RQ09158 - Project Manager/Leader - Senior

Rubicon Path; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a seasoned project manager to lead large-scale, complex IT initiatives. This role involves managing multi-million dollar projects, ensuring compliance with standards, and delivering on time and within budget. You will collaborate with various teams, oversee project budgets, and implement best practices in project management. If you are passionate about driving change and have extensive experience in enterprise project management, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking organization that values innovation and excellence in project delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise project management experience across business and I&T teams.
• Experience managing multi-year, multi-million dollar projects.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Provides project management for large-scale, complex OPS I&T initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time.
• Develops and manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.

Skills

Enterprise Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Budget Management

Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Oracle Siebel CRM

Microsoft Office Tools

Documentation Skills

Client Relationship Management

Tools

Jira

Trello

Microsoft Project

KanBan

Workamajig

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management for large-scale, complex, high-profile, and high-risk OPS I&IT initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, within scope and budget, focusing on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies, and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks.

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements to create and maintain detailed project schedules and/or integrated plans.
• Monitors and forecasts project costs, providing reports and input to meet targets.
• Develops and manages project schedules, deliverables, and scope.
• Promotes I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies.
• Directs project teams to ensure timely delivery of project deliverables in compliance with government and ministry standards.
• Coordinates and monitors project processes, developing and communicating guidelines and procedures.
• Sources, selects, and on-boards team members across disciplines, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and setting task/deliverable/performance expectations for both OPS unionized employees and fee-for-service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and interpersonal conflicts, negotiates resourcing changes, and shares knowledge among team members to meet project objectives and deliverables.
• Develops complex project budgets considering multiple funding sources and cross-ministry dependencies.
• Manages large project budgets, ensuring fiscal control and accountability, including estimates, forecasts, and reconciliation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks to senior executives, recommending mitigation strategies.
• Participates in steering committees and stakeholder forums.
• Provides project, program, and portfolio reports to multi-stakeholder groups at senior levels.
• Implements strategies to overcome resistance to change and leverages support during all project stages.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management, ensuring system quality and resource control.
• Maintains awareness of emerging I&IT trends and directions, adapting and leading projects accordingly.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).
• Understanding of Information Management principles, policies, and practices.
• Familiarity with Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) regulations and standards.
• Ability to recommend software, hardware, and technology resources.
• Experience managing project monitoring, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring project effectiveness.
• Ability to identify conflicts between project and functional areas and develop responses.
• Skills in managing client relationships, managing expectations, and providing updates.

Skills, Experience, and Skill Set Requirements:

Project Management - 35%

• 10+ years of enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
• Experience managing multi-year, multi-million dollar projects.
• Managing stakeholders, risks, changes, issues, time, scope, and resources.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Teams) and collaboration tools (Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project, KanBan, Workamajig).
• Experience validating financial forecasts, cost assumptions, and resource reconciliation.
• Proven ability to define business and technical requirements, objectives, and outcomes.
• Ability to collaborate with policy, IT, legal, communication, and privacy teams.

Technical, Deployment, and Project Integration Skills - 35%

• Experience with various software development methodologies, including Agile/Scrum.
• Experience with IT project management involving Oracle Siebel CRM.
• Experience with IT infrastructure deployment and rollout.
• Leading large-scale technology procurements and project delivery.
• Understanding of technologies and processes for end-to-end electronic solutions.
• Technical knowledge of Oracle and deployment environments.
• Experience leading QA activities.

Documentation Skills - 20%

• Creating privacy, financial, communication, and IT documentation such as business cases, Privacy Impact Assessments, Threat Impact Assessments, Requests for Service, and Requests for Information.

Public Sector Experience - 10%

• Experience with Public Sector ITIL processes and government-specific project management and procurement procedures.

Must Have:

• 10+ years of enterprise project management experience across business and I&IT teams.
• Experience managing multi-year, multi-million dollar projects.
• Experience with Oracle Siebel CRM in IT project management.