SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER - IT – Montreal

BDC; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BDC as a Senior Project Manager in IT and lead ambitious economic projects while fostering a collaborative environment. You will manage large-scale projects, engage with multiple departments, and ensure successful project delivery. Ideal candidates bring a decade of management experience, a degree in a relevant field, and demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills.

Benefits

Flexible and competitive benefits

Defined Benefit Pension Plan

Wellness and health care spending account

Paid vacation, personal and sick days

Opportunities for learning and development

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience in managing large-scale projects (5M budget, team of 10+).
• Experience in Agile projects is essential.
• Professional certification in project management is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing business and digital projects across various departments.
• Defining and monitoring project scope, plans, budgets, and timelines.
• Articulating project management concepts to stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Problem Solving

Organizational skills

Communication

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Administration, IT or equivalent

Job description

We are banking at another level.

Choosing BDC as your employer means working in a healthy, inclusive, and skilled workplace that puts forward the best conditions to bring together unique teams where employees are empowered to act. It also means being at the centre of ambitious economic and financial projects to see further and to do things differently, to fuel the success of Canadian entrepreneurs.

Choosing BDC as your employer also means:

• Flexible and competitive benefits, including an Employee Savings and Investment Plan where BDC matches part of your voluntary contributions, a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, a $750 wellness and health care spending account, to name a few

• In addition to paid vacation each year, five personal days, sick days as necessary, and our offices are closed from December 25 to January 1

• A hybrid work model that truly balances work and personal life

• Opportunities for learning, training and development, and much more...

POSITION OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager - IT whose keen business acumen and excellent communication skills are matched by his or her team spirit and strategic thinking. If client connection and ethics are values dear to your heart, you are in the right place!

CHALLENGES TO BE MET

You will be asked to work and contribute at all stages, including the following:

• You will be responsible for managing business and digital projects. You will work closely with colleagues, from Marketing, Financing, Advisory Services, Finance, HR, etc., to executive levels.

• You will be responsible for project management from initiation to post-implementation. You will work in a versatile and dynamic project environment, in the midst of an agile transformation focused on collaboration and delivery optimization.

• You will define and monitor scope, project plans, dependencies, budgets, timeline, resources allocation and sourcing, risk and issues, mitigation measures, changes, and quality of deliverables at any stage of the process. You have to be able to understand and challenge both the technical and application aspects of the projects.

• To ensure the success of projects, you will break down and explain project management concepts and methodologies to demonstrate their value to your internal customers.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

If you can answer “YES” to the following questions, you may be just the person we are looking for:

• Do you have a Bachelor's degree in Administration, in IT or equivalent?

• Do you have at least 10 years of experience in managing large-scale projects (5M and plus budget, team of 10 and plus)?

• Do you have experience in Agile projects?

• Do you demonstrate courage in your decision-making and feel accountable to navigate challenges?

• Are you seen as a leader from your colleagues?

• Are you organized, diplomatic, and able to manage several projects at the same time?

• Do you have an analytical mind and are you good at solving problems?

• Are you able to deconstruct complex scenarios into coherent and actionable tasks?

• Do you have exceptional documentation and presentation skills to articulate the problems (or the requests) to be easily comprehensible to all stakeholders?

• Are you curious to learn, to evolve your skills and to share with others? Do you have any professional certification in the field of project management?

• Do you easily adopt new technologies and are you always looking for continuous improvement?

• Are you bilingual (French and English)?

You will stand out in our selection process if your positive leadership makes it possible for you to quickly gain credibility and foster trusting relationships. You are an excellent team leader, communicator, and negotiator with the ability to influence decisions. You also have the capacity to listen to and support stakeholders throughout the project life cycle and to clearly articulate issues and options/solutions. You are dynamic, autonomous, innovative, organized, results-oriented and at ease when working with ambiguity.

Proudly one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, we are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible environment where all employees can thrive and feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. If you require an accommodation to complete your application, please do not hesitate to contact us at [e-mail] .

While we appreciate all applications, we advise that only the candidates selected to participate in the recruitment process will be contacted.