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Job Description – Project Manager, Markham Office

The Project Manager is the primary point-person responsible for planning, executing, and delivering development projects on time, and in accordance with specifications. To achieve these important goals, the Project Manager will define project requirements and scope, acquire project resources, and supervise the efforts of project team members. Efficient delivery of project deliverables, effective quality control, and clear communication of expectations to stakeholders and upward reporting to senior management are critical tasks that must be performed throughout each project’s lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the entire lifecycle of project by using PMLC and SDLC methodologies.
• Establish a Project Plan for each approved project, defining the projects risks, assumptions, constrains, work breakdown structure, milestones, and deliverables.
• Manage project activities throughout its lifecycle, including the allocation of adequate resources, scheduling, documentation, and other factors necessary for success.
• Plan all project timelines, milestones, deliverables, and micro-deliverables using Microsoft Project.
• Organize project teams within their functional team in a balanced matrix environment and guide the teams throughout their efforts to produce deliverables according to specification.
• Reporting to stakeholders via a formal communications plan.
• Conduct stakeholder meetings and forums in order to solicit feedback and expectations
• Follow a formal change management program.
• Log all project activities (status, escalations, etc.)
• Closely monitor the efforts and trace timesheets.
• Identify and resolve conflicts within project teams and associate work.
• Create contingency plans to mitigate identified risk.
• Manage project dependencies.
• Conduct project post mortems in order to identify areas for improvement.

Required Skills:

• Project Management designation (Certified PMP), and University Degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience managing projects using a disciplined approach to project management
• Key core PM competencies: scope management, cost and risk management, timely decision making, effective team building, ability to prioritize, delegate appropriately and deal with changing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to establish and deliver resource based project plans
• Ability to multi-task and work on multiple projects at the same time
• Proven experience in SDLC and PM methodologies
• Excellent people management skills in a matrix environment
• Very strong customer delivery focus
• Very strong interpersonal skills
• Very strong organizational skills
• Very strong negotiation skills
• Very strong Microsoft Project skills