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Project Manager roles at ZS sit at the intersection of consulting delivery and client engagement, requiring candidates who can manage cross-functional teams across life sciences and technology projects. ZS has a track record of sponsoring work visas for this function, making it a viable target for international candidates building a consulting career in the U.S.
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ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS. ZS's Program Management practice provides planning, delivery, and governance expertise to a wide range of clients. Our global organization is comprised of team-oriented, pragmatic, and results-driven people who thrive on solving challenging problems and driving the implementation of critical solutions. Our people come from diverse backgrounds, but share a passion for ensuring successful delivery of planned outcomes for our clients.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Technology Project Manager will be part of a client-facing team engaged in strategic initiatives. It is an integral part of the firm's strategy to build scalability and efficiently deliver program management capabilities. This role will partner with senior leadership and delivery teams to lead program planning and execution across various functions, driving programs to achieve mission-critical outcomes for our clients. The Sr. Consultant will integrate multiple stakeholders, complicated data dependencies, and intersecting workstreams across large-scale transformation projects. Critical factors to success in this role include program planning and execution, milestone tracking, financial management, SLA compliance, and benefits management.
Program Definition and Structure
- Partner with team and clients to drive program inception, defining tangible outcomes, scope, and prioritization; distilling workstreams and deliverables, and key metrics milestones, and success metrics.
- Translate business needs into actionable efforts and delivery roadmaps.
- Ensure end-to-end and cross-workstream understanding of the program objectives.
- Establish governance, roles and responsibilities, communications and reporting approach and cadence, and ways of working with client and ZS teams and leaders.
- Provide leadership to select, tailor, setup, and drive buy-in for a robust PMO framework for effective delivery and execution.
- Ensure that the delivery approach is realistic and optimized, and aligned with deal economics.
Program Planning
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution for large programs, with multiple projects or workstreams, including technology transformation, system implementation, digital enablement, and data/analytics initiatives.
- Program execution by leading program delivery for key strategic initiatives, drive the program efforts to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum.
- Identify areas of complexity within the program, and proactively engage with stakeholders to define success criteria and direction to address challenges, pivoting as needed to achieve successful outcomes.
- Participate and lead unstructured problem solving with the team and client on issues which arise during the course of a large program.
Program Execution
- Lead program delivery for key workstreams across strategic initiatives, drive the program activities to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum.
- Partner with senior program leaders and client stakeholders to plan, and lead key initiatives.
- Enables successful delivery of the client engagements.
- Continuously seeks areas of opportunities to improve project management practices and add value to teams.
- Conducts regular periodic meetings with all PMOs and project leads.
- Advise leadership and/or business leaders about the project portfolio, status and resource planning for delivering strategic business Initiatives.
- Manage PMO resource allocations and ensure that the scope and budget are in control.
- Ensures that project status, issues and successes are communicated and documented.
- Responsible for coordinating project review meetings with the PMO or project team and business review meetings with senior project and client leadership.
- Perform regular project performance updates (e.g., financials, utilization, SLA metrics).
- Responsible for PMO processes and tools (e.g., project charter, Decision Logs, ticket management system, issue management, communication and reporting, knowledge management, etc.).
- Manage and document any risk management processes, proactively identify and highlight risks and develop appropriate contingency plans or escalate as needed.
Team Management
- Lead junior PMO team members engaged in the program.
- Responsible for mentoring junior PMO team members and providing the direction required for meeting the project objectives.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Partner with senior program leaders and client stakeholders to plan, and lead key initiatives.
- Serve as a critical point of contact for project sponsors and leadership.
- Build a strong network and trusted relationships with key client stakeholders to foster long-term partnerships and future opportunities.
- Add value by incorporating best of the class practices, models, ideas.
- Engage with client counterparts on delivery or project management issues, including tools/processes that are jointly led by ZS and client.
- Work directly with client counterparts to update and share performance summaries (financials, utilization, SLA metrics) with key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the client team to set up meetings, workshops & seminars. Facilitate workshops, status meetings, executive updates, and decision-making forums.
