Project Manager, Enterprise Solutions
Company: Dickinson Wright Professional Staff
Location: Clawson
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Summary : Staff designated at Dickinson Wright PLLC (“the Firm”)
as Project Manager, Enterprise Solutions will play a critical role
in advancing the firm’s strategic goals by ensuring effective
project management practices across the organization. This role
will lead and deliver enterprise systems projects—such as system
upgrades, system implementations, and cross-functional initiatives
involving multiple teams and integrated systems—to improve
reliability, security, scalability, and overall user experience.
This role resides in the Enterprise Project Management Office
(EPMO), but interacts with key stakeholders across the Firm.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Essential duties and
responsibilities of staff designated as Project Manager, Enterprise
Solutions at the Firm include but are not limited to: Project
Leadership & Execution Define project scope, goals, deliverables,
and success metrics in collaboration with stakeholders. Develop
detailed project plans, timelines, resource allocations, and
budgets. Develop and maintain tools and dashboards to provide
real-time visibility into project status, milestones, and KPIs for
key stakeholders and leadership. Lead cross-functional project
teams, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability.
Monitor project progress and proactively manage risks, issues, and
changes in scope. Ensure timely and effective communication with
stakeholders at all levels, including regular status updates and
executive reporting. Enterprise Platform Project Delivery Lead
end-to-end project management for enterprise-wide projects (e.g.,
core application upgrades, new system implementations,
infrastructure/software lifecycle refreshes), from initiation
through execution and post-implementation review in predictive,
hybrid, and agile environments Partner with IT and business
stakeholders to define requirements, dependency maps, cutover
approaches, support models, and success measures for enterprise
systems. Coordinate across internal teams (e.g., IT Infrastructure,
Innovation & Data Strategy, Legal Operations, Accounting & Finance,
HR, Marketing) and external vendors to deliver integrated solutions
with minimal business disruption. Manage vendor and system
integrator activities, including project governance, milestone
acceptance, RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), and
deliverable quality controls. Plan and execute implementation
activities including environment readiness, data conversion (as
applicable), integrations, testing coordination, training
readiness, go-live support, and transition to operations.
Governance, Risk, and Integrated Systems Delivery Establish and run
project governance routines (steering committee cadence, decision
logs, change control) for complex, cross-functional enterprise-wide
platform initiatives. Identify and manage cross-system and
cross-team dependencies, including integration points, sequencing
constraints, and release scheduling. Maintain clear documentation
of project artifacts (charters, plans, schedules, testing plans,
cutover plans, runbooks) to support auditability and operational
handoff. Change Management and Adoption Develop and execute change
management plans to support user adoption of new tools and
processes. Provide training, documentation, and support to end
users and stakeholders. Measure and report on adoption rates and
project impact. Support continuous improvement measures of the
EPMO’s processes, policies and systems. Qualifications, Skills and
Abilities Required: Project Manager, Enterprise Solutions must
have: Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business
Administration, Project Management, or a related field and/or a
minimum of 5 years of experience in project management, with a
focus on legal or professional services environment. Demonstrated
experience delivering enterprise system implementations/upgrades
with integrated systems, multiple workstreams, and formal
cutover/go-live planning. Self-motivated individual able to
independently manage multiple requests, assess priorities and
achieve solutions in accordance with deadlines. Experience in
aligning teams, managing relationships, and being a servant leader
to help achieve team goals. Advanced organizational skills,
including the ability to manage a high volume of work with accuracy
and attention to detail. Exceptional communication and
interpersonal skills at all levels within an organization and the
ability to build and maintain effective relationships with
attorneys, clients and staff. Ability to think strategically,
prioritize effectively, and make decisions in a fast-paced
environment. Strong understanding of project management
methodologies (e.g., Agile, Predictive) and tools (e.g.,
Smartsheet, MS Project, Microsoft Teams, Asana, JIRA). Willingness
to pursue relevant certifications such as PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, or
CMPAI (Certified Manager of Process Automation and Innovation), if
not already held. Working Conditions: Normal law office environment
with little exposure to noise, dust, temperature. This is a remote
position. Applicants should reside within driving distance of a
Dickinson Wright location. Travel requirement: less than 5% travel
to Dickinson Wright offices The above is intended to describe the
general content of and requirements for the performance of this
job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of
essential functions, responsibilities or requirements. We are an
equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for
employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or
disability status.
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