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Direct hire recruiting · Project Manager
Project Manager Recruiting
Hire project managers through Scion’s established talent relationships. Our award-winning recruiters match delivery experience to your systems rollout, business transformation, or client initiative so you can choose a permanent leader with confidence.
Company-wide Scion metrics
98%+Executive search one-year retention
20 yearsRecruiting experience
1,000+Happy clients
950K+Private talent network
16M+National candidate network
All 50 statesRecruiting coverage
Who we are
An established partner for project management hiring
Scion Staffing is an established, award-winning recruiting and staffing partner for project manager hiring. Our direct hire expertise spans systems implementations, business transformation, client delivery, and multi-team initiatives. Clients work with us for our existing talent relationships, private talent network, local and statewide connections, and national recruiting reach.
Scion Staffing helps employers recruit permanent project managers when a launch, implementation, expansion, or client commitment needs dependable ownership. Founded in 2006, we bring 20 years of recruiting experience and US-based recruiting support to searches that cross departments, systems, and stakeholder groups. Your delivery environment guides our approach: a technology rollout, a professional services engagement, and a multi-site initiative call for different evidence of success.
We learn what must move forward and where the new hire will have authority. That context helps us represent your opportunity clearly to experienced professionals, including people who may not be actively applying. You gain a recruiting partner who can translate the work ahead into a focused search rather than rely on a title or certification alone.
What we provide
Access delivery experience through established connections
Access our established talent connections for your permanent hire. We draw on candidate relationships and recruiting resources already in place, then extend that reach with targeted sourcing where your requirements call for it. Your recruiting expert matches delivery experience, stakeholder complexity, project methods, and work arrangements to your priorities, confirms candidate interest and availability, and evaluates alignment before making introductions.
We source, screen, and introduce project management candidates for permanent employment with your organization. The search can emphasize business transformation, systems implementation, client delivery, or programs and launches. We align outreach with delivery complexity, sponsor expectations, methodology, compensation, and work arrangements, then coordinate interviews and candidate communication through your selection and offer discussions.
Scion identifies, evaluates, and introduces project management candidates for permanent employment with your organization. We align the search with your delivery mandate and coordinate the hiring process through your selection and offer discussions.
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Relevant project talent, with recruiting handled for you
You receive a dedicated recruiting expert, access to our established talent relationships and broader networks, evaluated project manager candidate introductions, interview coordination, and support through selection and offer discussions. We handle the recruiting details while your team chooses the professional who fits systems implementations, business transformation, client delivery, and multi-team initiatives.
Relevant talent as fast as 48 to 72 hours after intake. Timing depends on requirements and candidate availability.
Targeted outreach
Sourcing and direct outreach focused on professionals whose project experience fits the complexity you described.
Candidate context
Relevant delivery experience, stakeholder responsibilities, tools, and role alignment to guide your interviews.
Decision support
Coordinated introductions, interview feedback, and offer discussions so the search stays connected to your roadmap.
For delivery responsibilities that sit inside a broader permanent team, explore Scion’s direct hire operations recruiting. If a project needs coverage before the permanent hire starts, consider temporary project manager staffing as a separate engagement.
Established connections help us move quickly. Scion can generally start the search the same day after intake and can present relevant talent as fast as 48 to 72 hours. For most roles, submissions can arrive within 24 to 72 hours after intake. Timing depends on your requirements, candidate interest and availability, and the interview process.
Recognition behind the delivery search
A recognized recruiting partner behind your delivery hire
Project commitments depend on clear communication. Scion’s 2026 Best of Staffing Client Satisfaction recognition gives you independent evidence of our firm’s service as you choose the partner supporting this hire.
Our Talent Satisfaction recognition adds another perspective on the recruiting experience. For your search, we connect that established service approach with the initiative, sponsor relationships, and delivery experience you need to evaluate.
Awards recognize Scion’s firm-wide service; project experience remains part of the individual hiring evaluation.
