Senior Project Manager

Written By Bryton Udy

Job Summary

The Project Manager (PM) will manage IT projects from planning through to implementation.

The PM will be responsible for the day-to-day activities of the project team including vendor management and will work directly with the Program Manager to deliver solutions and enterprise interests.

The Project Manager will be responsible for working with the IT business clients to establish a clear vision for these projects, planning, budgeting, and scheduling, coordinating selection and engagement of a third-party implementer, managing stakeholder and vendor relationships, and identifying and leveraging synergies and learnings between the two implementation projects.

 

Work Type

Contract Position

Location

Calgary – Open to remote

Responsibilities

  • Manage and deliver a large-scale ERP & Project Management Project across multiple geographies and stakeholder groups

  • Assign and oversee the daily tasks of the IT delivery team ensuring that milestones are being achieved

  • Interact with the development team to ensure that requirements are correctly understood and implemented

  • Align resources to deliver project deliverables for software, integration, and business process implementation

  • Collaboratively develop, monitor, and control overall project plan including project schedule

  • Collaboratively develop, monitor, and control project budget and forecasts

  • Responsible for creating project deliverables to support the stage-gate project management and financial processes in collaboration with the Business Program and Enterprise IT Leads

  • Responsible for tracking risks, actions, issues, decisions, and changes

  • Identify and make recommendations for areas for process and systems improvement

  • Hold regular project and technical meetings to determine progress and address project challenges and issues

  • Responsible for project status reporting on a weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly basis

Education, Experience & Skills

  • Relevant certificate, diploma, degree or designation program in Project Management

  • Experience with both Agile and Waterfall project delivery methodologies

  • Experience in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Integrations. Experience with SAP and Oracle will be an asset

  • Demonstrated success with large-scale, enterprise IT implementations as part of a business transformation

  • Experience within a merger and acquisition environment will be considered an asset

  • Knowledge and experience with large scale multifunctional IT implementation initiatives

  • Demonstrated experience in working in a high-level collaborative environment and facilitating a team-oriented approach

  • Knowledge of IT Enterprise Transformational Projects will be considered an asset

  • Working Knowledge of OCM Methodologies will be considered an asset

  • Strong Written and Verbal Communication

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