Roles › Senior Project Manager
Chicago, IL
Senior Project Manager jobs in Chicago, IL
5 open roles from 4 employers. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
What these openings look like
4 employers are hiring here: Health Care Service Corporation, Vizient, Clark Construction and Jones Lang LaSalle. 4 of the 5 publish a pay range, running $88,900 to $175,000 a year. The rest do not say. Every posting is full time. The most recent went up on Oct 6, 2026.
Every listing links to the employer's own application. Nothing is posted here on their behalf, and nothing is reposted from anywhere else.
Open roles
What it pays here
Only some employers publish a range. These are the ones that did, as written in their own postings:
- $92,700–$167,500 a year
- $88,900–$155,500 a year
- $110,000–$175,000 a year
What they ask senior project manager candidates here
Drawn from the 5 open postings on this page. The ones that come up across several employers are near the top.
Tell me about a large program with several sub-projects that you led end to end. How did you manage dependencies?
What they are checking: Whether they have truly owned complex delivery, including the links between sub-projects.
How do you manage budget and forecast on a project when spending starts running ahead of plan?
What they are checking: Whether they track cost actively and act early instead of reporting overruns after the fact.
What do you need to learn about claims processing to lead a project in the Claims Portfolio well?
What they are checking: Whether they invest in learning the business area enough to spot feasibility issues.
A stakeholder requests a scope change late in the project. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they run disciplined change control while keeping the relationship intact.
How do you set expectations with a business sponsor at the start of a project?
What they are checking: Whether they define scope, success and trade-offs clearly before work begins.
Tell me about a time you had to escalate a risk to leadership. How did you decide it was time?
What they are checking: Whether they escalate at the right moment with options, not too early or too late.
Medicaid projects often face regulatory deadlines that cannot move. How does that change your planning?
What they are checking: Whether they plan around fixed compliance dates with buffers and clear critical paths.
How do you keep a matrix team motivated when none of them report to you?
What they are checking: Whether they can lead through influence and remove barriers for the team.
Get told when new senior project manager jobs in Chicago appear.
One email when something new matches, and nothing else. Unsubscribe works immediately.
Practice a senior project manager interview.
Pick a posting above, paste it in, and Offer runs the interview for that exact role — out loud, one question at a time, with feedback that tells you what landed. The first one is free.
Practice this out loud