Are you a Project Manager who is proactive and can drive projects forward? Do you want to work for a company that has great people and has been growing every year?
Our client is seeking a Project Manager for a Toronto-based permanent role in their fast-paced & expanding company. We love this company because of their great culture and exciting projects.
Here is what you will do on a day to day basis:
- Lead discovery meetings with key stakeholders to understand current business processes and determine business requirements/processes
- Create design documentation and present the designs to other project members
- Schedule tasks, plan deadlines, and track milestones for stakeholders and resources
- Prioritize and assign tasks appropriately and monitor/manage timelines
- Closely monitor milestones and take action whenever required
- Coordinate clients, service providers, and internal team members
- Keep projects on track by evaluating deliverables, managing roadblocks such as scope-creep and missed deadlines
- Monitor and report on the progress of projects to all stakeholders
- Train staff/clients and conduct knowledge transfer on the use of delivered work
- Clearly define and document new processes to improve work efficiency for both internal and business teams
- Provide hands-on support whenever required during the project cycles
- Provide support on systems and application production deployment/major activities
- Support and help trouble-shoot delivered work during project and post-project
- Ensure project expectations are met and exceeded in terms of product quality and service delivered
- Continuously assess risk and resolve conflicts between budget, schedule, and design goals
- Manage release plans/schedules, resource capacity, forecasting, and status reporting on a weekly basis
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Here is the type of person we are looking for:
- 5+ years of IT project management experience
- Project Management related certification (CAPM, PMP, etc.)
- Experience with new product development and Agile software development methodologies would be desirable
- Proven development background
- Willingness to learn and adapt to new processes quickly
- Experience with web development, knowledge of backend Oracle development is preferred
- Previous experience with infrastructure and architecture projects is preferred
- Previous experience with business continuity/disaster recovery initiatives would be desirable
- Previous experience with facilitating and organizing daily stand ups, sprint and release planning, scoping, and retrospectives aligned with Agile Scrum best practices
- Familiarity with GIS Applications, Oracle DB, SQL, PL/SQL is an asset.
- Familiarity with JSON, API, XML, and Azure DevOps is an asset.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate opinions and ideas
- Ability to work with and manage a multidisciplinary team
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Detail and process-oriented
- Time, scope, quality, and cost project management skills
- Ability to coach/monitor and lead teams to success
- Strong organizational skills, ability to multi‐task and work under pressure in a SUPER fast-paced environment
- Strong management and project management planning skills
- Excellent reporting skills and chairing meetings
If you are interested in exploring this position, please apply now!
Our client is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at their company
People are our passion. People are our profession.
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