Why this hire matters
Your initiatives need an owner with staying power.
When every department owns a piece of a project, someone still needs to own the whole. An unfilled project management position leaves sponsors chasing updates, specialists managing dependencies, and decisions waiting between meetings. A permanent hire gives your organization continuity across successive initiatives and a consistent way to plan, communicate, and deliver.
Relevant evidence for your hiring decision
Look past certifications to the decisions that kept work moving.
A PMP credential or familiarity with Jira can be useful. Neither tells you how someone responds when a dependency slips and two sponsors want different outcomes. Scion explores the context of past delivery, the candidate’s own contribution, and the way they communicate tradeoffs.
Scope and ownership
What did the candidate personally lead, and how did they establish responsibilities and approval paths?
Risk and recovery
How did they identify dependencies, escalate issues, and replan without losing stakeholder trust?
Communication and adoption
How did they make progress visible, manage resistance, and prepare teams to use the finished solution?
Systems and methods
Which tools and approaches fit your environment: Agile, waterfall, hybrid, Microsoft Project, Asana, Smartsheet, or Jira?
Explore your hiring priority
What will your next project manager lead?
Choose an initiative to explore the experience your hiring brief should address. Scion will tailor the search after discussing the actual scope with your team.
System implementation
Recruit a manager who can connect the system rollout to business readiness.
For an ERP or enterprise platform implementation, define the vendor relationship, workstreams, testing, training, and go-live responsibilities. Scion can target candidates with delivery experience relevant to those demands.
- Vendor and workstream coordination
- Dependencies, risks, and change control
- Testing, readiness, and adoption
Business transformation
Find an owner for change that crosses departmental boundaries.
When processes and responsibilities are changing together, the hire needs to create structure without losing stakeholder support. We explore governance, executive communication, and experience managing ambiguity.
- Cross-functional governance
- Executive updates and escalation
- Process change and adoption
Client delivery
Give recurring client commitments dedicated delivery leadership.
Share engagement size, concurrent workloads, customer expectations, and resource constraints. Scion can search for project managers experienced in coordinating delivery while protecting the client relationship.
- Concurrent engagement management
- Resource and timeline planning
- Customer communication and follow-through
Connect the work to the experience
The hiring brief should reflect the decisions ahead.
Use the roadmap below to connect the permanent role to the responsibilities your sponsors need owned.
Delivery complexity
Projects with comparable stakeholders and interdependent workstreams.
Decision pressure
Examples of navigating scope changes and escalating meaningful tradeoffs.
Lasting ownership
Interest in a permanent role and the work beyond the initial initiative.
Conceptual hiring guide; not statistical performance data.
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Recruit for the kind of change your business is making.
Systems and business transformation
ERP rollouts, workflow redesign, integrations, and change across finance, HR, or operations.
Client delivery and professional services
Concurrent engagements, customer commitments, resource planning, and coordination across internal and external teams.
Programs, launches, and expansion
New services, multi-location rollouts, and initiatives that require structure after the initial launch.
Your next step
Ready to discuss your project manager hire?
Share your project portfolio, executive sponsor, decision authority, desired start date, location, compensation range, and the first milestones this hire will own. A finished job description is helpful, but your priorities are enough to start the conversation.
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Build a search around the work on your roadmap.
Submit your staffing request
Tell us you need project manager recruiting support. We will take it from there, clarify the essentials, and connect your hiring priorities with our established recruiting resources.
Target delivery experience
We source and screen for relevant complexity, judgment, and stakeholder leadership.
Compare the evidence
Meet selected candidates and explore how their delivery approach fits your team.
Move toward a start
We coordinate feedback and offer discussions; you make the final hiring decision.
Scion can generally start the search the same day after intake and can present relevant talent as fast as 48 to 72 hours. Timing depends on role requirements, candidate availability, and the interview process.
