Project Manager - HR

COFOMO; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

COFOMO, a leading Canadian consulting firm in Montreal, is seeking a Project Manager for HR initiatives on-site. You will lead end-to-end technology projects, coordinating HR platform implementations, payroll integrations, and middleware, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.

The role requires governance expertise, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and vendors across the project lifecycle. Montreal on-site work is expected.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing large-scale technology projects.
• Expertise delivering end-to-end projects in complex environments.
• Experience implementing HR platforms, payroll solutions or similar integrated systems.
• Mastery of scope, schedule, budget, resource and change management practices.
• Knowledge of governance, stakeholder management, and executive reporting approaches.
• Experience coordinating vendors, integrations, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Understanding of data, security, testing, data conversion, and releases.
• Proficient in RAID and risk management practices.
• Excellent communication, organizational and coordination skills.
• Ability to operate with multiple priorities and varied stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects through initiation, development, construction, transition, production and hypercare phases.
• Maintain an integrated project plan with deliverables, milestones, resources and environments.
• Coordinate HR platform implementation, payroll integrations and middleware components.
• Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery within approved scope and quality.
• Monitor progress, identify discrepancies and implement turnaround plans when at risk.
• Mobilize internal and external resources for coordinating project components.
• Define objectives, scope, deliverables and acceptance criteria with stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain project schedule, dependencies and milestones.
• Track budget, forecasts, commitments and costs; communicate variances and risks.
• Plan resource needs and coordinate their availability with teams.
• Apply change management for scope, schedule, cost or solution approach.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and governance structures.
• Prepare progress reports on status, budget, risks and decisions.
• Foster collaboration between business, technology and vendors.
• Work with analysts to confirm needs, configurations and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate data conversion, reporting, interfaces, testing and training.
• Support go-live, transition to support and hypercare closure.
• Document decisions, actions, and lessons learned.

Skills

Large-scale projects

End-to-end delivery

HR platforms / payroll

Scope & schedule management

Governance & reporting

Vendor coordination

Integrations & multidisciplinary teams

Data security & testing

RAID & risk management

Communication & coordination

Mult-priority context

Job description

# Project Manager - HRMontrealOn-siteProgram Management and Technology LeadershipApplyWith over 30 years of recognized expertise, COFOMO is now a leading Canadian consulting firm specializing in digital and artificial intelligence. Supported by more than 3,000 experts, 10 Centers of Excellence, and 4 offices across the country, we are uniquely positioned to successfully guide our clients through their transformations. Both strategic and tactical, we help organizations across a wide range of industries thrive in today’s rapidly evolving world.## Our promiseHelp our clients succeed and maximize the impact of their transformation initiatives, turning them into powerful drivers of growth and innovation.## Job description**Here's a brief overview of the tasks and responsibilities you'll be able to:*** Lead projects through the initiation, development, construction, transition, production and hypercare phases;* Develop and maintain an integrated project plan covering deliverables, milestones, resources, environments, testing, failover, deployment, and stabilization;* Coordinate the implementation of the HR platform as well as payroll integrations, third-party solutions and middleware components;* Ensure delivery of work on time, on budget, on approved scope, quality requirements and operational readiness;* Monitor progress, identify discrepancies, and implement turnaround plans when delivery is at risk;* Mobilize internal and external resources to ensure the coordination of the different components of the project;* Define objectives, scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, and acceptance criteria with stakeholders;* Establish and maintain project schedule, critical path, dependencies, and milestones;* Track budget, forecasts, commitments, supplier efforts and actual costs, and communicate variances and emerging risks;* Plan resource needs and coordinate their availability with the various teams involved;* Apply a rigorous change management process with respect to scope, schedule, cost or solution approach;* Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment of business and technology needs;* Implement governance, decision-making mechanisms, escalation processes and follow-up activities;* Prepare progress reports outlining the status of work, milestones, budget, risks, issues and required decisions;* Foster collaboration between business teams, technology teams, and vendors;* Collaborate with analysts to confirm needs, process impacts, configuration requirements and acceptance criteria;* Work with architecture consultants to ensure alignment of solution, integrations, environments, security, and data;* Coordinate activities related to configuration, data conversion, reporting, interfaces, testing, training and release;* Support reviews and approvals at different stages of the project;* Maintain the RAID registry by tracking risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, mitigations, and escalations;* Proactively identify risks related to delivery, resources, suppliers, data, integrations, security, adoption, and operations;* Coordinate quality assurance activities, deliverable reviews and readiness assessments;* Validate that test plans adequately cover configurations, integrations, payroll impacts, reporting, data conversions, security roles, and end-to-end business processes;* Organize the go-live, transition to support and closure activities of hypercare;* Document decisions, actions, lessons learned, and all project documentation. **The profile we are looking for is as follows:*** Have significant experience in managing large-scale technology projects;* Expertise in delivering end-to-end projects in complex environments;* Experience in implementing HR platforms, payroll solutions or similar integrated systems;* Master scope, schedule, budget, resource and change management practices;* Knowledge of governance, stakeholder management, and executive reporting approaches;* Demonstrate experience coordinating vendors, integrations, and multidisciplinary teams;* Understand concepts related to data, security, testing, data conversion, and releases;* Use RAID and risk management practices effectively;* Demonstrate excellent communication, organizational and coordination skills;* Ability to operate in a context with multiple priorities and varied stakeholders.