Senior Project Manager

Job Overview

Working under limited supervision, this job plays a critical role in delivering large, complex, and strategic initiatives that support Wawanesa’s strategic priorities. This role ensures that projects are executed with discipline, transparency, and alignment to strategic priorities. The Senior Project Manager is accountable for managing cross-functional teams, third-party vendors, and internal stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes and value.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, strategic projects, ensuring alignment with our Life organization and enterprise priorities and the EPMO’s strategic execution framework.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource allocations using approved methodologies and tools.
• Manage project decisions, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Collaborate with the Director, Life Transformation and stakeholders to ensure project alignment with capability roadmaps, resource planning, and value architecture.
• Support benefits realization by contributing to the definition of success metrics, tracking KPIs, and contributing to value creation reporting.
• Prepare and present project updates, dashboards, and governance materials.
• Manage vendor relationships and contracts to ensure quality and accountability in third-party delivery.
• Champion change management practices in collaboration with the Enterprise Portfolio Change stakeholders to support adoption and sustainment.
• Drive consistent application of the PM COE methodology and tools resulting in effective and consistent delivery of projects.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery standards and tools.
• Mentor junior Project Managers and contribute to the maturity of project delivery within the Life organization.
• Maintain accurate and transparent project documentation and reporting to stakeholders and governance forums. E
• nsure consistent application of project management methodologies (e.g., PMI, Agile, SAFe) and tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Planner).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

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Diversity Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At Wawanesa, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people – this is supported by having a representative workforce.

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