Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: Inver Grove Heights, MN

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 10 months
• Pay Rate: $100.00 $105.00 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

This role sits within the Technology Delivery team at a leading agricultural cooperative, supporting Information Technology. The organization is seeking a Project Manager to lead execution of technology initiatives supporting Go-to-Market capabilities. This role is accountable for driving ideas to value delivery by managing deliverables, initiative management, dependencies, financial awareness, risks, decisions, and stakeholder expectations. The Project Manager maintains clear, easily discoverable documentation and delivery visibility. They ensure teams are predictable against forecasted work expectations, teams follow through on commitments, and escalates issues that put outcomes at risk. The role partners closely with Product Owners, Product Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters, technology teams, business partners, and third-party providers. The Project Manager understands product-team operating models and connects initiative-level commitments with work managed by product teams without creating competing processes or reporting, while additionally following the CHS Tech Delivery Framework.

Key Responsibilities

Lead Initiative Delivery

• Lead complex, cross-functional technology initiatives by assisting establishing clear scope, outcomes, milestones, deliverables, owners, governance, and success measures.
• Maintain a delivery plan across business, technology, product teams, and vendors.
• Drive deliverables to completion by confirming ownership, tracking commitments, addressing gaps, highlighting success, and reinforcing accountability.
• Partner with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Product Delivery Managers to align initiative milestones with priorities, backlogs, capacity, dependencies, releases, and quarterly commitments.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, assumptions, changes, and cross-team dependencies; surface conflicts and drive timely tradeoff decisions.
• Maintain clear risk, issue, action, assumption, and decision logs with accountable owners and due dates.
• Resolve delivery barriers and escalate risks with objective facts, business impact, options, and a clear decision or support needed.
• Keep delivery documentation current, accessible, and sufficient to support execution, governance, and decisions.

Provide Delivery Visibility and Status Reporting

• Maintain accurate visibility into scope, deliverables, milestones, financials, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and overall initiative health.
• Produce concise, data-driven status readouts and decision materials for stakeholders, leaders, and governance forums.
• Use Azure DevOps and Microsoft Project as a primary source of delivery information and connect initiative reporting to project or product-team work.
• Partner with Scrum Masters and product teams to maintain appropriate traceability across initiative deliverables, features, epics, and team backlogs.
• Create and maintain dashboards, dependency views, and visual management tools using Azure DevOps, Miro, and Microsoft collaboration tools.
• Maintain one clear view of initiative health and reduce duplicative or conflicting reporting while adhering to the CHS Tech Delivery Framework.

Manage Financials, Vendors, and Delivery Standards

• Own initiative budgets, forecasts, commitments, actuals, variances, and financial reporting.
• Manage resource plans and surface capacity or skill gaps that could affect delivery.
• Hold vendors and implementation partners accountable for deliverables, quality, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Ensure initiatives follow established Technology Delivery Framework expectations and applicable governance, security, architecture, data, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Recommend practical improvements to delivery processes, documentation, tools, and reporting.
• Share effective project-management practices and mentor other delivery partners as appropriate.

Required Skills

• Experience managing deliverables, scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, change control, testing, deployment, and transition to support.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple product teams, business areas, technology platforms, or external partners.
• Experience working with Agile teams and product-team operating models.
• Experience connecting initiative milestones and deliverables with product-team backlogs, capacity, and delivery commitments.
• Strong documentation, status reporting, facilitation, financial management, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to influence outcomes, drive decisions, and reinforce accountability without direct authority.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and senior leaders.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting customer-facing, sales, marketing, digital, commercial, Dynamics 365, CRM, or other Go-to-Market technology capabilities.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Miro, Microsoft Project, Power BI, and Microsoft collaboration tools.
• Experience creating dashboards, roadmaps, dependency views, and executive delivery reporting.
• Experience working closely with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Delivery Managers, and product teams.
• Experience managing third-party vendors, system integrators, or implementation partners.
• PMI Project Management Professional certification.
• Scrum, Agile, SAFe, product management, or related certification.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Required Experience

• 7 years of experience leading complex technology projects or programs in a matrixed enterprise environment.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This Fortune 500 agricultural cooperative is the largest of its kind in the United States, a farmer-owned enterprise rooted in the belief that the people who grow food should have a stake in how it's processed, marketed, and sold. Founded in 1931 and governed by a board of active farmers and ranchers, this organization operates as a true cooperative: owned by the agricultural producers and cooperatives it serves. The company's scope is broad and consequential handling grain marketing, agronomy and crop inputs, food processing, financial services for agricultural businesses, and energy distribution through one of North America's largest fuel and convenience networks, serving customers in 65 countries. With more than 10,000 employees and a mission directly tied to the viability of American agriculture, the organization offers professionals the opportunity to work within a sector that touches the food supply, rural economies, and global commodity markets. Teams here span agronomists, grain merchandisers, energy distribution specialists, financial services professionals, and supply chain and logistics experts, within a culture where people genuinely care about one another and about the mission of supporting agriculture.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-17712

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