IT - DTD - Project Manager III

Job Description: MAX BILL RATE: ***/HR***

Monday through Friday 7:00 - 4:00 PM EASTERN or 6:00-3:00 PM Central Tim Zone, with some flexiblity depending on global meetings.

Open to remote candidates prefer Eastern OR Central time zone.

*Minimum of four years of related work experience
*Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
Project Manager - Key Deliverables
Food Minerva & Genesis Program
The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for the day-to-day planning, execution, tracking, and coordination of Food Minerva program activities across workstreams. The PM ensures delivery remains on schedule, risks and dependencies are actively managed, and leadership has clear, timely visibility into progress, issues, and decisions.

Core Role Purpose
The Project Manager ensures delivery rigor: plans are integrated, dependencies are managed, risks are surfaced, and leadership has clear, timely visibility. The PM does not own delivery outcomes or solution decisions and does not prioritize scope.

1. Integrated Project Plan & Schedule Management
Develop and maintain the integrated Food Minerva project plan, aligning milestones, dependencies, and timelines across data engineering, governance, testing, change & adoption, and cutover workstreams.
• Maintain detailed plans aligned to PI, testing, and cutover timelines
• Track milestones, critical paths, and inter-workstream dependencies
• Ensure plan updates reflect approved scope, sequencing, and delivery changes

2. Execution Tracking & Delivery Oversight
Drive disciplined execution of the project plan by monitoring progress against scope, schedule, and key deliverables.
• Track workstream status and delivery commitments
• Identify schedule variances and drive corrective actions
• Ensure deliverables meet agreed acceptance criteria and timelines

3. Risk, Issue, & Dependency Management
Own the active management of project-level risks, issues, and dependencies to minimize delivery disruption.
• Maintain and regularly update RAID logs
• Proactively surface cross-workstream dependencies and bottlenecks
• Drive mitigation plans and escalate risks requiring leadership intervention

4. Governance Cadence & Status Reporting
Establish and run project-level governance routines to ensure transparency and timely decision-making.
• Prepare and deliver weekly project status reports and dashboards
• Support steering, CAB, and leadership forums with clear status, risks, and decisions needed
• Ensure alignment between project-level reporting and program-level governance

5. Cross-Functional Coordination
Act as the central coordination point across Food Minerva workstreams and stakeholders.
• Coordinate activities across engineering, testing, change, cutover, and business teams
• Ensure handoffs between phases (build → test → UAT → cutover) are planned and executed
• Support alignment between Product Owners, Delivery Leads, and Program Leadership

6. Change Control & Scope Management
Support disciplined scope and change management across the project lifecycle.
• Track scope changes and ensure impacts to schedule, cost, and resources are understood
• Facilitate change intake and approval workflows
• Ensure approved changes are reflected in plans, reporting, and delivery commitments

7. Cutover & Hypercare Coordination Support
Provide project management support through cutover and stabilization phases.
• Coordinate readiness activities across testing, change, and cutover leads
• Track go-live action items, issues, and stabilization milestones
• Support post-go-live reporting and closure activities

8. Documentation & Audit Readiness
Ensure project documentation is maintained to enterprise and program standards.
• Maintain project artifacts including plans, RAID logs, decision logs, and status reports
• Support audit, compliance, and leadership review needs
• Ensure documentation reflects final delivery outcomes

Interviews will be conducted virtually via MS Teams.
Comments for Suppliers: Looking for a senior Project Manager for a global Food Enterprise project focused on migrating data models to a new tech stack, increasing data governance maturity, and unifying data products as part of a business integration. We're looking for someone who can bring forward Project Management best practices and achieve outcomes while navigating speed, risk and collision management with adjacent projects.