About the role

  • Senior Project Manager at Canada Life responsible for overseeing IT project delivery. Leading initiative execution and stakeholder communication in corporate technology projects.

Responsibilities

  • Accountable for ensuring the successful end to end delivery of projects within our internal IT application and project delivery frameworks.
  • Sets up projects, resources, financials and schedule, proactively flagging variances that may jeopardize delivery.
  • Works effectively with limited supervision across external parties, cross-organization stakeholders and business partners to keep the project team on track, motivated and engaged.
  • Develops detailed project plans, stakeholder matrix, RAID logs, cut over plans and financial summaries.
  • Work with third party vendors to develop integrated project plans, ensuring vendors meet deliverables on schedule and budget.
  • Proactively works to resolve issues and remove roadblocks across project teams, proactively identifies potential issues before negatively impacting the project.
  • Confidently leads and facilitates project meetings/scrums ensuring a high degree of communication and documentation are provided; meeting materials, distribute meeting minutes, update program scorecards.
  • Develops presentations and dashboards for a variety of audiences (Executives, Operations, Core Teams, etc.) to show schedule, financials and resources consumption (e.g. Burn Rates, slippage, etc.)
  • Conducts post implementation reviews.
  • Efficiently communicates to stakeholders to manage expectations and project progress.
  • Ensures project documentation is up to date for all Business and technology documents (kick off, Charters, change management, implementation/cut over plans, decommissioning activities etc.).
  • Manages IT risk by ensuring consistency with company methodologies, IT cyber and risk controls, standards and financial reporting

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management, leading software implementations.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing projects involving integrations, data migration, or complex technical landscapes.
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing project teams, providing coaching and /or feedback to resources.
  • PMP certified
  • Experience with SAP cloud and on premise or business/transformation initiatives
  • Experience with different PM planning tools

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$85,000 - $115,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudPMP

Location requirements

HybridLondonCanada

Report this job

Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.