Position Overview
Genesis10 is currently seeking a Project Management Specialist for a hybrid position with an Agricultural Cooperative located in Inver Grove Heights, MN. This is a contract opportunity. Compensation: $85.00 - $90.00 per hour, W2, based on qualifications
This role is part of an exciting opportunity within the Information Technology organization supporting Agribusiness supply chain, compliance, and sustainability capabilities. The selected candidate will lead a complex, phased technology initiative that will strengthen traceability, certification workflows, compliance reporting, and audit readiness across agricultural supply chains. This role will coordinate business process, data, application, integration, reporting, governance, and organizational change workstreams across multiple business units and locations.
Key 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 solution decisions remain aligned 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 established enterprise delivery standards, governance, 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
Primary Requirements
- 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
- Proven 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
Desired 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
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.
Benefits of Working with Genesis10
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below.
- Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.