Project Manager
Spirit Omega Inc.
Date: 6 hours ago
City: Toronto, ON
Salary:
CA$100
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CA$110
per hour
Contract type: Full time

PROJECT MANAGER
Location: Predominantly remote, with minimal travel required (EDT time zone)
Pay Rate: 110.00 per hour
Duration: 8 months
Roles and Responsibilities
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- Drive and lead cross-functional teams in the delivery of programs, projects, and deployment efforts for assigned initiatives
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across Technology, Businesses, and Member Firms. Meet regularly with these individuals to ensure continued alignment with business and organizational needs across assigned programs/projects
- Develop and demonstrate strong business knowledge and technical competency on assigned initiatives
- Establish effective and appropriate project/program governance
- Influence and foster an environment of shared accountability across initiatives
- Manage the day-to-day activities of project managers, deployment, and other team members on assigned projects/programs
- Work with all stakeholders to identify and confirm necessary project/program and deployment resources throughout the project lifecycle and resolves resource availability conflicts across assigned initiatives
- Build detailed program/project and deployment master schedules and promote collaboration through collaboration sites and enterprise platforms
- Lead program/project issue/risk management, remediation plans, and escalations across channels, studios/service areas for projects/programs – responsible for providing management direction in these areas and ensuring clear communication, consideration of all factors, generation of solution alternatives, and defined actionable plans
- Establish deployment schedules and negotiate deployment timelines and schedules that optimize the value for the assigned initiative for company technology and Member Firms
- Lead deployment activities for implemented solutions into the Member Firms maximizing business value
- Create deployment artifacts and lead go-live readiness assessments and checklists
- Conduct ongoing examination of projects/programs for compliance with established processes, project plans, deployment schedules, budgets, influencing decisions on resource utilization and allocation at key lifecycle decision points
- Prepare and deliver regular, audience-specific communications/reports/dashboards to ensure that sponsors, key stakeholders, CIO advisors and leadership are adequately apprised of program and project statuses, successes, risks, and issues.
- Create, manage, and maintain project/program and deployment related artifacts
- Manage and track project/program budget/variance and takes corrective actions.
- Seek opportunities to demonstrate financial acumen through project/program budget optimization
- Maintain oversight and accountability for project/program performance including the creation/review of key delivery metrics
- Support value tracking initiatives for implemented initiatives
- Maintain and drive credibility and accountability for all program, projects, and deployment deliverables on assigned initiatives
- Keep informed of industry trends/leading practices around program/project management, and deployment practices. Propose changes to project and deployment methodologies and frameworks throughout the organization and contribute to the journey for continuous process improvement.
- Document, share, and leverage lessons learned
- Support the configuration, utilization and continuous improvement of project/program management and deployment tools.
- Seek and capitalize on opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost effectiveness.
- Demonstrated experience managing large, complex, cross-functional technology initiatives utilizing structured methodology and formal tools/approaches
- Demonstrated experience leading and driving SAFe/Agile projects and strong Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) knowledge
- Experience managing projects/programs in ServiceNow
- Strategic and critical thinker with the ability to make connections across workstreams and companies matrixed organization
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives concurrently, and be flexible and highly adaptive in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent planning and organization skills.
- Demonstrated analytical abilities, negotiation/presentation skills, and organizational/planning abilities.
- Proven expertise in planning, estimation, resource management, program/project tracking, scope control, risk, and issues management as well as stakeholder relationship management.
- High degree of project / program financial acumen and management (e.g., Planning, Forecasting, Budgeting, Business Case Development, etc.)
- Proven success at recruiting, mentoring, and leading teams that are focused on exceptional client service and can manage risk remotely/virtually
- Excellent interpersonal relations and demonstrated ability to work with others effectively in teams.
- Significant experience working with a blend of onshore/offshore teams and eco-partners/contractors
- Minimal travel required; this role is predominantly remote
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