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Are you energized by guiding teams to deliver outstanding results? Do you thrive on optimizing business processes and driving efficiency through agile methodologies? Does it get you excited to see your leadership turn strategic visions into real, actionable outcomes?

If this sounds like you, Torq is the place to be! We're on the lookout for skilled agile project management professionals who are ready to make a significant impact on our clients' businesses. Our team tackles challenging projects daily, addressing our clients' toughest challenges, and we need passionate leaders to join us.

In this role, you won't just be managing timelines and resources. We want individuals who can navigate the entire project lifecycle, from planning to execution, ensuring that our teams deliver high-quality results that drive real business value. We're looking for leaders who can inspire teams and demonstrate the incredible impact that effective project management can achieve.

What You Could Be Doing:

While every project we work on is different, below is a high-level overview of some of the responsibilities/hats you may wear while in our Transform practice:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders from sales, marketing, product, and operations teams to document project requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Work cross-functionally with IT and digital teams to identify and implement efficient solutions that meet project goals.
• Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards through thorough planning, risk management, and adherence to best practices.
• Develop and track KPIs and metrics that add business value, providing clear insights and actionable recommendations to stakeholders.
• Simplify complex project details into a compelling narrative that can be effectively communicated to stakeholders, including high-level executives and leaders.
• Support business development initiatives by identifying client needs, contributing to proposals, and participating in sales presentations to drive new opportunities.

• Minimum of a 4-year degree
• Ideally 4+ years in Consulting, Project Management, Marketing, Business Management, or a related field
• Willingness to work a hybrid schedule (typically 2-3 days in office)
• Ability to understand and assess our client's business challenges including underlying gaps and areas of opportunity.
• Proficient in listening to understand the root of our client's problems in order to propose actionable solutions
• Communicate findings, recommendations, and progress to clients clearly and effectively, often through presentations and reports
• Ability to manage in an environment of ambiguity with diverse stakeholders
• Facilitate regular updates and feedback sessions with clients to ensure alignment and address any concerns.

• Experience with project management tools like Microsoft Project, Jira, Trello, or Asana.
• Experience in developing and managing project timelines, budgets, and resource allocations.
• Experience with risk management and mitigation strategies.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, or other project management methodologies is a plus.
• Strong understanding of stakeholder management and communication strategies.
• Working knowledge of project documentation, reporting, and presentation tools such as PowerPoint, Confluence, and Excel.
• Ability to navigate complex enterprise environments and familiarity with collaboration tools and platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Zoom.
• Ability to deliver high quality materials including project/product plans, release/launch plans, progress trackers, risk/issue logs, dashboards, meeting materials/minutes, UAT results, internal/external communication, executive report outs, etc.

• Competitive Salary - your bank account will be smiling
• Unlimited PTO - we're serious about that work-life balance thing
• Best-in-class health/vision/dental benefits - your health is our priority
• Generous 401K options - take care of your future with us
• Paid Parental Leave - supporting you during life's biggest milestones
• Opportunity to be a key player at a highly reputable, fast-growing consulting firm
• High degree of internal mobility and diverse project opportunities

Why you'll LOVE Sagent:

You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. A place where you will make a difference and have a great time doing it!

By choosing Sagent, you can be part of our mission to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for all consumers.

Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!

About the Opportunity:

This is an excellent position for a person who enjoys driving complex efforts and organizing and managing multiple resources that need to come together in service of a larger goal: successfully delivering technology-driven transformation value to customers and shortening customers' time to realizing that value.

As an Implementation Project Manager Sr, you will be responsible for documenting go-live plans for our servicing SaaS solutions and products. You will work hand-in-hand with the VP Implementation Strategy to develop end-to-end implementation plans that align with the defined implementation strategy. You will work closely with multiple internal Sagent teams and external Sagent Customers to create and execute on detailed project plans that directly affect and ensure successful implementations.

Your day-to-day at Sagent:

• Lead assigned implementation projects to deliver scope on time and within budget
• Work with the Customer and Sagent's product stakeholders to identify everything needed to create macro (milestone) and micro (task) level project plans for product implementations
• Drive the implementation process from kick-off with the customer through go-live and transition to steady state - this will require working across teams, leading via influence, proactively finding ways to move impediments, surfacing blockers as needed, and driving progress to meet critical path milestones
• Analyze and determine customers' implementation and system usage needs as related to customer's business processes and coordinate with customer, third party vendors, and internal Sagent teams to ensure successful product implementation and adoption
• Execute principal project management activities including:
  • Providing schedule management by creating and maintaining an effort-driven project schedule for each project by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, resources, task and cross-plan dependencies, and critical path
  • Controlling and tracking project performance, time allocations, cost, quality and overall delivery (includes evaluating project progress, and conducting regular team status meetings)
  • Providing issue and risk management by anticipating and identifying issues and risks that may impact deliverables while developing and owning / driving all mitigation and corrective actions
  • Monitoring and reporting on the status of project efforts including time reporting, resource forecasting, executive reporting, issue management and risk prevention/mitigation
  • Establishing scope that ensures the project remains focused on key objectives, goals, tasks and critical path for one or more projects
• Develop and manage project expectations ensuring all applicable functional areas are engaged on the projects
• Provide training, consultation and support to the client before, during and immediately after new client, existing client & new vendor implementation / conversion efforts
• Perform other related duties and process improvement projects as requested by management

