Project Manager - Supply Chain Compliance & Sustainability

Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000 Company; Inver Grove Heights (MN); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 131,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401k Retirement Plan

Job summary

CHS is seeking an expert-level Project Management Specialist to lead a multi-phased technology initiative that strengthens traceability, certification workflows, compliance reporting, and audit readiness across agricultural supply chains.

The role coordinates business process, data, application, integration, reporting, governance, and organizational change workstreams across multiple business units and locations.

Qualifications

• Proven success leading a complex compliance, sustainability, or supply chain technology initiative.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business, compliance, legal, audit, sustainability, data, and technology leaders to establish scope, governance, decision rights, milestones, controls, and success criteria.

Skills

Compliance project leadership

Regulatory requirements translation

Cross-functional leadership

Clear communication

Analytics and problem solving

Strategic planning

Executive presence

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering/PM/Business

Tools

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Job description

Project Manager - Supply Chain Compliance & Sustainability Technology

Location: Inver Grove Heights, MN

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 7 months
• Pay Rate: $80.00–$95.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days (First Shift)
• 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

CHS has an exciting opportunity within their Information Technology organization supporting Agribusiness supply chain, compliance, and sustainability capabilities. They are seeking an expert-level Project Management Specialist to 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. The successful candidate will be comfortable leading through regulatory requirements, translating compliance obligations into executable delivery plans, and balancing near-term deadlines with scalable enterprise capability development.

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.

Required Skills

• Proven success leading a complex compliance, sustainability, or supply chain technology initiative.
• Experience translating 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.
• Clear, concise communication with technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decisions.
• A proactive mindset and the ability to anticipate milestones, risks, dependencies, and resource needs.
• Sound judgment, executive presence, and a consistent focus on accountability and measurable outcomes.

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.

Education Requirements

• 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.

Required Experience

• 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.

Benefits

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

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: 26-13573 Industry: Manufacturing & Operations