
Senior Project Manager
Canada Life
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • Canada
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Salary
💰 $85,000 - $115,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Accountable for ensuring the successful end to end delivery of projects within our internal IT application and project delivery frameworks.
- Sets up projects, resources, financials and schedule, proactively flagging variances that may jeopardize delivery.
- Works effectively with limited supervision across external parties, cross-organization stakeholders and business partners to keep the project team on track, motivated and engaged.
- Develops detailed project plans, stakeholder matrix, RAID logs, cut over plans and financial summaries.
- Work with third party vendors to develop integrated project plans, ensuring vendors meet deliverables on schedule and budget.
- Proactively works to resolve issues and remove roadblocks across project teams, proactively identifies potential issues before negatively impacting the project.
- Confidently leads and facilitates project meetings/scrums ensuring a high degree of communication and documentation are provided; meeting materials, distribute meeting minutes, update program scorecards.
- Develops presentations and dashboards for a variety of audiences (Executives, Operations, Core Teams, etc.) to show schedule, financials and resources consumption (e.g. Burn Rates, slippage, etc.)
- Conducts post implementation reviews.
- Efficiently communicates to stakeholders to manage expectations and project progress.
- Ensures project documentation is up to date for all Business and technology documents (kick off, Charters, change management, implementation/cut over plans, decommissioning activities etc.).
- Manages IT risk by ensuring consistency with company methodologies, IT cyber and risk controls, standards and financial reporting
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management, leading software implementations.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing projects involving integrations, data migration, or complex technical landscapes.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing project teams, providing coaching and /or feedback to resources.
- PMP certified
- Experience with SAP cloud and on premise or business/transformation initiatives
- Experience with different PM planning tools
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
project managementsoftware implementationdata migrationintegration managementfinancial reportingrisk managementstakeholder managementproject planningdocumentation managementpost implementation review
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcoachingteam motivationengagementorganizational skillsfacilitationexpectation managementproactive identification of issues
Certifications
PMP