Project Manager III

Job Title: Project Manager III

Location: 15407 McGinty Rd W, Wayzata, MN 55391

Duration: 9 months

PR: $96.00/hr on W2

Job Description:

• Minimum of four years of relevant project management experience; typically five or more years of relevant experience.
• Develop detailed project plans and manage project scope, schedules, costs, staffing, resource requirements, and overall status reporting.
• Organize project teams, assign responsibilities, and coordinate activities across multiple workstreams.
• Lead large, global implementations and ensure all workstreams remain aligned with project timelines and deliverables.
• Maintain accurate project data in project and performance management tools, ensuring required documentation is collected and archived for future use.
• Provide stakeholders with timely updates and detailed information regarding project progress, risks, issues, and decisions.
• Identify and resolve obstacles that may affect the project's ability to remain on schedule and within budget.
• Manage vendor communications and partnerships to ensure adherence to agreed-upon timelines, schedules, and deliverables.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate implementation risks throughout the project lifecycle.

This role will oversee the global transition of the company's IT managed services provider from 1 external vendor to another. The implementation affects all regions, which requires significant coordination and project management.

Prioritize candidates who can demonstrate:
• Oversight of large, global IT implementations involving multiple regions and vendors.
• Coordination of approximately 15 simultaneous workstreams, including dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Direct experience with IT managed services implementation or provider transition.
• Strong vendor management, including maintaining schedules, driving accountability, and escalating issues.
• Detailed project planning and consistent reporting on cost, timing, staffing, risks, and overall status.
• Ability to remove obstacles, mitigate implementation risks, and bring the appropriate stakeholders together for major decisions.
• Disciplined use of project or performance management tools and proper documentation practices.
• Ideally, experience supporting IT managed services within a plant-support environment.

Important Scope Clarification:

• This is strictly a project oversight and management role.
• The candidate will not perform IT execution, programming, system configuration, or sprint management.
• Suppliers should emphasize project leadership, vendor coordination, risk management, and global implementation oversight-not hands-on technical delivery.
• No PMP or formal project management certification is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous client experience.
• Based in Wayzata, Minnesota, preferred but not required.
• Previous experience implementing or transitioning IT managed services within a plant support environment.