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.