Coverage that fits the work
Reach relevant talent across the country
For an onsite implementation, clarify site access and travel. For hybrid or remote delivery, share stakeholder locations, time-zone overlap, and the meetings that require an in-person presence. Scion recruits across all 50 states and shapes outreach around those practical requirements.
Easy intake
Submit a staffing request. We will clarify the rest.
Share your project portfolio, executive sponsor, decision authority, desired start date, location, compensation range, and the first milestones this hire will own. A finished job description is helpful, but your priorities are enough to start the conversation.
You do not need every detail finalized before contacting us. Your recruiter can help distinguish essential qualifications from preferences.
As we coordinate the search, we will cover these practical details with you: Share your project portfolio, sponsors, constraints, compensation, and work model.
Start with your business need
Put a capable owner behind your next major initiative.
Tell Scion what needs to move forward, who needs to be aligned, and what successful delivery will look like.
Scion’s team will follow up to discuss the role, search scope, and recruiting terms.
Before you start a search
Project Manager recruiting FAQs
Does Scion recruit permanent project managers or only contractors?
Scion recruits project managers for direct hire employment as well as temporary assignments. For a direct hire search, the selected professional joins your organization as an employee. We define the lasting responsibilities and delivery environment before recruiting.
Can you recruit a project manager for an ERP implementation?
Yes. Tell us the system, implementation stage, business functions, vendors, and internal resources involved. We can target project managers with relevant implementation experience and clarify whether technical depth, business change leadership, or both are essential.
Should we require a PMP certification?
A PMP requirement should reflect the work and your organization’s standards. It can be valuable for structured delivery environments, but comparable project experience, stakeholder leadership, and judgment also matter. Scion helps distinguish essential qualifications from preferences.
How do you evaluate project management candidates?
We explore comparable project scope, personal responsibility, risk management, stakeholder communication, tools, and delivery methods. Your team can use interviews to examine specific examples and make the final selection.
How long does a direct hire project manager search take?
Timing depends on specialization, compensation, location, candidate availability, and your interview schedule. Scion discusses the search plan after intake and coordinates feedback as candidates are evaluated rather than promising a universal completion date.
Can we hire temporary project support while the permanent search runs?
Yes. Scion offers temporary project manager staffing as a separate engagement. We can discuss immediate delivery coverage alongside the permanent search, with responsibilities and terms agreed for each.
How are recruiting fees and replacement terms determined?
Scion discusses fees, payment terms, and any applicable replacement provisions in the recruiting agreement. Request a search consultation so the team can explain the terms for your project manager position before work begins.
What should we provide to start a project manager search?
Share the initiatives this person will lead, reporting relationships, budget or resource responsibilities, required systems, compensation range, location, and target start date. An existing job description helps, but Scion can also discuss the role with you directly.
What happens after we request project manager candidates?
Scion’s team follows up to discuss your initiatives, required experience, compensation, location, and hiring schedule. Before recruiting proceeds, you and Scion align on the search scope and recruiting terms.
How does Scion reach project managers beyond applicants?
Scion combines targeted sourcing, direct outreach, and established professional networks to identify relevant project management talent. The search is guided by your delivery scope rather than relying only on incoming applications.
What context comes with a project manager introduction?
Candidate information focuses on relevant project experience, responsibilities, methodology, tools, and alignment with your role. Use that context to decide whom to interview and to explore specific delivery examples with your team.
Can we discuss a confidential project management search?
Tell Scion about confidentiality requirements during the first conversation. Agree on what company and project information can be shared, when it can be disclosed, and who should participate before outreach begins.
How quickly can Scion begin a project manager search?
Scion can generally start the search the same day after intake and can present relevant talent as fast as 48 to 72 hours. Timing depends on role requirements, candidate availability, and the interview process; these are not guaranteed turnaround times.
Where should candidates apply for opportunities?
These services are for employers hiring permanent talent. Candidates can search current jobs or apply with Scion. Follow the application instructions for the opportunity that interests you.