IT Project Manager

• Compensation: USD 140,000 - USD 160,000 - yearly

At Link Snacks
, we show up hungry, roll up our sleeves, plaid or otherwise, and dive straight into the hard work. We don’t hide from challenges; we hunt them down. We push harder, move faster, and take the kinds of big swings that built this business in the North Woods of Wisconsin four decades ago.

We’re everyday people who deliver extraordinary results. Innovation, creativity, and urgency aren’t buzzwords, they’re expectations. And just like the real protein snacks we make across our global house of brands—Jack Link’s® , Lorissa’s Kitchen® , Golden Island® , BiFi® , and Peperami® and KOOEE!® to name a few—there’s nothing artificial about us. What you see is exactly what you get: humble, gritty, passionate people who show up every day ready to not just be a participate in the meat snack industry that the Link Family created, but to move faster, innovate harder and keep raising the bar so high, the rest of the world needs a ladder just to see it.

Dominating this space across the world takes a team. A team that runs together, succeeds together, and celebrates together. A team that’s full of relentless energy and spirit that can only be fueled by one thing: a fist full of our delicious meat snacks.

Real Meat Protein. Real People. Real Results. THAT is Link Snacks.

Come Run with Sasquatch as our IT Project Manager!

The IT Project Manager will play a dual-impact role, dedicating approximately 50% of their time to facilitate Agile delivery for analytics‑focused projects and teams. In this capacity, the role supports Analytics squads within IT by driving effective sprint planning, backlog refinement, resource capacity tracking, and iterative delivery of data, reporting, and analytics solutions. This position ensures Agile practices are consistently followed, removes delivery impediments, and strengthens collaboration across Product Owners, data developers and engineers, and Business Relationship Managers.

In addition to Agile delivery support, the role leads IT projects across infrastructure, helpdesk, cybersecurity, and enterprise data platforms. It plays a central part in shaping the IT roadmap and driving technology‑enabled business transformation, with a strong emphasis on modernizing and expanding the organization’s data platform capabilities to ensure scalable, future‑ready solutions.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and manage a portfolio of IT projects across helpdesk, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and enterprise data platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals, standardized delivery practices, and strong cross‑functional coordination.
• Oversee data platform modernization initiatives—including Lakehouse technologies—by collaborating with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, and security teams to drive successful enterprise data outcomes.
• Facilitate Agile‑like delivery for analytics teams by coaching on best practices, guiding sprint planning and ceremonies, managing capacity, and maintaining a healthy, prioritized backlog.
• Define project requirements, schedules, resources, and cost estimates while ensuring accurate documentation, proactive risk management, and effective communication with stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects by tracking progress, resolving conflicts, escalating issues, and providing leadership with clear, actionable reporting on status, risks, and resource utilization.
• Support strategic IT planning by influencing project prioritization, contributing to new technology implementations, and upholding PMO and IT project delivery standards.
• Perform additional duties as needed to support organizational and technology objectives.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an Team Member to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the Team Member is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The…