Senior Project Manager

Employment Type:

Regular Full-Time
Work Model:
Hybrid
Language:
This role operates in English.

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients and our communities.

Our Information Technology team aspires to be a leader in applying technology to power business strategies. We connect concepts with solutions to create value and efficiencies for our clients, employees, and communities. Our success is driven by our skilled and diverse team who are passionate about excellence, innovation, and agility.

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.

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

Builds and maintains strong relationships with cross company stakeholders to understand needs and anticipate other initiatives that may impact or provide synergies with the program/ project.

Chair committees within the governance structure, including the execution team as appropriate, manage the portfolio backlog and prioritization processes

Partner with the change management practitioners

Work with senior stakeholders to develop resource/ capacity plans and secure resource commitments for completion of deliverables.

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.

You have minimum seven years of experience in Senior Project Management (multi-million dollar projects with multiple work streams) 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

Ability to collaborate and extract unstated needs and requirements

Strong leadership skills and…