Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TALENT Software Services is seeking an IT Project Manager III to lead a large, global transition between external IT managed services providers. The role focuses on project oversight, coordination of approximately 15 concurrent workstreams, vendor management, risk mitigation, stakeholder communication, governance, and delivery against established timelines.
Responsibilities
- Develop detailed project plans and manage project scope, schedules, costs, staffing, resource requirements, and overall status reporting
- Lead large, global IT implementations and ensure all workstreams remain aligned with project timelines and deliverables
- Coordinate approximately 15 simultaneous workstreams, including dependencies, milestones, deliverables, risks, and cross-functional activities
- Organize project teams, assign responsibilities, and coordinate activities across multiple workstreams
- Oversee the global transition of IT managed services from one external provider to another
- Manage vendor communications and partnerships to ensure adherence to agreed-upon timelines, schedules, milestones, and deliverables
- Drive vendor accountability, identify delivery concerns, and escalate issues when necessary
- Provide stakeholders with timely updates and detailed information regarding project progress, risks, issues, decisions, costs, timing, staffing, and overall status
- Identify and resolve obstacles that may affect the project's ability to remain on schedule and within budget
- Identify, manage, and mitigate implementation risks throughout the project lifecycle
- Bring appropriate stakeholders together to facilitate major decisions and resolve cross-workstream dependencies or roadblocks
- Maintain accurate project data in project and performance management tools
- Ensure required project documentation, decisions, deliverables, and records are properly collected and archived for future use
- Track dependencies, milestones, deliverables, and commitments across global teams and external vendors
- Maintain consistent project governance and reporting throughout the implementation
- Support successful implementation and transition activities within an IT managed services environment
Skills
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant project management experience; typically 5+ years of relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience leading complex IT projects or implementations
- Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple concurrent workstreams
- Experience managing project scope, schedules, costs, staffing, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables
- Experience working with external IT service providers or vendors
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience with project planning, status reporting, project governance, and project documentation
- Demonstrated ability to identify and remove project obstacles and mitigate implementation risks
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage complex, globally distributed initiatives
- Candidate location and ability to work within one hour of the Minneapolis time zone
- IT managed services provider transition / MSP transition
- Transition from one external IT service provider to another
- Global IT outsourcing or managed services implementation
- Large-scale IT infrastructure or enterprise services transition
- Multi-vendor implementation environments
- Plant IT / manufacturing IT / plant-support environments
- Experience coordinating approximately 10-15+ workstreams
- Experience managing globally distributed teams and stakeholders
- Previous Cargill experience
- Experience with formal project/performance management tools and documentation repositories
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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