Business Project Manager

CGI; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT and business consulting firm in Toronto is seeking a Senior Business Project Manager to manage projects with budgets exceeding $5 million. The role involves leading teams, ensuring project delivery, and fostering client relationships. Ideal candidates will have over 10 years of project delivery experience, preferably in the banking domain, along with strong communication skills. This is a hybrid role with flexibility in work location.

Benefits

Career growth opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Comprehensive health benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years in project delivery, especially managing budgets above $5 million.
• Experience in roles like Project Manager/Program Manager or Engagement Manager.
• Familiar with Banking Domain and business-oriented projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects with a budget over $5 million and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Act as the primary delivery executive with accountability for project execution.
• Build strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Project delivery experience

Budget management

Excellent verbal and written communication

Stakeholder engagement

Executive presence

Education

University/College degree

Project Management Certification (PMP)

Job description

Position Description

This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto and/or Client office at a minimum 2 days per week - subject to change at any time.

The Senior Business Project Manager's role is to manage the project from initiation to post-implementation. The incumbent will be responsible for end-to-end integration delivery of the implementation with Tech IT Project Manager and oversee all business work packages are taken care.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Lead a project with a 5-million-dollar budget or more, with a duration of 12-18+ months and a team size of over 15 members. Able to manage 3-4 projects parallelly and has focused approach to keep business sponsor’s objectives on track.
• Act as the primary delivery executive with accountability for overall project execution by partnering closely with tech IT project manager on engagement financials, client relationships, and service delivery quality.
• Must have executive presence and ability to work closely with senior executive client team at Sr Director, VP , SVP designees.
• Ability to lead and participate in executive-level business and technology discussions.
• Lead project team through problem determination and issue resolution as required
  
  

Planning

• Must be familiar with SEED , Business Case – concept including planned benefit realization.
• Be focussed in creating or supporting project charter creation by working closely with Business Sponsor delegate.
• Familiar with people change management risk assessment process from business team perspective.
• Report on delivery status to executive bodies on weekly, biweekly or monthly frequency as followed by Client Team within the client organization.
• Project Artifacts such as Project Charter, Project Management Plan (defines general agreement between tech and business project delivery around governance, Change Request), Financial Monitoring (Forecast v/s Actual – Monthly monitoring)
• Ability to develop and build strong, productive working relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Engage business stakeholders , Technology team following clients internal process.
• Active participant in requirement documentation – business and solution , ensuring desired scope objectives are met and covered.
• Accountable for business work package planning, execution and implementation.
  
  

Execution, Control , Monitoring:

• Change initiative risk assessment – work with various risk associates to identify , mitigate, avoid business risks.
• Demonstrated success at collaborating, building consensus, and driving multiple projects to completion
• Communicating and reinforcing project methodologies and standards, developing all project artifacts as required, including issue management, risk management, and change management.
• Monitoring all testing and implementation activities, ensuring that all phases/aspects of testing are covered based on the project to ensure the project is delivered on time and budget.
• Participate and review tech test planning, test cases ensuring conformance with project scope.
• Plan business work packages and work with stakeholders to manage procedure updates, communication plan, marketing plan , user training plan as needed.
• Enhanced Business Testing (EBT) - Business PM along with business sponsor creates bunch of test case and execute lower test environment.
  
  

Implementation:

• Create business verification test plan –this is for post implementation verification in production after the cutover.
• Create business implementation plan including business activities like post implementation verification, Business work packages – like procedure updates, communication plan, Training plan.
• Warranty support – monitor issues, challenges and get them resolve tech teams.
  
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• Minimum of 10 + years of Project delivery experience with strong experience managing budgets above 5 million dollars. Previous experience in roles such as Project Manager/Program Manager or Engagement Manager with full financial accountability.
• University / College level degree.
• Good to have Project Management Certification (PMP) with strong understanding of IT project management phase.
• Experience in Banking Domain – business-oriented projects will be an advantage,
• Excellent verbal and written communication
  
  

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Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

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