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
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