Project Manager

Symbiotic Group; Canada; Sur place; CAD 100 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Symbiotic Digital is seeking an experienced Project Manager, Strategy & Impact Business Enablement for a 6-month engagement in Canada. You will lead projects end-to-end, from initiation to close-out, coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners.

The role emphasizes governance, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. Ideal candidates bring 5–8 years of business experience with 3–4 years leading initiatives; PMP/PRINCE2 is preferred.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of business experience with at least 3-4 years leading projects or transformations.
• Experience managing projects through all lifecycle phases.
• Experience developing charters, business cases, PM plans, budgets, and governance.
• Experience leading requirements workshops and stakeholder interviews.
• Experience scoping, documenting assumptions, and managing scope changes.
• Experience facilitating alignment across multiple units and vendors.
• Experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.

Responsabilités

• Lead projects or initiatives through all phases of the lifecycle.
• Plan, initiate, and govern project work and deliverables.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to uncover business needs.
• Develop and maintain PM plans, schedules, and risk/issue logs.
• Coordinate planning, prioritization, and delivery across teams and vendors.
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery approaches with backlog management and roadmap planning.
• Communicate updates and options to sponsors and governance bodies.

Connaissances

Project planning

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Governance & reporting

Risk management

Agile/hybrid delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Communication & facilitation

Microsoft 365

Formation

Post-secondary education in Project Management or related discipline

PM certification (PMP or PRINCE2)

Outils

Microsoft 365

Project management tools (scheduling, backlog, reporting)

Description du poste

Duration: 6 months (with possibility of extension)

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager, Strategy & Impact Business Enablement for a net-new role.

The Project Manager will lead projects and business initiatives through the full project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out.

The successful candidate will bring strong project delivery, business analysis, requirements gathering, stakeholder management, governance, risk management, and cross-functional leadership capabilities. The role will also support workstreams involving communications, marketing, digital delivery, content, events, partnerships, and stakeholder engagement.

Required Experience

• 5-8 years of business experience, including at least 3-4 years leading projects, programs, initiatives, organizational change efforts, or business transformation activities.
• Experience independently managing projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, implementation, and close-out.
• Experience developing project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, communication plans, and status reporting processes.
• Experience leading requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, process-mapping workshops, backlog creation activities, and solution-definition discussions.
• Experience establishing scope boundaries, documenting assumptions and constraints, managing project scope, and assessing impacts arising from proposed scope changes.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder alignment and consensus-building across multiple business units, leadership groups, subject matter experts, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Experience managing project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests while providing recommendations and escalation options to sponsors and governance bodies.
• Experience leading Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional project delivery approaches, including backlog management, sprint planning, roadmap planning, governance reviews, and delivery oversight.
• Experience supporting cross-functional projects involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, organizational change, and executive visibility.
• Experience preparing and presenting project updates, options, recommendations, risks, issues, and decisions to sponsors, steering committees, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Public Relations, Marketing, Commerce, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Professional project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or an equivalent recognized certification.
• In addition to the required experience listed above, the preferred candidate will have direct experience, working knowledge, or an educational background in the following areas.
• Communications & Engagement: Experience supporting communications, public engagement, storytelling, advocacy, awareness, or brand-related initiatives involving diverse stakeholder groups.
• Stakeholder Partnerships: Experience coordinating initiatives involving external partners, sponsors, customers, industry organizations, government stakeholders, vendors, or cross-functional teams.
• Marketing & Digital Media Delivery: Experience leading or coordinating marketing, events, content production, digital platforms, campaigns, activations, or other externally facing deliverables.

Required Skills

• Advanced project planning, execution, monitoring, and close-out capabilities.
• Strong requirements-gathering, business analysis, and scope-definition skills.
• Ability to establish clear scope boundaries and facilitate discussions that distinguish requirements, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and change requests.
• Demonstrated capability to facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder discussions to uncover business needs, identify risks, and develop practical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, negotiate, and gain alignment across diverse groups and competing interests.
• Advanced risk, issue, dependency, and change-management capabilities.
• Strong governance and decision-support skills, including preparation of executive presentations, status reports, steering committee materials, and recommendations.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to distill complex information into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong facilitation and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to identify, assess, and manage project interdependencies, competing priorities, and organizational impacts.
• Strong organizational, analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience managing and coordinating cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
• Ability to coach stakeholders and team members on project delivery practices, governance expectations, and project management methodologies.
• Experience using Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, backlog management, reporting, and collaboration tools.
• Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies, including their appropriate application within varying delivery environments.

Description of Duties

• Lead one or more projects or initiatives through all phases of the project lifecycle, ensuring successful delivery of scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes.
• Lead discovery, planning, and requirements-gathering activities to establish clear business objectives, scope boundaries, success measures, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, planning sessions, and governance discussions to support informed decision-making and project success.
• Develop and maintain project management plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency logs, communication plans, governance processes, and status reporting mechanisms.
• Manage project scope by assessing proposed changes, identifying impacts, preparing recommendations, and facilitating appropriate governance decisions.
• Coordinate the planning, prioritization, delivery, and approval of project deliverables across internal teams, external vendors, consultants, and stakeholders to ensure work is completed on time and aligned to project objectives.
• Coordinate and support the delivery of communications, marketing, digital, content, event, partnership, or stakeholder‑engagement workstreams by facilitating planning, scheduling, issue resolution, dependency management, approvals, and stakeholder alignment.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, business leaders, and delivery teams while leading cross‑functional teams to ensure effective collaboration, communication, accountability, and successful delivery outcomes.
• Monitor project performance and proactively identify, assess, communicate, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery challenges.
• Prepare and present project updates, options analyses, recommendations, and decision materials for project sponsors, governance bodies, and executive stakeholders.
• Support Agile and hybrid delivery approaches through backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery practices, governance processes, requirements‑gathering approaches, stakeholder engagement practices, and organizational project management maturity.

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve customers in two ways, we provide:

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Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.