Senior 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!

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Position Overview: Compugen is seeking a Senior Project Manager for an initial 1 year contract working remotely. Candidates must currently reside within Canada and available to work CT.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing intricate cross-functional project plans, which include integrated deliverables, timelines, and dependencies across various streams, along with associated risks. By adhering to Agile practices and ceremonies and utilizing Azure DevOps, the Senior Project Manager coordinates and leads the project stream, ensuring the development and execution of project plans are completed within the expected timelines and meet quality standards. This role also involves maintaining the RAID process (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions) for the project stream and escalating issues as necessary.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creates, executes, and manages project stream plans, following Agile methodology, practices, and ceremonies (Program Increment Planning, Sprint Planning, and Retrospectives), based on direction and priorities established by Operational Business Champion and stream leads.
• Manages the stream schedule, financials,milestones, deliverables, and action items for projects according to gating methodology (financial & deliverable based.
• Organizes and oversees release of key deliverables for acceptor/approver.
• Manages and coordinates activities to ensure tasks are executed according to the plan and objectives. Escalate issues as appropriate and drives for resolution.
• Leads project discussions and participates as an active member of the project team.
• Understands the nature of work performed by stream and provides recommendations on best practices to plan and execute to meet expected timelines and quality deliverables.
• Logs, maintains, and escalates RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions) on behalf of project stream using project software tool, Azure DevOps. Follows up and takes action as required.
• Facilitates daily and weekly Scrums for the stream
• Attends Scrum X3 and provides updates on behalf of the stream, including risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers.
• Proactively identifies and manages interdependencies and constraints between streams to reduce delivery risk.
• Ensures the appropriate governance structure is maintained on the project.
• Contributes to defining and assessing project stream success and readiness criterion factors and measurements.
• Collaborates and shares knowledge with Nova Project Management Team to ensure consistency among streams and leverage best practices to ensure overall project delivery and success. Works closely to resolve conflicts and competing priorities between streams.
  
  
  

Skills & Qualifications:

• Exceptional vendor contract experience including;
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent contract awareness
• Excellent Contract risk management such as contract milestone indemnity, terms, deliverables, etc..
• Excellent conflict resolution skills as the main liaison between vendors and MPI
• 5 y+ years work experience on program with large System Integrator
  
  
  

Education:

• Degree in Business, Commerce, or related discipline.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, designation or equivalent.
• Supplementary courses related to Project Management, i.e. Risk Management, Program Management, and Agile Project Management, are an asset.
  
  
  

Experience:

• Eight to ten years’ related experience, including five years managing medium to large projects and special initiatives. This includes high visibility projects that involve large scope and budgets, multiple system changes, and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience in an Agile environment an asset.
  
  
  

Or an equivalent combination of the above.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate a diversified work group/project team.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, parallel projects or multiple streams of work on a very large project.
• Strong strategic and tactical planning skills, with the ability to align business and technology planning.
• Superior interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to present information effectively to various audiences.
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Strong project management skills, including Work Breakdown Structures, requirements management, deliverables, and budget allocations.
• Experience in requirements gathering and requirements documentation.
• Ability to manage time and set priorities with the primary goal of completing assignments on time.
• Demonstrated financial project management skills and experience.
• Demonstrated vendor contract management skills and experience.
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing deadlines and business demands.
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Strong customer service values.
• Strong conceptual and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Suite of software including Visio, SharePoint, and MS Project.
• Experience in Business Case development and delivery.
  
  
  

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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