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Project Manager

Provides project management of multiple large scale, complex, high profile and high-risk
projects for Client IT initiatives. Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business
requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and
compliance utilizing Client’s project management methodologies and frameworks. Actively
promote continuous improvement in Project Delivery Team processes, tools and
technologies.

Experience Levels

Project Manager 3-6 years’ experience leading multiple complex projects simultaneously.

Required Skills
• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management
Body of Knowledge.
• PMP certification or equivalent preferred.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management (including record keeping)
policies and practices.
• Experience working with global teams.
• Manufacturing industry experience working in a customer facing role.

Proven experience with:

• Develop project plans including, but not limited to, aspects such as project objectives,
measurable metrics, tools to be used, impacted systems, system specifications,
schedules, project budgeting and stakeholders.
• Prioritize critical tasks during the planning phase to ensure critical functionality
continuity in the short term.
• Articulate project objectives and establish tracking mechanisms to measure and track
these objectives.
• Update key stakeholders, their roles on the project and their upstream and downstream
system dependencies.
• Identify change management needs and process changes to prepare detailed
organization-wide change management strategies for all teams impacted by systems
implementations, upgrades, and ongoing modifications.
• Manage project execution to adhere to the project budget, scope and schedule.
• Report statuses, progress, risks, and deviations to the steering committee, executive
leadership (where needed) and key stakeholders.
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies to plan tasks, perform effort
estimations where needed, create test scripts with SMEs and coordinate the activities of
all project personnel to ensure that the project moves towards its goals.
• Leads planning and execution of projects including funding gate requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements to create and maintain a detailed project schedule
and/or integrated plan.
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines. Clarify roles and
responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for all resources.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, and
ensures knowledge is shared amongst team members so that project objectives and
deliverables are met.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and
accountability including estimates, forecasts, and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper
mitigating strategies can be developed. Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at
senior management levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums. Provides,
project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior management
levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize
on forces in support of change during all stages of projects - concept, definition,
planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes Client IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate
control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use
of IT resources.

“This position requires a valid Canadian Security Clearance. Candidates can be guided
through the application process for this clearance but must successfully obtain the clearance
in order to fill the position.”