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About the role

  • Senior Project Manager overseeing client-facing and internal initiatives. Collaborates with stakeholders to develop plans and execute projects in a technology-driven context.

Responsibilities

  • Develops and demonstrates an understanding of stakeholder needs, expectations, and requirements
  • Leads a continual planning process by identifying dependencies across teams/services and coordinate delivery to drive a clear execution plan
  • Establishes strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners, allowing for problem solving outside of group meetings and calls
  • Leads collaborations with customers, product, architecture, Subject Matter Experts, designers, and software/quality engineers to maximize project quality and business value
  • Optimizes the delivery flow of teams, actively addressing the most complicated risks and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists
  • Keeps the internal team focused by tailoring the engagement model based on the understanding of the business drivers and constraints
  • Recognizes tension points between project delivery and business needs/drivers, thinking outside the box to provide options that lead to 'best fit' resolution
  • Develops strong relationships and influences colleagues, stakeholders (internal and external), and partners to align to the business objectives
  • Identifies problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectifies them by surfacing issues through agile health-checks with the team and coaching
  • Coordinates activities of the project team to ensure project tasks are completed on time and commitments to stakeholders are upheld: schedules and facilitates project-related meetings, and communicates the action plan to the team
  • Coaches and leads teams in Agile and Lean practices, continuously reflecting and challenging the team
  • Manages cost and budget in complex environments by considering the impact of user needs, negotiating when projected conditions become unfavourable
  • Supports other Project Managers by consulting and mentoring as required
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology or related discipline from an accredited institution
  • Minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in project management required
  • Project Management certification is an asset
  • Experience working in a technology company environment, preferably Web software, and project delivery using waterfall and agile methodologies
  • Demonstrated experience managing multiple simultaneous projects involving cross-functional project teams and business units
  • Strong understanding of technologies surrounding web-based applications
  • Demonstrated leadership, negotiation, facilitation, and influencing skills
  • Proven team-building and facilitation skills in order to engage teams in projects
  • Ability to evaluate various options and make project adjustments as required
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Proficient with project management software and PC software applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Visio.

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonus

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$110,000 - CA$130,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridMarkhamCanada

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