Project Manager

Visionpool Business Services is hiring a Project Manager.  This opportunity is located onsite in Regina, SK.

Responsibilities :

• Develop the terms of the detailed project plan in consultation with the Project Leadership Team.
• Produce the Project Plan and gain Project Sponsor approval.
• Ensure the project is undertaken in accordance with the standards, processes and documentation which follow Project Management Institute (PMI) standards.
• Produce deliverables on time, within budget and to specification ensuring project objectives are met.
• Ensure the work products and deliverables are completed in compliance with technical standards.
• Facilitate integration of project touch points (interconnections) across related projects if required.
• Monitor and report on project performance : scope, schedule, cost, and quality of project deliverables.
• Identify, monitor and manage risks related to the delivery of the project.
• Provide timely communications and reporting regarding projects risks, issues and concerns to the team, Project Sponsors and relevant stakeholders.
• Organize and facilitate multi-stakeholder workshops, meetings and prepare presentations.
• Work collaboratively with third party vendors and other partners to include their delivery as part of the overall implementation plan.
• Develop project change requests (scope, time and cost) while negotiating and sharing financial implications and / or impact with the Project Sponsor.
• Identify changes to resourcing requirements.

Qualifications :

Project Management Professional (PMP) or PRINCE2 certification.

Demonstrated experience as a practicing Project Manager managing different, complex Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) implementation projects in an IT environment.

Complex is defined as a project with multiple stakeholders, vendors and complex cloud integrations with public facing components.

The position will be 100% onsite located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, upon contract start date.

Local Knowledge

Demonstrated experience with Government Agencies, or comparable entities, as it relates to the technical and business landscape

Demonstrated Project Management experience including successfully managing team resources, risks, systems development, estimating effort and costs, and planning and scheduling project activities following Project Management Institute (PMI) standards, processes and documentation.

Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, evidenced by the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all organizational levels and prioritize business objectives.

Demonstrated experience in implementing practices and techniques to navigate project governance frameworks is essential, including conducting project team meetings and engaging with Executive Steering Committees.

Demonstrated experience managing at least two (2) large CRM projects with cloud integrations (large means budget of at least $500,000).

Demonstrated experience in creating and managing project management documentation. Examples would include project plans, schedule, project budget and change orders as well as project status reports.

Demonstrated experience working with tools such as Azure DevOps.

Demonstrated experience working with tools such as CMDB.

Certification as an organizational change management practitioner is considered an asset.