Senior IT Project Manager

Humankind Global Recruitment; Halifax; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Humankind Global Recruitment is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead medium to large IT initiatives across cloud, data, security, and infrastructure. You will own projects end-to-end from inception to deployment and handover, coordinating diverse teams across time zones and vendors.

The role requires strong leadership, risk management, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT project management experience delivering complex, multi-stream infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, priorities and stakeholders in fast-paced environments.
• Strong leadership, communication and relationship-building skills across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Managing medium to large, complex IT projects across multiple workstreams, business teams and external vendors, ensuring service continuity and minimal business disruption.
• Managing the full project lifecycle from initiation through to closure, including requirements, planning, operational readiness and BAU handover.
• Defining and managing project objectives, scope, timelines, budgets, milestones and deliverables with sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Leading cross-functional project teams, managing capacity, resolving conflicts and competing priorities, and ensuring commitments are delivered.
• Proactively managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions, with appropriate escalation and mitigation.
• Managing stakeholder relationships and communications, providing regular updates on progress, risks, issues, changes and project outcomes.
• Ensuring deliverables meet agreed acceptance criteria while driving continuous improvements to project delivery, efficiency and ways of working.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Agile

Waterfall

Hybrid delivery

Risk management

Leadership

Communication

PMP/PRINCE2/ITIL

Job description

Our client a dynamic Information Technology services company that partners with leading global organizations to deliver innovative, high-quality IT solutions is looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to join their growing team.

As Senior IT Project Manager, you will be tasked with a range of strategic IT projects, owning their entire life cycle from inception to deployment, including operational handover. These projects can range from Data Centre Technology transformation, Security, Infrastructure, and Corporate IT initiatives.

You will be an enthusiastic and dynamic professional who is passionate about delivering a great product and should be excited by the challenges associated with a wide range of projects. The position requires someone who is able to work within a very diverse team and for a wide array of stakeholders in different time zones (both technical and non-technical), and has strong organizational and planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing medium to large, complex IT projects across multiple workstreams, business teams and external vendors, ensuring service continuity and minimal business disruption.
• Managing the full project lifecycle from initiation through to closure, including requirements, planning, operational readiness and BAU handover.
• Defining and managing project objectives, scope, timelines, budgets, milestones and deliverables with sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Leading cross-functional project teams, managing capacity, resolving conflicts and competing priorities, and ensuring commitments are delivered.
• Proactively managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions, with appropriate escalation and mitigation.
• Managing stakeholder relationships and communications, providing regular updates on progress, risks, issues, changes and project outcomes.
• Ensuring deliverables meet agreed acceptance criteria while driving continuous improvements to project delivery, efficiency and ways of working.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT project management experience, delivering complex, multi-stream infrastructure projects across cloud, network, data, security, platforms and data centres.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects, priorities and stakeholders in fast-paced environments, consistently meeting tight deadlines and maintaining quality.
• Strong leadership, communication and relationship-building skills, with experience working across cross-functional teams, customers and third-party vendors.
• Highly organized and adaptable, with strong attention to detail and experience coordinating teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Experienced in risk, issue, resource and dependency management, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving challenges.
• Experienced in Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methodologies, with knowledge of ITIL, IT infrastructure, networking, storage, virtualisation, cloud and high-availability platforms.
• Strong proficiency with project management tools and communication of complex technical and non-technical concepts; PMP/PRINCE2/ITIL certification and willingness to travel are advantageous.
• Willingness to travel on an ad hoc basis - as required

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team. The company offers a competitive compensation package, medical & health benefits and RRSP matching.