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or relevant discipline with 4 - 6 years of experience in a related field. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and / or Certified Scrum Master is beneficial but not required
• Familiarity with the financial/mortgage services industry, preferable within a financial institution or fintech company
• Demonstrated effectiveness in a program or project management role where technology is used to transform business processes or functions
• Ability to apply lessons learned from prior projects or programs to continuously improve implementation services planning and delivery
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and best practices
• Strong organizational, problem-solving aptitude and time management skills with ability to manage multiple tasks and multiple projects (including attention to details and multi-tasking skills)
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with all levels of staff and management
• Expertise with MS Project, ServiceNow Projects and/or other project planning software
• Demonstrated experience in project management and customer onboarding.
• Familiarity with SaaS-based solutions and financial technology.
• Ability to provide guidance and support to a team.
• Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to customer success.
• 25%-50% Travel required if not located in Dallas.

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Come join our award winning 10,000 strong organization as we fuel the world and each other! This position comes with world class compensation, benefits, 401(k) match, profit sharing, and PTO. Summary Looking for an experienced Project Analyst to join the Business Systems team. The group supports an everchanging organization with a fast growing SAP footprint and is looking for an energetic yet highly skilled individual that can lead a variety of SAP projects to completion. 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Why you'll LOVE Sagent:

You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. A place where you will make a difference and have a great time doing it!

By choosing Sagent, you can be part of our mission to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for all consumers.

Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!

About the Opportunity:

This is an excellent position for a person who enjoys driving complex efforts and organizing and managing multiple resources that need to come together in service of a larger goal: successfully delivering technology-driven transformation value to customers and shortening customers' time to realizing that value.

As an Implementation Project Manager Sr, you will be responsible for documenting go-live plans for our servicing SaaS solutions and products. You will work hand-in-hand with the VP Implementation Strategy to develop end-to-end implementation plans that align with the defined implementation strategy. You will work closely with multiple internal Sagent teams and external Sagent Customers to create and execute on detailed project plans that directly affect and ensure successful implementations.

Your day-to-day at Sagent:

• Lead assigned implementation projects to deliver scope on time and within budget
• Work with the Customer and Sagent's product stakeholders to identify everything needed to create macro (milestone) and micro (task) level project plans for product implementations
• Drive the implementation process from kick-off with the customer through go-live and transition to steady state - this will require working across teams, leading via influence, proactively finding ways to move impediments, surfacing blockers as needed, and driving progress to meet critical path milestones
• Analyze and determine customers' implementation and system usage needs as related to customer's business processes and coordinate with customer, third party vendors, and internal Sagent teams to ensure successful product implementation and adoption
• Execute principal project management activities including:
  • Providing schedule management by creating and maintaining an effort-driven project schedule for each project by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, resources, task and cross-plan dependencies, and critical path
  • Controlling and tracking project performance, time allocations, cost, quality and overall delivery (includes evaluating project progress, and conducting regular team status meetings)
  • Providing issue and risk management by anticipating and identifying issues and risks that may impact deliverables while developing and owning / driving all mitigation and corrective actions
  • Monitoring and reporting on the status of project efforts including time reporting, resource forecasting, executive reporting, issue management and risk prevention/mitigation
  • Establishing scope that ensures the project remains focused on key objectives, goals, tasks and critical path for one or more projects
• Develop and manage project expectations ensuring all applicable functional areas are engaged on the projects
• Provide training, consultation and support to the client before, during and immediately after new client, existing client & new vendor implementation / conversion efforts
• Perform other related duties and process improvement projects as requested by management

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or relevant discipline with 4 - 6 years of experience in a related field. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and / or Certified Scrum Master is beneficial but not required
• Familiarity with the financial/mortgage services industry, preferable within a financial institution or fintech company
• Demonstrated effectiveness in a program or project management role where technology is used to transform business processes or functions
• Ability to apply lessons learned from prior projects or programs to continuously improve implementation services planning and delivery
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and best practices
• Strong organizational, problem-solving aptitude and time management skills with ability to manage multiple tasks and multiple projects (including attention to details and multi-tasking skills)
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with all levels of staff and management
• Expertise with MS Project, ServiceNow Projects and/or other project planning software
• Demonstrated experience in project management and customer onboarding.
• Familiarity with SaaS-based solutions and financial technology.
• Ability to provide guidance and support to a team.
• Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to customer success.
• 25%-50% Travel required if not located in Dallas.

