
Senior Project Manager
Schaumburg, ILFull-time$140–150K/yrPosted 1mo agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Senior Project Manager partners with Motorola Solutions’ Offer Management team to execute cross-functional strategic offers and deliver business results. The role manages complex initiatives, mentors junior project managers, builds data dashboards and reporting frameworks, and works closely with senior leaders and global stakeholders. It calls for strong project management, data analysis, communication, and stakeholder skills, with preferred experience in implementation services, telecommunications, radio communications, or aerospace and defense.
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Company Overview At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.
Department Overview The Offer Management team is responsible for the design, development, launch and maintenance of integrated Services and Products within the Motorola Solutions Portfolio. This includes bringing together all the industry leading products, services and software capabilities of Motorola Solutions to create the Offer Solution. The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for collaborating closely with the Offer Management team to drive cross-functional strategic offer execution, mentoring junior PM talent, building data dashboards using advanced metrics and AI tooling, and navigating key stakeholder relationships to deliver critical business results. Job Description The ideal candidate is an experienced professional who bridges the gap between high-level business strategy and tactical execution, has a strong grasp of macro business outcomes, and has a natural ability to coach and mentor junior talent. You are a data-first professional who leverages modern tooling—including advanced data analytics and AI execution—to build robust reporting frameworks and dashboards. You are highly comfortable interacting with senior leaders and thrive in an environment that rewards critical thinking, adaptability, and continuous learning.
Strategic Execution & Leadership
- Manage complex, cross-functional initiatives from inception to delivery, ensuring tight alignment with overarching business goals and ROI.
- Champion PMO methodologies, continuously refining processes, governance, and templates to increase organizational velocity and maturity.
- Anticipate project risks and bottlenecks, proactively developing mitigation strategies before they impact business operations.
Team Mentorship & Coaching
- Act as a core mentor to junior PMs, accelerating their professional development and upgrading the team’s collective execution capabilities.
- Conduct process and framework reviews for the broader team, ensuring high standards of project management hygiene across all workstreams.
Advanced Data, Metrics & Reporting
- Design, build, and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and operational metrics that provide leadership with clear, actionable insights.
- Utilize advanced data manipulation techniques within Google Sheets, writing complex formulas and leveraging AI tools (e.g., LLMs, advanced data analysis prompts) to optimize data structures and automate reporting workflows.
- Translate dense project data into high-level strategic narratives for executive consumption.
Executive Stakeholder Management
- Serve as a trusted partner to senior leadership, confidently presenting project statuses, risk profiles, and strategic recommendations.
- Navigate ambiguous, high-stakes situations with emotional intelligence, discretion, and a constant focus on business impact.
Project Management
- Demonstrate best practices for developing and managing schedules and understand risks, interdependencies and the critical path.
- Collaborate with global stakeholders (internal and external) to obtain buy-in, resolve conflicts and drive successful delivery of projects.
- Manages expectations of project stakeholders with timely communication/escalation of risks/issues, their impact, and mitigation/corrective actions.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
- 7+ years of progressive project/program management experience, preferably with experience in Service - Implementation, Telecommunications, Radio Communications, or Aerospace/Defense preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or similar is preferred.
- Demonstrated competency with a project management tool (e.g. MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet).
- Deep understanding of how project deliverables impact the broader business operations, P&L, and strategic objectives.
- Advanced expertise in Google Sheets (complex formulas, nested functions, data modelling) combined with a demonstrated ability to use AI tools to augment and accelerate technical workflows.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to command a room, influence stakeholders, and mentor junior peers.
- An insatiable appetite for learning new technologies, methodologies, and business domains.
- Highly organized, structured, and process oriented; team building skills a plus.
- Certified PMP preferred and Agile/Scrum Certification an advantage.
Target Base Salary Range: $140,000-$150,000
Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.
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Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and 7+ years of Project Management experience.
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.
Travel Requirements Under 10% Relocation Provided None Position Type Experienced Referral Payment Plan Yes Our U.S. Benefits include:
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Incentive Bonus Plans
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Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
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401K with Company Match
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10 Paid Holidays
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Generous Paid Time Off Packages
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Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Paid Parental & Family Leave
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and more!
EEO Statement
Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.
We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.
How this job compares
Set against the 22,242 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$140–150K/yr
- Illinois median$105–161K/yr522 salary ranges
- US median$108–174K/yr14,195 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $145K, is 8% above the Illinois median midpoint ($134K) — in the middle half of Project Manager salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 645 open Project Manager jobs in Illinois and 22,242 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (19,079 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 11,452 of the 22,242 open Project Manager jobs (51%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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