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Job Title: Project Manager: IV (Lead)
Location: Hybrid in Minneapolis,mn (2 days per week onsite)
Duration: Contract - 5 months
Pay Range: $66/hr (W2)
Job ID: 409979
About BCforward
BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.
Job Description
We are seeking a Project Management Specialist, Supply Chain Compliance and Sustainability to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in leading complex, phased compliance, sustainability, and supply chain technology initiatives and a proven ability to translate regulatory and certification requirements into traceable technology requirements, controls, evidence, testing, and audit-ready processes.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with business, compliance, legal, audit, sustainability, data, and technology leaders to establish scope, governance, decision rights, milestones, controls, and success criteria.
- Convert regulatory, certification, traceability, reporting, and audit-readiness needs into sequenced project plans and accountable workstreams.
- Develop and maintain an integrated roadmap using a hybrid methodology.
- Coordinate process design, supplier or producer data intake, master and transactional data, application configuration, integrations, reporting, documentation, testing, training, deployment, and support transition.
- Establish rigorous requirements traceability from obligations and business rules through design, testing evidence, controls, and operational procedures.
- Coordinate data readiness activities, including ownership, quality rules, lineage, reconciliation, retention, access, and evidence management.
- Manage third-party delivery partners and ensure alignment to enterprise architecture, data strategy, security, and supportability expectations.
- Own project financials, forecasts, resource plans, risk management, issue resolution, and change control.
- Provide concise, data-driven status reporting and decision materials for senior leadership and governance forums.
- Ensure adherence to enterprise delivery standards and applicable safety, security, privacy, records, architecture, and compliance requirements.
- Maintain and promote a strong safety culture and follow all safety policies, procedures, and regulations.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Proven track record leading at least two large-scale compliance, traceability, sustainability, data, ERP, or supply chain technology initiatives from initiation through deployment.
- 10+ years of experience in professional services consulting and/or IT program or project management delivering large, complex, multi-million-dollar technology initiatives.
- Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, change control, testing, training, and deployment from initiation through delivery.
- Experience operating in a matrixed, multi-business-unit enterprise environment and coordinating teams of 10 or more resources.
- Experience delivering enterprise-scale solutions across complex application and integration landscapes, including infrastructure, information security, data, and enterprise architecture considerations.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Project Management, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with regulated or certification-driven programs requiring traceability, evidence management, reporting, controls, or audit readiness.
- Working knowledge of agricultural supply chains, commodity operations, sustainability data, supplier onboarding, chain of custody, mass balance, or comparable traceability practices.
- Experience coordinating data architecture, analytics, enterprise integrations, and compliance reporting across multiple systems and stakeholders.
- PMI PMP certification.
- Experience managing delivery with third-party vendors, implementation partners, and system integrators.
- Experience leading strong-matrix teams composed of employees and contractors.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, or similar delivery tools.
Top Qualities:
- Proven success leading complex compliance, sustainability, or supply chain technology initiatives.
- Ability to translate regulatory or certification requirements into traceable technology requirements, controls, evidence, testing, and audit-ready processes.
- Ability to lead phased, cross-functional delivery through evolving requirements, data dependencies, and firm external deadlines.
Why BCforward?
At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to:
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Opportunities for growth with global clients.
- A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people.
- Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects.
About Our Commitment
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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