Project Manager (Only on W2 Remote)
Wichita, KS - USA
Job Summary
Job Description:
Monday through Friday 7:00 - 4:00 PM EASTERN or 6:00-3:00 PM Central Tim Zone with some flexibility depending on global meetings.
Open to remote candidates prefer Eastern OR Central time zone.
*Minimum of four years of related work experience
*Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
Key Deliverables Food Minerva & Genesis Program
The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for the daytoday planning execution tracking and coordination of Food Minerva program activities across workstreams. The PM ensures delivery remains on schedule risks and dependencies are actively managed and leadership has clear timely visibility into progress issues and decisions.
Core Role Purpose
The Project Manager ensures delivery rigor: plans are integrated dependencies are managed risks are surfaced and leadership has clear timely visibility. The PM does not own delivery outcomes or solution decisions and does not prioritize scope.
1. Integrated Project Plan & Schedule Management
Develop and maintain the integrated Food Minerva project plan aligning milestones dependencies and timelines across data engineering governance testing change & adoption and cutover workstreams.
Maintain detailed plans aligned to PI testing and cutover timelines
Track milestones critical paths and interworkstream dependencies
Ensure plan updates reflect approved scope sequencing and delivery changes
2. Execution Tracking & Delivery Oversight
Drive disciplined execution of the project plan by monitoring progress against scope schedule and key deliverables.
Track workstream status and delivery commitments
Identify schedule variances and drive corrective actions
Ensure deliverables meet agreed acceptance criteria and timelines
3. Risk Issue & Dependency Management
Own the active management of projectlevel risks issues and dependencies to minimize delivery disruption.
Maintain and regularly update RAID logs
Proactively surface crossworkstream dependencies and bottlenecks
Drive mitigation plans and escalate risks requiring leadership intervention
4. Governance Cadence & Status Reporting
Establish and run projectlevel governance routines to ensure transparency and timely decisionmaking.
Prepare and deliver weekly project status reports and dashboards
Support steering CAB and leadership forums with clear status risks and decisions needed
Ensure alignment between projectlevel reporting and programlevel governance
5. CrossFunctional Coordination
Act as the central coordination point across Food Minerva workstreams and stakeholders.
Coordinate activities across engineering testing change cutover and business teams
Ensure handoffs between phases (build test UAT cutover) are planned and executed
Support alignment between Product Owners Delivery Leads and Program Leadership
6. Change Control & Scope Management
Support disciplined scope and change management across the project lifecycle.
Track scope changes and ensure impacts to schedule cost and resources are understood
Facilitate change intake and approval workflows
Ensure approved changes are reflected in plans reporting and delivery commitments
& Hypercare Coordination Support
Provide project management support through cutover and stabilization phases.
Coordinate readiness activities across testing change and cutover leads
Track golive action items issues and stabilization milestones
Support postgolive reporting and closure activities
8. Documentation & Audit Readiness
Ensure project documentation is maintained to enterprise and program standards.
Maintain project artifacts including plans RAID logs decision logs and status reports
Support audit compliance and leadership review needs
- Ensure documentation reflects final delivery outcomes
Required Skills:
integrated Food Minerva project plan and data engineering governance testing PI testing and cutover timelines update RAID logs RAID logs decision logs and status reports audit compliance and leadership review
Required Education:
Any