Senior Project Manager
Procom
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Calgary, AB
Contract type: Full time
Senior Project Manager:
On behalf of our railway client, Procom is seeking a
Senior Project Manager for a 7-month contract.
Senior Project Manager
Job Details:
Our valued client requires a
Senior Project Manager skilled in agile development practices and vendor management for outsourced development.
Senior Project Manager
Responsibilities:
Project Initiation
- Work with technical and business leaders to define project investment opportunities, including scope, schedule, budget, and benefits
- Identify and negotiate project resource requirements with delivery organizations (internal & external), set delivery expectations, and evaluate delivery performance.
- Direct accountability for planning and executing one or more Agile or Waterfall projects as solution scope requires to project performance criteria (on time, within scope, on budget, and meeting quality standards) as defined in the project statement(s);
- Develop project estimate basis using Agile software development estimation techniques
- Work with Product and resource owners to identify internal and external stakeholders, and then lead stakeholders management activities throughout the project life cycle;
- Own the development and review of project requirements with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and Technical Leads to ensure project will deliver to the planned benefits
- Facilitate interactions between Technical Leads, Project Delivery Staff, and QA Leads to ensure that project delivery and testing completion are aligned
- Facilitate cross-departmental project delivery activities, and gain commitment for delivery while managing competing demands, to ensure that project delivery dates are not compromised
- Plan project implementations, facilitate implementation dry runs, and lead Go live activities to ensure production implementations do not adversely impact the production environment
- Escalate material issues and risks to leadership in a timely fashion
- Ensure that Organizational Change Management activities are completed to drive product adoption
- Ensure that Transition to Support is planned for, completed, and approved so that the support organization can support all new or modified systems
- Follow IS PMO processes regarding deliverables, stage gates, and controls in accordance with SOX and management controls compliance.
- Create and maintain project financials across project cost budget managed in SAP and Excel; provide accurate and timely project financial submissions.
- Develop, monitor and control all aspects of project delivery in accordance with CPKC, IS PMO and project management best practices
- Develop, and support the development, of presentations to senior management regarding project scope, schedule, budget, and current status updates.
- Provide project leadership: set clear goals, engage team members, resolve conflict and recognize team member contributions appropriately.
- Conduct regular lessons learned sessions to ensure continuous improvement of project teams.
Must Have Skills:
- 10+ years of experience leading large, multi-stakeholder business focused application development IS projects.
- Rapidly learn new business processes and operating practices and apply this knowledge to improve project planning and delivery.
- Self-starter, the successful candidate demonstrates strong accountability and pride of ownership to deliver quality solutions.
- Deliver Custom Development, and/or Application Integration projects using primary Iterative, Agile or Waterfall Project methodologies.
- Lead SOW development, participate in contract negotiations, and manage Vendors and materials delivery.
- Hands-on experience using Jira and Microsoft Project to plan and deliver projects
- Ability to communicate and influence decision making at executive and working levels, with demonstrated prioritization and conflict resolution experience.
- Advanced project management practical expertise across knowledge areas: scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communication, risk and procurement and integration management.
- Project Management Professional certificate (PMP) or equivalent experience
Nice to Have Skills:
- PMI-ACP or Certified Scrum Master would be considered an asset
Assignment Length:
- 7 months
Job Location:
- Calgary, Alberta - On Site
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