Project Manager

About Compugen Compugen is Canada's largest privately-owned Technology Ally. To innovate industries, transform businesses, connect communities, and drive meaningful change, we must think bigger, reach broader, and act bolder. Through knowledge, curiosity, and collaboration, Compugen helps organizations delivering experience by design. This is what it means to be human-centered and technology-enabled.

Dreaming, designing, and delivering isn't just a mantra for us — it's a way of life. We believe that technology is the conduit, but our people – they are the connection that truly makes the magic happen!

Our Culture We are a human-centered culture where we prioritize your well-being and are invested in helping you reach your fullest potential. We're not only focused on achieving our goals — we're dedicated to helping you achieve yours.

If you're relentlessly curious, driven to make a difference, and collaborative at the core, then you belong with us. Key Responsibilities: Manage all the Project Management tasks including plan development/refinement and monitoring of timeline, resources, and budget assigned projects

• Manage the project during the initiation, design, development, implementation, and operations start-up by ensuring that resources are made available and that the project is developed and is fully operational within previously agreed time, cost and performance parameters.
• Formulate statements of problems; establishes procedures for the development and implementation of significant, new or modified project elements to solve these problems, and obtains approval thereof.
• Define and document the objectives for the project; determine budgetary requirements, the composition, roles and responsibilities and terms of reference for the project team.
• Report progress of the project on an ongoing basis and at scheduled points in the life cycle.
• Meet stakeholders and other project managers and state problems in a form capable of being solved.
• Prepare plans, charts, tables and diagrams to assist in analyzing or displaying problems; work with a variety of project management tools.
• Ensure all deliverables and milestones are completed as planned.
• Manage project change requests effectively through the approved change management process
• Develop and support project baseline schedules.
• Develop and maintain work breakdown structures.
• Produce appropriate reports and identify scheduling and/or dependency issues.
• Conduct and provide critical path analysis.
• Assist in schedule co-ordination efforts with internal and external project stakeholders.
• Project sign-off.
  
  
  

Skills & Qualifications:

• Project management training and certification including PMP (preferred) or PRINCE2
• University degree or two-year diploma in computer science or a related discipline from an accredited post-secondary institution
• 5 years of significant and recent, related experience in a leadership capacity on complex initiatives, including the ability to lead and motivate a team, delegate tasks, manage vendors, manage a budget, and provide guidance and support throughout the project lifecycle in an agile delivery environment.
• Fluent in Confluence, Jira, the Microsoft Office Suite/SharePoint, and MS Project.
• Experience delivering large scale Lean initiatives within a corporate setting.
• Experience with the SAFE Framework and agile delivery an asset.
• Experience working with external vendors within a cloud environment.
  
  
  

Equity Statement At Compugen, we're committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, actively recruiting from all groups. We provide accommodation upon request to all applicants during the recruitment process. At Compugen, we believe that everyone deserves a seat at the table. If you require an accommodation, our People & Culture representative will work with you to meet your needs.

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