Project Manager (junior to intermediate level)

Focus Systems Inc.; Regina; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus Systems Inc. is seeking a junior- to intermediate-level project manager to provide coordination and delivery support for a large-scale transformation.

This role supports tactical delivery, PMO governance, and day-to-day coordination across project teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership. The successful candidate will report to the Director, Enterprise PMO, adhere to project management standards, and ensure delivery within scope, schedule, and budget.

Qualifications

• Three to seven years of proven IT project management experience.
• PMP certification.
• Three to seven years of proven vendor management experience.
• Experience in a PMO environment and with cross-functional project teams.
• Experience on an agile or hybrid project.
• Proficiency with project management software.
• Excellent written skills and disciplined project records management.
• Interpersonal, management, and communication skills at all levels.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, multitasking, planning and resource planning capabilities.
• Availability to work primarily on-site in Regina, SK.

Responsibilities

• Perform tactical project management activities and support project planning and reporting.
• Coordinate tasks, activities, work packages, dependencies, and interdependencies across teams, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Track action items, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and deliverables; follow up and escalate where appropriate.
• Maintain project artifacts, schedules, work plans, action and decision logs, risk registers, issue logs, and dependency trackers.
• Support governance meetings, dashboards, project controls, presentations, briefing materials, and reporting processes.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and working sessions; document decisions, outcomes, actions, and follow-up activities.
• Liaise with project teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership to support communication and alignment.
• Assist with project plans, resource plans, budgets, forecasts, and consolidated reporting to leadership and governance bodies.
• Monitor progress against approved scope, schedule, budget, milestones, deadlines, dependencies, and critical-path activities.
• Support corrective action planning, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement in delivery practices.
• Ensure compliance with project management standards, methodologies, reporting requirements, governance requirements, and record-management practices.

Skills

IT project management

PMO experience

Vendor management

Cross-functional teams

Agile / hybrid delivery

Education

PMP certification

Project management education

Tools

Project management software

Job description

Focus Systems is seeking a qualified junior- to intermediate-level project manager to provide project coordination and delivery support for a large-scale transformational initiative.

If you have hands-on experience supporting IT projects in a PMO environment, coordinating cross-functional teams and vendors, maintaining disciplined project controls, and contributing to agile or hybrid delivery, this is an opportunity to support a complex initiative with broad stakeholder and governance needs.

• Work Arrangement: Primarily on-site for the duration of the engagement, with consideration of occasional offsite work
• Renewal Options: Two additional one-year renewals

Role Overview

The junior-to-intermediate project manager will provide tactical delivery, PMO and governance support, reporting, accountability, and day-to-day coordination across project teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership.

The successful candidate will functionally report to the Director, Enterprise Project Management Office, adhere to project management standards and governance processes, and remain accountable to the designated Program Director for the delivery of assigned programs and projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform tactical project management activities and support project planning and reporting.
• Coordinate tasks, activities, work packages, dependencies, and interdependencies across teams, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Track action items, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and deliverables; follow up and escalate where appropriate.
• Maintain project artifacts, schedules, work plans, action and decision logs, risk registers, issue logs, and dependency trackers.
• Support governance meetings, dashboards, project controls, presentations, briefing materials, and reporting processes.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and working sessions; document decisions, outcomes, actions, and follow-up activities.
• Liaise with project teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and leadership to support communication and alignment.
• Assist with project plans, resource plans, budgets, forecasts, and consolidated reporting to leadership and governance bodies.
• Monitor progress against approved scope, schedule, budget, milestones, deadlines, dependencies, and critical-path activities.
• Support corrective action planning, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement in delivery practices.
• Ensure compliance with project management standards, methodologies, reporting requirements, governance requirements, and record-management practices.

Required Qualifications

• Three to seven years of proven IT project management experience in a project management-related role.
• Project management education and/or certification, such as PMP.
• Three to seven years of proven vendor management experience.
• Proven experience working in a PMO environment and with cross-functional project teams.
• Experience working on an agile or hybrid project.
• Proficiency with project management software.
• Excellent written skills and a disciplined approach to managing project records.
• Demonstrated interpersonal, management, and communication skills at all organizational levels.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, multitasking, project planning, and resource planning capabilities.
• Proven ability to analyze complex problems and identify practical, innovative solutions.
• Availability and ability to work primarily on-site in Regina, SK.