Senior Project Manager - Change Management

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Job Description

Our client has a requirement for a Senior Project Manager for a 6 month contract opportunity.  The position is located in North York, Toronto.

What makes this Special

Our client has a prestigious reputation and excellent work environment. This position offers an opportunity for personal learning and to contribute to important initiatives that make a difference. Our client is actively screening resumes and scheduling interviews to fill this position, so let one our professional resource managers represent you to the client, promote your skills, and help you prepare.

Reporting to their Director of Project Management Office, this project manager will work closely with the Program Director, Executive Steering Committee, the project team and the business, to deliver projects to meet or exceed business objectives using proper methodology, with an eye to solutions that are supportable and sustainable by our operations teams.

The ideal candidate will have resiliency and flexibility, as well as excellent relationship and communication skills, along with a desire and ability to lead.

Requirement or Qualifications

• Senior level or significant major project experience – 7-10+ years of project management experience on major large-scale, long-term, multi-million dollar projects
• Credentials – PMP designation or equivalent project management experience
• Education - post-secondary equivalent to a university degree or college diploma in Computer Science, Business or Administration
• Consulting – objectively presenting alternatives and consequences, and advising about and reviewing alternatives using logic and rationale
• Teamwork – ability to work as a part of team to achieve tangible results, and ability to manage and resolve conflict
• Methodologies – PMBOK, SDLC, Waterfall, Prince2, Agile/Scrum knowledge beneficial
• Other nice-to-haves – Ideally experience in retail, pharma or healthcare industries; experience in outsourcing and offshoring projects

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder management and relationship-building – ensure open communication and appropriate information sharing, and build credibility in order to work effectively with various groups with varied and sometimes conflicting priorities
• Business case – complete the business case and cost/benefit analysis, and oversee the analysis of the business      requirements
• Project Planning – plan and manage project staffing needs, larger scale timelines/schedules (possibly multiyear) and budgets up to $5 million, and manage vendor relationships
• Change management – ability to introduce, implement and manage all aspects of change, with teams and stakeholders, and communicate regularly and efficiently while complying with change management protocols
• Communicating and Presenting – tactfully, effectively and frequently communicate with stakeholders, securing approvals when needed, and keeping them abreast of progress and potential roadblocks, and present well-organized information (amount/relevance) to right people at the right time.
• Risk management – analyze, anticipate and mitigate risk factors and work with the team and stakeholders to minimize risk.
• Estimating and Tracking – keep on top of all numbers and metrics to ensure an accurate picture of current state, inclusive of budget(revenue/cost)
• Task Management – keeping the team members motivated and aligned in their work and ensuring quality results at each step within the project lifecycle.

Duties

• Stakeholder management and relationship-building – ensure open communication and appropriate information sharing, and build credibility in order to work effectively with various groups with varied and sometimes conflicting priorities
• Business case – complete the business case and cost/benefit analysis, and oversee the analysis of the business requirements
• Project Planning – plan and manage project staffing needs, larger scale timelines/schedules (possibly multiyear) and budgets up to $5 million, and manage vendor relationships
• Change management – ability to introduce, implement and manage all aspects of change, with teams and stakeholders, and communicate regularly and efficiently while complying with change management protocols
• Communicating and Presenting – tactfully, effectively and frequently communicate with stakeholders, securing approvals when needed, and keeping them abreast of progress and potential roadblocks, and present well-organized information (amount/relevance) to right people at the right time.
• Risk management – analyze, anticipate and mitigate risk factors and work with the team and stakeholders to minimize risk.
• Estimating and Tracking – keep on top of all numbers and metrics to ensure an accurate picture of current state, inclusive of budget (revenue/cost)
• Task Management – keeping the team members motivated and aligned in their work and ensuring quality results at each step within the project lifecycle.
  

Types of projects can include:

• Applications: Point of Sale, Corporate Systems, Supply Chain, Warehouse Management, Pharmacy Dispensing, Business Intelligence, etc.
• Infrastructure: Network, Server, Virtualization, Antivirus, Patch Management, etc.
• Security: Information Security, Risk Management, Security Architecture and Compliance, Identity and Access Management, PCI, etc.
• Strategic (Transformational): Data Architecture, Service Oriented Middleware / Architecture (SOM/SOA), cloud computing, e-offerings, etc.
• Deliver one or more projects that can range from small sized and simple assignments, to large-scale and complex projects, monitoring and managing risk and change associated with that scale of project, while ensuring things get done.

Keywords:  Senior Project Manager, Retail, POS, PMP

How to Apply

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