Project Manager
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Job type
- Contract
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Position: Project manager
Location: Toronto Canada Onsite
Duration: Long Term Contract
Mandatory skills*
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Proven capability in project planning, estimation, scheduling, budgeting, governance, and risk management.
- Good analytical, requirements-gathering, and business-process-mapping skills.
- Ability to recommend practical solutions and develop delivery roadmaps aligned with client requirements.
- Ability to lead and coordinate multiple teams in a distributed delivery environment.
- Strong client-facing communication, presentation, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Proficiency with project management and delivery tools such as Microsoft Project and Jira.
Job Description*
- Manage end-to-end project delivery from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closure.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, work plans, and delivery documentation.
- Track project scope, schedule, quality, resource requirements, costs, risks, and dependencies; take corrective action when variances are identified.
- Prepare and present regular project status reports to stakeholders and leadership.
- Lead project governance meetings, document decisions and actions, and ensure timely follow-through.
- Identify risks and issues, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate when required.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams and stakeholders to support timely completion of deliverables.
- Conduct requirements gathering, analysis, and business process mapping as required.
- Maintain project documentation, including plans, status reports, risk and issue logs, action trackers, and closure summaries.
- Ensure project outputs meet agreed quality standards and stakeholder expectations.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Manage end-to-end project delivery from initiation through closure, including the development of project plans and schedules. Coordinate cross-functional teams and provide regular status reports to stakeholders and leadership.
Requirements
Requires strong leadership and project management expertise in budgeting, risk management, and governance. Proficiency with tools like Microsoft Project and Jira is essential for managing distributed delivery environments.
Skills
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Project Planning
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Budgeting
- Governance
- Risk Management
- Analytical Skills
- Requirements Gathering
- Business Process Mapping
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
- Technology
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Planning
- Budgeting
- Risk Management
- Governance
- Business Process Mapping
- Microsoft Project
- Jira
- End-to-end Delivery
- Requirements Gathering
- Distributed Delivery
- Information Services
- Consulting