Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions — Information Security

Location: New Brunswick, NJ (Hybrid – 3 days onsite in a week)

Position Type: Contract position

Responsibilities:

• Lead information security activities across the full A&D project lifecycle, from due diligence and pre-close planning through integration, separation, and post-close execution.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
• Coordinate work across security, infrastructure, application, legal, privacy, records management, eDiscovery, business, and third-party teams.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, daily stand-ups, and leadership reviews.
• Establish clear ownership, deadlines, escalation paths, and decision points.
• Identify delivery risks early and drive timely mitigation or escalation.
• Prepare concise status reports, executive summaries, meeting notes, dashboards, and decision materials.
• Track security requirements and deliverables against transaction and business milestones.
• Support consistent project governance, documentation, and reporting across the A&D portfolio.
• Use AI and automation tools appropriately to improve planning, analysis, documentation, and reporting.
• Adapt quickly as deal scope, priorities, timelines, and requirements change.

Required Qualifications:

• At least eight years of project management experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, or ISRM & Cyber Security activities.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional IT projects.
• Strong knowledge of project management practices, including scope, schedule, dependency, risk, issue, action, and stakeholder management.
• Experience working as a project manager, Scrum Master, or delivery lead in Agile, hybrid, or traditional environments.
• Strong leadership, facilitation, written communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain control of multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and common project collaboration and reporting tools.
• Practical understanding of generative AI, its business applications, and the controls needed for responsible use.
• Ability to understand information security terminology, processes, and requirements without serving as the technical subject-matter expert.
• Sound judgment, attention to detail, and a consistent record of follow-through.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP, or other accreditations
• Previous experience with cybersecurity, information security risk management, privacy, compliance, or technology integration.
• Familiarity with security assessments, identity and access management, infrastructure separation, data transfer, application disposition, third-party risk, and post-close remediation.
• Experience developing portfolio dashboards, executive reporting, or automated project-management workflows.