Senior Project Manager
Stantec Consulting International Ltd.
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Job summary
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in managing enterprise IT projects.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple high-impact projects in parallel.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of enterprise-wide technology projects across the full lifecycle.
- Facilitate steering committee meetings and elevate risks as per PMO standards.
- Contribute to the enhancement of tools, templates, and best practices.
Skills
Education
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Job description
At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.
Join Stantec’s IT PMO to drive delivery of strategic enterprise IT projects in alignment with our governance framework and organizational priorities. As a Senior Project Manager, you will manage cross-functional projects from initiation through to closure, ensuring outcomes are delivered on time, on budget, and in alignment with the approved scope. You will follow and champion the PMO governance, leveraging ServiceNow SPM, and ensuring compliance with milestones, steering committee requirements, and project change control.
This role requires strong leadership, communication, and coordination skills, as well as the ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes across business units and IT.
- Lead the delivery of enterprise-wide technology projects across the full lifecycle (Initiation, Planning, Execution, Delivery, and Closure).
- Develop, baseline, and manage project schedules, budgets, and resource plans in alignment with PMO governance.
- Facilitate steering committee meetings and elevate risks, issues, and change requests as per PMO standards.
- Support the development of the initiatives’ requests (demands in SPM) which is a pre-requisite before initiative becomes a project.
- Ensure project compliance with key PMO processes including:
- High-Level and Detailed Requirements documentation.
- Key Milestone tracking for Steering visibility and Milestones for team execution.
- Resource planning (request resource and facilitate approvals from Resource Managers).
- Schedule baselining and PCR initiation when required.
- Maintain all project records in ServiceNow SPM, including RAID items and health reporting, project schedule.
- Act as the primary point of contact for business and technical stakeholders.
- Communicate status, risks, issues, and decisions to sponsors and steering committees.
- Align with the PMO on expectations, governance adherence, and methodology evolution.
- Provide lessons learned and participate in PMO feedback loops.
- Contribute to the enhancement of tools, templates, and best practices.
- Contribute to the evolution of the PMO Governance and Methodology
Required:
- 7+ years of experience in managing enterprise IT projects.
- Strong understanding of project governance frameworks and tools (e.g., ServiceNow SPM, Jira, Confluence).
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- Experience with cross-functional teams and working across business and technology domains.
- Ability to manage multiple high-impact projects in parallel.
- Experience with managing programs and complex projects across multiple domains such as software development initiatives across both on-premises and cloud environments, as well as projects involving ERP systems, data center infrastructure, and network improvements.
- Experience in reporting to steering committees and facilitating executive-level discussions.
- Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- PMP, Prince2, or equivalent project management certification.
- Projects are delivered with clear milestones, scope control, and predictable outcomes.
- Steering Committees are engaged, informed, and confident in delivery progress.
- Governance artifacts (charter, milestone tracking, RAID logs, status updates) are complete and audit ready.
- IT PMO standards are applied consistently, and opportunities for improvement are brought forward.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Primary Location: Canada | AB | Edmonton
Organization: BC-1374 IT Services-CA Corporate
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: Replacement
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 01/05/2026 08:05:23
Req ID: 1005695
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