IT Project Manager

Brandt Corporate Services Ltd. has an open position for IT Project Manager in its Regina, SK, location.  This position is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering large multi-phase IT projects and programs on time, within budget, and in accordance to specifications by defining the project requirements and scope, acquiring project resources, and supervising the efforts of the project team members.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct cost-benefit analyses, risk analyses, and ROI calculations to determine project feasibility
• Manage the entire life cycle of Brandt’s project portfolio, ranging from strategic planning initiatives to tactical activities
• Design and supervise the implementation of all new system installations, expansions, modifications, migrations, etc.
• Establish a project charter for each approved project, defining the project’s goals, objectives, risks, assumptions, staffing levels, roles and responsibilities, milestones, and deliverables
• Plan all project timelines, milestones, requirements, micro-deliverables and work breakdown structure using the appropriate software tools and / or PM methods
• Adhere to established methodologies for project management
• Track all project costs to ensure completion within budget; procure extra budget funding where necessary using the appropriate change request and change order process
• Closely monitor the efforts and billing of third-party vendors, such as consultants, contractors, and other specialists
• Conduct project post-mortems in order to identify areas for improvement; make recommendations based on findings
• Organize project teams into suitable workgroups and guide the teams throughout their efforts to produce deliverables according to specification
• Negotiate with other business units to obtain require skill sets
• Identify and resolve conflicts within project teams and associate work; create contingency plans to mitigate risk
• Establish, implement, and follow a formal change management program
• Conduct stakeholder meetings and forums in order to solicit feedback, input, and expectations
• In coordination of HR, determine optimal training methods / resources, as well as dealing with user non-compliance
• Establish and deliver mechanisms for tracking project progress and reporting
• Product regular reports on the progress of projects; deliver reports during stakeholder meetings
• Ensure project meets all internal and external security and privacy requirements, and that such requirements are established prior to project implementation
• In coordination with all IT managers, ensure that the infrastructure resources have adequate capacity for demands that will be placed on it
• Evaluate performance of computer systems / networks pertaining to application requirements / usage
• Participate in all hardware and software evaluations if applicable
• Stay up to date on all changes in the IT industry and make suggestions to senior management accordingly
• Other duties as assigned

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