Project Manager - Business

Mindlance; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project management firm in Toronto is seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee complex projects. Responsibilities include planning, executing, and managing project scopes, timelines, and stakeholder communications. The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of experience and be proficient in project management tools such as MS Project and Jira. This role offers competitive compensation and an onsite work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive business project-related experience.
• Advanced project management knowledge, including metrics gathering and analysis.
• Proficient in MS Office Suites, especially Excel, MS Project, Jira, and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute complex projects with high uncertainty.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budget, and resources.
• Facilitate effective project communications with stakeholders.

Skills

Project management experience

Risk and issue management

Reporting and analysis

Stakeholder communication

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Confluence

Excel

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager - Business

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Duration: 12 + Months

Daily Responsibilities

• Plan and execute projects with high level of complexity and uncertainty. Oversee project operating procedures; monitoring the productivity and performance of project team.
• Manage project scope by assessing requirements changes, determining and conveying impact on timelines, budget and resourcing.
• Develop, manage and ensure adherence to project schedules and completion of project goals.
• Raise and track risks, issues and conflicts, remove barriers. Resolve minor project risks, issues and escalate them where appropriate.
• Manage project communications including status reports to executives, stakeholders, business partners, vendors and project team. Including the effective management of project management repositories.
• Facilitate Project Sponsor awareness of changes being introduced into the organization by the project and appropriately manage organizational change management.
• Establish strong working relationships across platform teams to build influence and impact with
• Set up appropriate governance and oversight of all projects, ensuring project follow established Project Management standards

Must Have Skills

• 5+ years’ progressive business project-related experience
• Advanced project management knowledge including project plan development; scheduling capabilities; project metrics gathering, analyzing, and reporting; risk and issue management; cost/benefit analysis.
• Proficient in MS Suites including Excel MS Project Jira and Confluence (intermediate or higher)

Nice to have skills

• Internal Audit and Regulatory Compliance experience an asset
• Experience with Iterative Waterfall, Agile, Kanban delivery methodologies
• PMP certification or equivalent (preferred)
• Agile Certification (i.e Scrum Master)

Mindlance is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, equitable, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes, and work environment in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). We will be happy to work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.