Senior Project Manager

Department: Enterprise Transformation Office
Work Model: Hybrid
Language: English is required, French is an asset.

As the Senior Project Manager, you will manage and implement major initiatives by providing strategic leadership and direction on day-to-day activities. You will proactively develop solutions to enable our strategy and build strong partnerships with stakeholders to deliver program benefits, meet business objectives, and exceed client expectations.

How you will create impact:

• Actively managing project and program activities, including business case, scope development and managing risks and assumptions, and resolving conflicting priorities with stakeholders
• Chairing committees within the governance structure and managing the portfolio backlog and prioritization process.
• Collaborating with senior stakeholders to plan business priorities, develop resource and capacity plans, and secure resource commitments.
• Developing large project and program related budgets, managing expenditures, and reporting on program status.
• Coaching and motivating team members delivering on portfolio initiatives, ensuring alignment between business and team goals.
• Actively manage the plan, scope, risk, quality and resources, resolve conflicting priorities with program stakeholders and manage risks/assumptions
• Facilitate scope development with stakeholders.
• Ensure successful delivery of the key deliverables, taking corrective action as required
• Works with executive and senior management to plan business priorities within the year as well as for forward year(s) planning
• Chair committees within the governance structure, including the execution team as appropriate, manage the portfolio backlog and prioritization processes.
• Work with senior stakeholders to develop resource/ capacity plans and secure resource commitments for completion of deliverables.

How you will succeed:

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.
• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.
• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.
• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.

To join our team:

• You have minimum seven years of experience in Senior Project Management (multi-million dollar projects with multiple workstreams) or Program
• Management in Information Technology (IT) using agile and hybrid methodologies.
• At least 2-3 years of experience within the insurance and financial services preferred
• You have a post-secondary degree in Technology/Business or a related discipline.
• You have a track record for successful project and program execution
• Having the Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP), Prosci Change Management, or Change Management Institute (SMI) certification(s) is an asset.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusting relationships.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to foster an inclusive, productive team environment with several disparate teams being involved
• Knowledge of, and practical experience in, change management
• Ability to switch between initiatives and understand impacts is a key role in ensuring work progresses at pace in, what at times can be, an unstructured environment.

What we offer:

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career with one of Canada’s Best Employers.
• Opportunities to give back to your community.
• A competitive compensation package and benefits program.

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