St Paul, MN, US,
55102
21 July 2024Role : Program/Project Manager ( e-Procurement)
Location : St. Paul,MN
Duration : 12+ Months
Rate : $60/hr on C2C(Max)
Job Description :
Project Deliverables
- Project Plan
o Governance Plan
o Assumptions/Constraints/Customer Impact Plan
o Detailed schedule (timelines/milestones)
o Project team(s)
o Communications plan
o Change Management Plan
o Risk plan
o Issues log
o Status report
o Project closeout/lessons learned
Along with providing for the project artifacts as listed above, the Program/Project manager will facilitate meetings, address resource issues, escalate issues to e-procurement task force and/or steering committee as needed and ensure project is meeting all documented milestones and overall project timeline.
Project Environment
The Program/Projects that will be covered include resources from all areas of our organization including:
- MnSCU Leadership
- Faculty/Staff/Students
- Business Office
o Purchasing
o Accounts Payable
- Finance
- IT
o Development (BAs, Coders, Analysts, Tech Leads)
o Security
o Architecture
- Testing (Quality Assurance)
- General Counsel
- State Agencies
- Other
As the system office organization is managed in reporting trees, working with upper level management (steering committee) will also be a requirement for the Program/Project Manager.
Project Requirements
The successful responder may provide no more than One (1) program/project manager(s) for evaluation that must meet the following requirements:
- Comply with all MnSCU Project Management principles, standards and procedures
Work on site at one of our staff sites – preferably at:
o MnSCU System Office, 30 7th St E, Suite 350, St Paul, MN 55101
- Occasional travel required at various outstate locations (Any of 31 two-year and four-year state colleges and universities with 54 campuses located in 47 Minnesota communities)
- Ensure project deliverables comply with all relevant MnSCU Policy, Procedures and Guidelines (i.e. security)
Responsibilities Expected of the Selected Vendor
The selected Vendor would provide ONE (1) experienced project manager to work within the e-procurement task force reporting to the e-procurement steering committee and would have the following responsibilities:
- Manage the user implementation governance of the MnSCU system wide procurement application
- Understand the processes and procedures proposed for system wide use of e‐procurement
- Manage communications and change control for the implementation both vertically and horizontally
- Determine common processes system wide to support consistent use of e‐procurement.
- Supports project decisions throughout the system
- Participate in workflow configuration for the new system
- Works collaboratively with e-procurement task force and e-procurement steering committee
- Other duties as necessary
Required Skills (to be scored as pass/fail)
Candidates must meet all of the Require Skills only then will the candidates be evaluated and scored.
Required minimum qualifications:
- Responding vendor must be approved in Program/Project Management category
- Formal Project Management certification and at least six (6) years in an active Program/Project management role
- PM involvement in three (3) or more multi-year enterprise level projects
- Three (3) engagements as a PM managing communications vertically and horizontally (e.g. stakeholders, implementation team, leadership, others) within an organization, and manage change control for the implementation
Desired Skills
- Experience as PM working in a Higher Education environment (2 years)
- Experience as PM working with two (2) or more e-procurement implementations (Commercially sold SaaS solution)