Project Manager - Remote

Compugen Inc; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Project Manager to oversee a year-long project contract beginning in September, available for remote work within Canada. The candidate will manage project phases and coordinate with stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery, requiring PMP certification and extensive experience in project management.

Qualifications

• Over 7 years of experience in Project Management roles.
• PMP designation required.
• Experience in managing significant projects with successful delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage project initiation, design, development, implementation, and operation.
• Report ongoing project progress against scheduled milestones.
• Utilize project management tools for analysis and progress.

Skills

Project Management

Problem Solving

Stakeholder Communication

Risk Management

Time Management

Education

PMP Certification

Job description

About Compugen Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled.

Dreaming, designing, and delivering isn't just a mantra for us — it's a way of life. We believe that technology is the conduit, but our people – they are the connection that truly makes the magic happen!

Our Culture We are a human-centered culture where we prioritize your well-being and are invested in helping you reach your fullest potential. We're not only focused on achieving our goals — we're dedicated to helping you achieve yours.

If you're relentlessly curious, driven to make a difference, and collaborative at the core, then you belong with us.

Position Overview: Compugen is seeking a Project Manager for a 1 year contract working remotely starting in September. Candidate must currently reside within Canada and be available to work CT.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the project during the initiation, design, development, implementation, and operations start-up by ensuring that resources are made available and that the project is developed and is fully operational within previously agreed time, cost and performance parameters.
• Formulate statements of problems; establishes procedures for the development and implementation of significant, new or modified project elements to solve these problems, and obtains approval thereof.
• Define and document the objectives for the project; determine budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities and terms of reference for the project team.
• Report progress of the project on an ongoing basis and at scheduled points in the life cycle.
• Meet stakeholders and other project managers and state problems in a form capable of being solved.
• Prepare plans, charts, tables and diagrams to assist in analyzing or displaying problems; work with a variety of project management tools.
• Ensure all deliverables and milestones are completed as planned.
• Manage Project Change Requests effectively through the approved Change Management process
• Develop and support project baseline schedules.
• Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structures.
• Produce appropriate reports and identify scheduling and/or dependency issues.
• Conduct and provide critical path analysis.
• Assist in Schedule Co-ordination efforts with internal and external project stakeholders.
• Project sign-off.
  
  
  

Skills & Qualifications:

• PMP designation and over 7 years of experience in Project Management related roles.
  
  
  

Equity Statement At Compugen, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We actively recruit from all groups, including women, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. We recognize the importance of removing barriers to participation and provide accommodation upon request to all applicants throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, our People & Culture representative will work with you to meet your needs in a confidential and respectful manner. We believe everyone deserves a seat at the table-and we are taking deliberate action to make this a reality.

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