- Partner with ZS PMO organization, and more broadly with ZS teams, to identify opportunities for follow on or adjacent engagements.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Graduate/post-graduate in any discipline with 6 to 10 years of relevant experience in Project Management.
- Prior experience with program and PMO activity for large business transformations, or implementation of Technology or Digital strategy; experience managing large PMO vertical and client accounts.
- Prior experience in a consulting or client-facing role is a must have; communication, facilitation, and executive presence are critical for success in the role.
- Life Science, Healthcare, or Pharma experience is preferred - Adjacent regulated industry delivery experience may also be considered.
- Experience in large scale transformation programs with multiple stakeholders, complicated data dependencies, intersecting workstreams, and project change management.
- Thorough understanding of project management phases, techniques, and tools & reporting.
- Strong proficiency and hands-on experience with project management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall and hybrid.
- Strong knowledge of PMI and Agile project management standards and PMI/PMP, Prince2, or SAFe/Agile certification desired.
- Strong understanding of projects KPIs and SLAs.
- Experience managing multiple projects at once and ensuring priority of issues and risks.
- Strong ability to implement project delivery processes, excellent oral and written communication skills, leadership skills and self-motivation, polished interpersonal skills, customer focus.
- Proactive, identifies opportunities/challenges and takes initiative.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and willing to roll up his/her sleeves to achieve project success, thrives on unstructured projects and problem-solving.
- Keen focus on running program management like a business, and ability to embrace and elevate program management in a client-facing, management consulting context.
- Fluency in English.
- Client-first mentality.
- Intense work ethic.
- Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways.
- Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities.
- Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions.
Hybrid working model:
ZS is committed to a Flexible and Connected way of working. ZSers are onsite at clients or ZS offices three days a week. Combined flexibility to work remotely two days a week is also available. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.
Perks & Benefits:
ZS offers a comprehensive total rewards package including health and well-being, financial planning, annual leave, personal growth and professional development. Our robust skills development programs, multiple career progression options and internal mobility paths, and collaborative culture empower you to thrive as an individual and global team member. We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and onsite presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.
Travel:
Travel is a requirement at ZS for client-facing ZSers; the business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.
Considering applying?
At ZS, we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are, and make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities and desire to learn are integral to your success here. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad variety of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Learn more about our inclusion and belonging efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces and obtaining the resources they need to thrive. If you’re eager to grow, contribute and bring your unique self to our work, we encourage you to apply. ZS is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities without regard to any class protected by applicable law.
To complete your application:
Candidates must possess or be able to obtain work authorization for their intended country of employment. An online application, including a full set of transcripts (official or unofficial), is required to be considered. NO AGENCY CALLS, PLEASE.
INTRODUCTION
ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS. ZS's Program Management practice provides planning, delivery, and governance expertise to a wide range of clients. Our global organization is comprised of team-oriented, pragmatic, and results-driven people who thrive on solving challenging problems and driving the implementation of critical solutions. Our people come from diverse backgrounds, but share a passion for ensuring successful delivery of planned outcomes for our clients.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Technology Project Manager will be part of a client-facing team engaged in strategic initiatives. It is an integral part of the firm's strategy to build scalability and efficiently deliver program management capabilities. This role will partner with senior leadership and delivery teams to lead program planning and execution across various functions, driving programs to achieve mission-critical outcomes for our clients. The Sr. Consultant will integrate multiple stakeholders, complicated data dependencies, and intersecting workstreams across large-scale transformation projects. Critical factors to success in this role include program planning and execution, milestone tracking, financial management, SLA compliance, and benefits management.
Program Definition and Structure
- Partner with team and clients to drive program inception, defining tangible outcomes, scope, and prioritization; distilling workstreams and deliverables, and key metrics milestones, and success metrics.
- Translate business needs into actionable efforts and delivery roadmaps.
- Ensure end-to-end and cross-workstream understanding of the program objectives.
- Establish governance, roles and responsibilities, communications and reporting approach and cadence, and ways of working with client and ZS teams and leaders.
- Provide leadership to select, tailor, setup, and drive buy-in for a robust PMO framework for effective delivery and execution.
- Ensure that the delivery approach is realistic and optimized, and aligned with deal economics.
Program Planning
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution for large programs, with multiple projects or workstreams, including technology transformation, system implementation, digital enablement, and data/analytics initiatives.
- Program execution by leading program delivery for key strategic initiatives, drive the program efforts to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum.
- Identify areas of complexity within the program, and proactively engage with stakeholders to define success criteria and direction to address challenges, pivoting as needed to achieve successful outcomes.
- Participate and lead unstructured problem solving with the team and client on issues which arise during the course of a large program.
Program Execution
- Lead program delivery for key workstreams across strategic initiatives, drive the program activities to ensure the program generates early traction and maintains forward momentum.
- Partner with senior program leaders and client stakeholders to plan, and lead key initiatives.
- Enables successful delivery of the client engagements.
- Continuously seeks areas of opportunities to improve project management practices and add value to teams.
- Conducts regular periodic meetings with all PMOs and project leads.
- Advise leadership and/or business leaders about the project portfolio, status and resource planning for delivering strategic business Initiatives.
- Manage PMO resource allocations and ensure that the scope and budget are in control.
- Ensures that project status, issues and successes are communicated and documented.
- Responsible for coordinating project review meetings with the PMO or project team and business review meetings with senior project and client leadership.
- Perform regular project performance updates (e.g., financials, utilization, SLA metrics).
- Responsible for PMO processes and tools (e.g., project charter, Decision Logs, ticket management system, issue management, communication and reporting, knowledge management, etc.).
- Manage and document any risk management processes, proactively identify and highlight risks and develop appropriate contingency plans or escalate as needed.
Team Management
- Lead junior PMO team members engaged in the program.
- Responsible for mentoring junior PMO team members and providing the direction required for meeting the project objectives.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Partner with senior program leaders and client stakeholders to plan, and lead key initiatives.
- Serve as a critical point of contact for project sponsors and leadership.
- Build a strong network and trusted relationships with key client stakeholders to foster long-term partnerships and future opportunities.
- Add value by incorporating best of the class practices, models, ideas.
- Engage with client counterparts on delivery or project management issues, including tools/processes that are jointly led by ZS and client.
- Work directly with client counterparts to update and share performance summaries (financials, utilization, SLA metrics) with key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with the client team to set up meetings, workshops & seminars. Facilitate workshops, status meetings, executive updates, and decision-making forums.
- Partner with ZS PMO organization, and more broadly with ZS teams, to identify opportunities for follow on or adjacent engagements.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Graduate/post-graduate in any discipline with 6 to 10 years of relevant experience in Project Management.
- Prior experience with program and PMO activity for large business transformations, or implementation of Technology or Digital strategy; experience managing large PMO vertical and client accounts.
- Prior experience in a consulting or client-facing role is a must have; communication, facilitation, and executive presence are critical for success in the role.
- Life Science, Healthcare, or Pharma experience is preferred - Adjacent regulated industry delivery experience may also be considered.
- Experience in large scale transformation programs with multiple stakeholders, complicated data dependencies, intersecting workstreams, and project change management.
- Thorough understanding of project management phases, techniques, and tools & reporting.
- Strong proficiency and hands-on experience with project management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall and hybrid.
- Strong knowledge of PMI and Agile project management standards and PMI/PMP, Prince2, or SAFe/Agile certification desired.
- Strong understanding of projects KPIs and SLAs.
- Experience managing multiple projects at once and ensuring priority of issues and risks.
- Strong ability to implement project delivery processes, excellent oral and written communication skills, leadership skills and self-motivation, polished interpersonal skills, customer focus.
- Proactive, identifies opportunities/challenges and takes initiative.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and willing to roll up his/her sleeves to achieve project success, thrives on unstructured projects and problem-solving.
- Keen focus on running program management like a business, and ability to embrace and elevate program management in a client-facing, management consulting context.
- Fluency in English.
- Client-first mentality.
- Intense work ethic.
- Collaborative spirit and problem-solving approach.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways.
- Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities.
- Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions.
Hybrid working model:
ZS is committed to a Flexible and Connected way of working. ZSers are onsite at clients or ZS offices three days a week. Combined flexibility to work remotely two days a week is also available. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.
Perks & Benefits:
ZS offers a comprehensive total rewards package including health and well-being, financial planning, annual leave, personal growth and professional development. Our robust skills development programs, multiple career progression options and internal mobility paths, and collaborative culture empower you to thrive as an individual and global team member. We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and onsite presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.
Travel:
Travel is a requirement at ZS for client-facing ZSers; the business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.
Considering applying?
At ZS, we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are, and make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities and desire to learn are integral to your success here. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad variety of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Learn more about our inclusion and belonging efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces and obtaining the resources they need to thrive. If you’re eager to grow, contribute and bring your unique self to our work, we encourage you to apply. ZS is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities without regard to any class protected by applicable law.
To complete your application:
Candidates must possess or be able to obtain work authorization for their intended country of employment. An online application, including a full set of transcripts (official or unofficial), is required to be considered. NO AGENCY CALLS, PLEASE.
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Frame your PMP or MBA credentials strategically
ZS evaluates Project Managers on both analytical rigor and client-facing communication. Certifications like PMP or an MBA with a quantitative focus strengthen your application and signal you can step into their consulting delivery model without a ramp-up period.
Target ZS postings that mention client delivery
ZS's Project Manager openings vary significantly by practice area. Roles tied to commercial operations or analytics delivery in life sciences are more consistently staffed through structured sponsorship pipelines than generalist openings, so prioritize those when applying.
Use Migrate Mate to filter ZS Project Manager openings by visa type
ZS sponsors multiple visa categories for this role. Migrate Mate lets you browse open Project Manager positions at ZS filtered by the specific visa type you hold, saving you from applying to roles where your status isn't supported.
Clarify LCA-covered work location before signing an offer
ZS operates across multiple U.S. office locations, and your Labor Condition Application filed with DOL is location-specific. Confirm which office your role is tied to before your offer is finalized, especially if relocation flexibility was discussed during interviews.
Prepare a delivery-focused work history for visa documentation
USCIS scrutinizes specialty occupation eligibility for consulting roles. Document your project management experience using scope, stakeholder complexity, and measurable outcomes rather than general responsibility statements to support a defensible H-1B petition.
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Does ZS sponsor H-1B visas for Project Managers?
Yes, ZS sponsors H-1B visas for Project Manager roles. The company has a documented history of filing H-1B petitions for this function, particularly in practice areas tied to life sciences and commercial consulting. If you're currently on OPT or transitioning from another employer's H-1B, ZS is a realistic sponsorship target for this role.
How do I apply for Project Manager jobs at ZS?
Apply directly through ZS's careers portal, where Project Manager openings are organized by practice area and location. Tailor your application to reflect consulting delivery experience relevant to ZS's core industries. Migrate Mate also lists ZS's open Project Manager roles filtered by visa sponsorship type, which helps you identify the right position before submitting.
Which visa types does ZS commonly use for Project Manager roles?
ZS sponsors H-1B visas for permanent full-time Project Manager hires and supports F-1 OPT and F-1 CPT for candidates in pre-employment or internship phases. TN status is also available for eligible Canadian and Mexican nationals. The right visa pathway depends on your current status, nationality, and the specific role you're applying to.
What qualifications does ZS expect from Project Manager candidates?
ZS typically looks for candidates with a bachelor's or advanced degree in a quantitative or business-related field, along with demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects in consulting or life sciences environments. Strong client communication skills, structured problem-solving, and familiarity with project delivery frameworks like Agile or waterfall are consistently reflected in their job postings.
How do I plan my timeline if ZS is sponsoring my H-1B?
If ZS extends you an offer and you're not yet in H-1B status, your start date needs to account for USCIS processing timelines. Cap-subject H-1B petitions can only be filed after the March registration window and have an October 1 earliest start date. Premium processing through USCIS can reduce adjudication time to roughly 15 business days, which ZS may offer depending on your situation.
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