Project Manager, Business Transformation

Grant Thornton; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A large and growing professional services firm is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join their team in Toronto. The role involves leading business transformation projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and effectively managing stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate should have 5-7 years of experience in project management, particularly in business transformations. The position offers benefits including profit sharing and wellness programs, with a supportive and collaborative culture.

Benefits

Profit sharing

Flex days

Wellness benefits

Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of project management experience focused on business transformation.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope and objectives with stakeholders.
• Monitor project benefits realization and manage the project lifecycle.
• Develop project plans, balancing priorities and managing risks.

Skills

Project Management

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Tools

Project Management software

Project Portfolio Management software

Job description

Overview

Doane Grant Thornton is a large and growing professional services firm that values community and collaboration. We employ about 3000 people across Canada and are focused on a purpose-driven culture that supports colleagues, clients and the communities where we work.

Doane Grant Thornton’s Business Transformation Team drives organizational change to enhance firm performance and facilitate the achievement of strategic objectives. We are seeking an experienced Project Manager, Business Transformation to join our National Team based in Toronto, focused on driving business transformation projects, aligning business SMEs and stakeholders on the delivery of technical projects, and delivering tangible business outcomes. The ideal candidate will be a Project Manager with broad experience leading business transformations with a change management and stakeholder-focused mindset.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define business transformation objectives at a project level, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategic priorities.
• Create charters with stakeholders and project sponsors to define project scope and objectives, desired business outcomes, assumptions, constraints, and risks.
• Monitor the realization of project benefits, ensuring that projects deliver their expected outcomes.
• Undertake multiple projects and manage them throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain project plans with dependencies, predecessors, and milestones, ensuring appropriate governance and control processes over project changes.
• Proactively manage project schedule and scope, balancing priorities and determining the impact on budget, time and risks.
• Manage project team and stakeholder resources effectively in the planning and execution of the project.
• Manage external vendors and third parties including negotiations, onboarding and execution of Statements of Work.
• Provide project status updates to various stakeholders and chair Steering Committees to facilitate program governance decisions and ensure buy-in for project success.
• Lead project closure initiatives and identify opportunities for continuous improvement through activities such as lessons learned surveys and vendor offboarding.
• Escalate project challenges, risks and work across teams to ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place.
• Resolve issues and conflicts, remove barriers, and document project risks, challenges, and constraints. Act as an escalation point for potential risks and ensure appropriate documentation.
• Define priorities, roles and responsibilities to ensure collaborative delivery across cross-functional teams, including IT, L&D, Communications, and other groups.
• Partner with IT Project Managers on large technology initiatives to ensure end-to-end delivery.
• Assess impact on all areas of the business and work with Business Transformation Team colleagues to develop change management strategies to ensure successful implementations and high adoption of changes.
• Facilitate the transition of responsibilities to Business Owners including appropriate knowledge transfer (e.g., documentation and training).
• Coach team members on business transformation and project management methodologies and tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, post-secondary education, and/or equivalent work experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or comparable certification is preferred.
• 5–7 years of project management experience, with a focus on large business transformation initiatives, process improvements, people transformations, and driving change management, learning and communications components of technology initiatives.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects with competing priorities.
• Experienced user of Project Management and Project Portfolio Management software.
• Strong knowledge of project management best practices and standards.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills for prioritizing projects, managing team members and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Comfortable working across the organization with existing and new partners and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including ability to create and present to all organizational levels.
• Resourceful, innovative, with strong problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Collaborative, communicative and energizing management style.
• Experience in a professional services firm is an asset.

What’s in it for you?

Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more.

Culture

Our special culture shines through when we connect in person. We are exploring a model where teams are together in the office 4 days per week. Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?