Why you'll LOVE Sagent:

You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. A place where you will make a difference and have a great time doing it!

By choosing Sagent, you can be part of our mission to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for all consumers.

Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!

About the Opportunity:

This is an excellent position for a person who enjoys driving complex efforts and organizing and managing multiple resources that need to come together in service of a larger goal: successfully delivering technology-driven transformation value to customers and shortening customers' time to realizing that value.

As an Implementation Project Manager Sr, you will be responsible for documenting go-live plans for our servicing SaaS solutions and products. You will work hand-in-hand with the VP Implementation Strategy to develop end-to-end implementation plans that align with the defined implementation strategy. You will work closely with multiple internal Sagent teams and external Sagent Customers to create and execute on detailed project plans that directly affect and ensure successful implementations.

Your day-to-day at Sagent:

• Lead assigned implementation projects to deliver scope on time and within budget
• Work with the Customer and Sagent's product stakeholders to identify everything needed to create macro (milestone) and micro (task) level project plans for product implementations
• Drive the implementation process from kick-off with the customer through go-live and transition to steady state - this will require working across teams, leading via influence, proactively finding ways to move impediments, surfacing blockers as needed, and driving progress to meet critical path milestones
• Analyze and determine customers' implementation and system usage needs as related to customer's business processes and coordinate with customer, third party vendors, and internal Sagent teams to ensure successful product implementation and adoption
• Execute principal project management activities including:
  
  • Providing schedule management by creating and maintaining an effort-driven project schedule for each project by identifying and monitoring: overall project timeline, project milestones, tasks, resources, task and cross-plan dependencies, and critical path
  • Controlling and tracking project performance, time allocations, cost, quality and overall delivery (includes evaluating project progress, and conducting regular team status meetings)
  • Providing issue and risk management by anticipating and identifying issues and risks that may impact deliverables while developing and owning / driving all mitigation and corrective actions
  • Monitoring and reporting on the status of project efforts including time reporting, resource forecasting, executive reporting, issue management and risk prevention/mitigation
  • Establishing scope that ensures the project remains focused on key objectives, goals, tasks and critical path for one or more projects
  
  
  
  
• Develop and manage project expectations ensuring all applicable functional areas are engaged on the projects
• Provide training, consultation and support to the client before, during and immediately after new client, existing client & new vendor implementation / conversion efforts
• Perform other related duties and process improvement projects as requested by management

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or relevant discipline with 4 - 6 years of experience in a related field. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and / or Certified Scrum Master is beneficial but not required
• Familiarity with the financial/mortgage services industry, preferable within a financial institution or fintech company
• Demonstrated effectiveness in a program or project management role where technology is used to transform business processes or functions
• Ability to apply lessons learned from prior projects or programs to continuously improve implementation services planning and delivery
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and best practices
• Strong organizational, problem-solving aptitude and time management skills with ability to manage multiple tasks and multiple projects (including attention to details and multi-tasking skills)
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills with all levels of staff and management
• Expertise with MS Project, ServiceNow Projects and/or other project planning software
• Demonstrated experience in project management and customer onboarding.
• Familiarity with SaaS-based solutions and financial technology.
• Ability to provide guidance and support to a team.
• Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to customer success.
• 25%-50% Travel required if not located in Dallas.

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Perks!

As a Sagent Associate, you will be eligible to participate in our benefit programs beginning on Day #1! We offer a comprehensive package including Remote/Hybrid workplace options, Health Benefits, Unlimited Flexible Time Off, Family Planning Services, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Family Leave, 401(k) Matching, Pet Insurance, In-person and Virtual Social Experiences, Career Pathing, Focus Time Fridays and much, much more!

Why Sagent?

Sagent is transforming the mortgage servicing industry by bringing the modern experience customers now expect from loan originations to loan servicing. Our platform lets customers manage their home-owing lives from anywhere while giving servicers lower costs, scale compliance and higher servicing values through full market cycles.

Sagent is a joint venture that combines Fiserv Inc.'s decades of market-leading fintech expertise with Warburg Pincus' skill in growing technology companies. We hire innovators and doers to disrupt the last and most complex frontier of lending and housing. We're growing fast and need you to help shape our future.

Sagent is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationalorigin, disability or protected veteran status.

