Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager (Procurement Strategic Operations)
Location: Beaverton, OR (4 days/week)
Duration: 7 months Contract (Possible extension)

Overview:

• Leads projects that span both business and technology workstreams, coordinating across functional teams, vendor partners, and IT stakeholders
• Embedded member of the Procurement PMO team; expected to contribute beyond individual project delivery
• Participates in PMO staff meetings, shared planning sessions, and team rituals as a core team member
• Actively contributes to building and standardizing PMO artifacts including project plan templates, status report formats, RAID logs, and workstream charters
• Supports continuous improvement of how the PMO operates; brings structure and repeatability to how project are run across the portfolio
• Operates independently but aligned to Procurement PMO standards
• Drive accountability across cross-functional teams
• Deliver structured project management

Core Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain a complete, accurate project plan with milestones, owners, and dates
• Facilitate technical workstream meetings with clarity; capture decisions, assign actions, and follow through
• Manage integration timelines, flag risks early, and present options with tradeoffs
• Coordinate across solution architects, data and testing resources, and business stakeholders
• Facilitate meetings and all governance forums
• Maintain full visibility into project calendar, meeting cadence, and deliverable status
• Hold workstream owners accountable to commitments

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proficient in Smartsheets; able to build and maintain project plans, reports, and dashboards
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage a project plan, including dependencies, critical path, and integration sequencing
• Comfortable working in Excel for data tracking and analysis, and PowerPoint for executive-facing status updates and stakeholder communications
• Experience working directly in technical meetings alongside architects and engineers
• Strong stakeholder management; able to engage vendor teams, IT, and business leads
• Proficient in project management tools; able to setup and manage shared calendars, trackers, and RAID logs in a way that serves the team

Qualifications:

• Experience with procurement or contingent workforce platforms
• Experience supporting global rollouts with regional activation components
• Prior work in a large, matrixed corporate environment.