[Remote] Project Manager III

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IRIS Consulting LLC is seeking a Project Manager III to oversee the Food Minerva program activities across various workstreams. The role involves ensuring delivery rigor, managing project plans, tracking progress, and facilitating communication among stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Skills

• 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

Company Overview

• IRIS Consulting LLC (Powered by Javelin ITCS) is an IT staffing company based in Minnesota. It was founded in 1997, and is headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://iriscc.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• IRIS Consulting LLC has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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