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About Us

Blank Rome is an Am Law 100 firm with 16 offices and nearly 750 attorneys who provide comprehensive legal and advocacy services to clients operating in the United States and around the world. Our professionals have built a reputation for their leading knowledge and experience across a spectrum of industries and are recognized for their commitment to pro bono work in their communities. Since our inception in 1946, Blank Romes culture has been dedicated to providing top-level service to all of our clients and has been rooted in the strength of our diversity and inclusion initiatives. Our commitment to our core values and dedication to providing a supportive and inclusive work environment, allows the firm to attract and retain the brightest in the industry.

Job Overview

The Legal Project Management Specialist LPM Specialist is a key contributor in the Innovation and Value Department, creating, tracking, and reporting on alternative fee arrangements and matter budget progress.

The LPM Specialist will collaborate with the Client Value and Client Solutions teams, client relationship attorneys and other attorneys to ensure that matter budgets align with firm expectations, provide timely status and tracking analyses and recommendations if arrangements exceed agreed upon scope. The LPM Specialist supports the firms matter management tool stack and serves as the day-to-day lead of the firms budget management tool.

In collaboration with Legal Project Manager(s) and the Senior Practice Innovation and Client Solutions Manager, the LPM Specialist develops best practices and evaluates new solutions to enhance the firms matter and budget management capabilities. This position offers the opportunity to build expertise in legal project management tools while contributing directly to client satisfaction and firm profitability through insightful data analysis and thoughtful budget development.

This role has a hybrid working arrangement. Potential candidates must live within commuting distance of our Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or Dallas office. In this role, you will report to the Legal Project Manager.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with the Client Value and Client Solutions team and attorneys to scope, analyze comparable data and develop compelling client budget proposals.
• Lead implementation of approved budgets into the firms budget management application; serving as the subject matter expert on the dashboard and managing implementation of new features and updates.
• Utilize the firms financial alerting system to establish budget alerts for matters, consulting with the Legal Project Manager as needed to escalate budget issues.
• Collaborate with attorneys to track legal budgets including, but not limited to tracking actions, staffing, timelines, deliverables, assumptions, and escalating activities when there are material changes in scope or status.
• Learn and apply knowledge of legal project management tools and systems (e.g., Clocktimizer, Iridium, BigHand).
• Work with the Legal Project Manager, attorneys, and clients to define requirements and develop custom budget reporting for external client portals.
• Prepare and manage financial and client status reports, as required.
• Collaborate to automate the firms legal project management workflow and task/phase code groupings, including the creation of dashboards to create and update matter budgets, view matter status reports, and search historical data for future matter planning.
• Assist in the development and proliferation of best practices, tools, budget templates, and reference materials across the firms client portfolio.
• Support effective communication strategies on projects/matters that foster a collaborative approach between project workstreams including between our lawyers and our clients.
• Support post project review and post-mortem assessments and recommend process improvements as appropriate.
• Build relationships and foster a collaborative approach when working with clients and across all departments.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
• Work additional hours as needed to fulfill job requirements.

The above essential functions represent the general nature and level of responsibilities for this position and is not intended to be an all-inclusive list. The firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion.

Skills/Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in positions requiring strong project and budget management skills.
• Law firm or professional service organization experience is required.
• Client facing experience is a plus.
• Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, management, or other related business function.
• Strong technical skills, including advanced Excel skills (including use of vertical and horizontal lookups, macros, pivot tables and modeling) and a high level of proficiency in Word and PowerPoint required.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Experience in using data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau or Power BI) is strongly desired.
• Proficient with pivot tables and data cubes, and an understanding of relational databases.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to develop positive working relationships (in-person and virtually).
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy is extremely critical.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a customer service focus.
• Ability to protect and maintain confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with effective organizational skills.
• Demonstrated energetic and enthusiastic team player.
• Promote positive work habits, including effective and prompt communication, teamwork, and demonstrating respect for colleagues.
• Contribute to providing the highest quality of service to internal and external clients.
• Take proper initiative and ownership of job responsibilities while ensuring the assignments/job duties are performed successfully and on time.
• Understand and abide by firm policies and embrace firm values.
• Ability to maintain regular attendance and work regularly scheduled hours.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time, type, and handle light lifting (files, copy paper, etc.) in a professional office environment.
• Comply with safe work practices including compliance with the firms COVID-19 policies and safety measures.

EEO Statement

Blank Rome is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by law.

Our core values of respect for the individual, the community, and the law are clearly demonstrated in our ability to recruit and develop a diverse group of exceptionally talented attorneys and professional staff who enable us to best serve our clients and our communities.

• Seniority level Entry level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Legal and Project Management
• Industries Law Practice

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