.
• Executive communication that converts complexity into clear decisions, consequences, and next steps.
• Multi-vendor technology-transformation experience.
• Ability to drive closure across senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Comfort with hybrid agile and stage-gated governance.
• Credible examples or sanitized work samples of integrated plans, executive reporting, financial rollups, or decision governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant business or technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Three to five years of relevant experience.

Desired Skills

• Utility or other regulated-industry experience.
• Customer-service technology experience, including conversational AI, contact-center platforms, billing, collections, SAP, or related systems.
• Experience mobilizing a new PMO and leaving a sustainable operating model.
• Familiarity with enterprise portfolio tools and governance forums comparable to a large utility environment.
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on artifact creation.

Pay

$112.50–$118.50/hr

Schedule

Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM