Project Lead Jobs in Kentucky

Job Level: W2T Consultant
Job Location: Hybrid in Louisville, KY (4 days onsite per week)
Travel Expectations: 10%
Job Classification: Temporary (W2T)

Join Centric Consulting – A Culture You’ll Love

At Centric Consulting, we've cultivated a unique approach to business. Our business is built on three fundamental principles: Enjoy the people you work with, have fun, and do great work. These principles define our consulting model and have crafted one of the most vibrant cultures in the consulting industry – celebrating individuals, collaboration, and lifelong friendships. This role serves as a senior delivery leader responsible for driving a large-scale transformation program spanning multiple internal teams and external partners. The position combines program leadership, project management, and business analysis to deliver modern technology solutions that replace legacy systems, processes, and data capabilities. The Senior Project Manager will lead execution across multiple workstreams using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches, ensuring alignment to strategic objectives, timelines, and business outcomes.

In this role, you will:

Program & Project Leadership:

- Lead complex, multi-workstream transformation initiatives, including modernization of applications, processes, and data platforms
- Own and manage the integrated program plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and key decision points
- Drive execution against scope, schedule, and business outcomes

Delivery Execution (Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid):

- Establish and lead delivery frameworks across teams using Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Waterfall, or hybrid models
- Facilitate core delivery cadences (e.g., sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, status reporting)
- Ensure consistent use of delivery artifacts such as backlogs, work plans, and milestone tracking

Business & Technology Alignment:

- Partner with business stakeholders and business analysts to elicit, refine, and validate requirements
- Challenge current-state processes and drive future-state design aligned to business goals
- Translate business needs into scalable technology and application solutions

Stakeholder Management & Executive Communication:

- Provide clear, executive-ready updates on status, risks, issues, decisions, and next steps
- Build strong relationships across senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
- Facilitate working sessions to drive alignment, decisions, and issue resolution

Program Governance & Delivery Health:

- Maintain core project governance tools (RAID logs, dependency tracking, integrated schedules, decision logs)
- Ensure transparency of delivery health, tradeoffs, and impacts across stakeholders
- Coordinate cross-team execution and drive timely issue resolution and escalation

Implementation & Go-Live Readiness:

- Lead cutover planning, deployment coordination, and release communications
- Ensure readiness for go-live and oversee post-implementation stabilization (hypercare)

Change Leadership:

- Support organizational change management efforts across all workstreams
- Act as a change agent, driving adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working

Who You Are:

- 10+ years of experience in IT or technology-related project/program management
- Proven leadership of large-scale, multi-year transformation programs involving legacy modernization
- Experience managing cross-functional teams across business, IT, and external partners
- Strong executive stakeholder management, including delivery of clear, concise communications
- Demonstrated experience delivering projects using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams)
- Experience with ERP systems and data/BI platforms
- Hands-on experience with project management tools (e.g., Monday.com, Azure Boards, Jira, or similar)

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- PMP certification (preferred)

Key Competencies

- Strong business process redesign and systems thinking capability
- Excellent communication and executive presence
- Ability to influence without authority across diverse teams
- Advanced facilitation and decision-driving skills
- Strong leadership and team coordination skills
- Self-starter with a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset

Why This Role Stands Out

- High-visibility transformation work with direct engagement at the leadership level
- Opportunity to modernize core enterprise systems and processes
- Exposure to both business strategy and technology delivery

Total Rewards:

We proudly offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive and well-rounded benefits package for full-time employees that have been designed to nourish your well-being, such as health coverage, wellness programs, 401K company match, self-managed PTO, and other unique incentives that celebrate your accomplishments.
- Remote and Hybrid Work
- Time Off When You Need It
- Benefits That Flex
- Professional Development

While benefits eligibility may vary for roles that are not full-time, we provide unique opportunities for growth, skill development, and more. Regardless of your role, you’ll be part of a collaborative environment where every team member contributes to our shared success. Discover more about our benefits by exploring additional details here benefits.

Who We Are:

Founded in 1999 with a remote workforce, we combine the benefits of experience, flexibility, and cost efficiency to create tailored solutions centered on what’s best for businesses. Now numbering more than 1,400 employees in the U.S. and India, we’re committed to solving clients’ toughest problems and delivering on our mission of providing unmatched experiences.

Our purpose at Centric Consulting is to bring unmatched experiences to clients and employees. These aren't just words we use — it's how we became a company and who we are today. Providing an unmatched experience means we approach each other as human beings and lead with empathy and humility. It means we work diligently to ensure we are a place where everyone can create a sense of belonging and feel respected for who they are.

What Makes Centric a Great Place to Work?

We know that creating and sustaining an authentically welcoming culture requires that we all play a part in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, from our business practice to how we show up for employees and communities. This is how we bring our mission and core values to life, working together to provide the highest quality services to our clients while allowing our employees to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. 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.

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 application or interview process.