Project Manager (Contract)

Taylor Rose TTKW Limited; Peterborough; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in legal services is seeking a Project Manager to oversee cross-functional projects and collaborate with external vendors. This role requires strong project management skills and experience in managing multiple IT projects within a dynamic environment. Candidates should possess excellent communication abilities and be adept at navigating ambiguity while ensuring project timelines and quality expectations are met.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with agile and waterfall project management methodologies.
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous IT projects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Plan and define project scope ensuring alignment with quality standards.
• Manage projects through all stages including testing and completion.
• Budget management and resolving project issues.

Skills

Communication

Time Management

Leadership

Problem Solving

Education

Project Management certification (e.g. Agile, PRINCE2, PMP)

Job description

Primarily this will be managing cross-functional internal workstreams but there will be collaboration required with external vendors. Working closely with senior stakeholders this role is crucial in keeping projects on track, ensuring optimised team productivity, and high-quality software delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan, estimate and define project scope ensuring it’s challenged, ‘right-sized’ and appropriate for purpose.
• Manage projects through key stages of requirements, estimation, mobilisation, execution, testing, completion and post-completion warranty, all stages in line with defined quality standards.
• Deliver projects to agreed requirements, managing against cost, quality and time measures
• Produce project status and exception reporting
• Lead project progress meetings
• Manage project dependencies, risks and issues
• Manage project resources to ensure successful outcomes
• Resolve any project exceptions or issues
• Budget management

Qualifications and Skills:

• Project Management certification preferred (e.g. Agile, PRINCE2, PMP)
• Hands-on experience with agile and waterfall project management methodologies
• Experience managing multiple simultaneous IT projects in software development and technology infrastructure
• Organised and structured with good time management skills
• Dealing with ambiguity and bringing clarity to complex situations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in working with senior stakeholders including c-suite
• Experience in the legal sector with knowledge of practice management systems and processes preferable

Company Core Values:

Aspire: To challenge convention, an entrepreneur with energy for change. To be the best that we can be

Integrate: Bring together people and systems into a cohesive force

Innovate: To creatively evolve our working practices, use our revenue and resources in a virtuous cycle of improving our people, systems and growth

Commit: To delivering excellent client experience and working with integrity, investing in long term relationships, creating a strong market position and delivering sustained commercial advantage

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