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.
