Senior Project Manager – Blue Yonder
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
CGI's team is seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager with extensive experience leading Blue Yonder Warehouse Management System implementations. The ideal candidate will have successfully led multiple Blue Yonder SaaS WMS implementations and be comfortable managing complex programs involving business stakeholders, technical teams, implementation partners, and client leadership.
This role will lead large scale WMS transformation initiatives from planning through go live and stabilization. The successful candidate will bring strong project governance, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational change management skills, with the potential to become a long term leader for CGI's Blue Yonder WMS initiatives.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Lead end to end Blue Yonder SaaS WMS implementations, including planning, design, configuration, testing, training, deployment, and stabilization
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall delivery governance
- Coordinate cross functional teams across business operations, IT, vendors, implementation partners, and client leadership
- Establish strong working relationships with business and technical stakeholders at all levels
- Manage implementation partners and hold them accountable for deliverables, timelines, quality, and issue resolution
- Facilitate project meetings, steering committees, status reporting, design reviews, and key decision forums
- Lead organizational change management activities, including communications, stakeholder readiness, training, and adoption planning
- Identify and resolve delivery risks, project dependencies, and escalated issues in a timely manner
- Ensure alignment between the Blue Yonder WMS solution, business objectives, operational processes, and enterprise technology standards
- Contribute to the ongoing development of CGI's Blue Yonder WMS delivery approach, methodologies, and client offerings
- Demonstrated experience successfully leading at least four Blue Yonder SaaS WMS implementations from initiation through go live and stabilization
- Proven experience managing large scale WMS or supply chain transformation programs
- Strong understanding of warehouse operations, supply chain processes, and WMS implementation lifecycles
- Experience managing system integrators, implementation partners, vendors, and distributed delivery teams
- Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, and presentation skills
- Experience leading organizational change management, business readiness, training, and adoption activities
- Strong project governance, planning, risk management, issue resolution, and executive reporting capabilities
- Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders
- Experience working in a consulting or client facing environment
- A passion for building long term client relationships and leading future Blue Yonder WMS initiatives
Please note: This is an evergreen posting designed to build our talent network for anticipated future engagements. Qualified candidates may be contacted as opportunities become available.
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Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end Blue Yonder SaaS WMS implementations, managing scope, schedule, budget, risks, governance, and delivery from planning through stabilization. Coordinate business, technical, vendor, and client teams; lead stakeholder engagement and change management; and contribute to CGI’s WMS delivery methods and offerings.
Requirements
Candidates must have led at least four Blue Yonder SaaS WMS implementations through go-live and stabilization, with experience managing large-scale WMS or supply chain transformation programs. They should understand warehouse operations and WMS lifecycles and demonstrate strong governance, partner management, stakeholder communication, and organizational change management capabilities.
Skills
- Project Management
- Warehouse Operations
- Supply Chain Transformation
- Project Governance
- Stakeholder Management
- Organizational Change Management
- Risk Management
- Issue Resolution
- Executive Reporting
- Vendor Management
- Business Readiness
- Training and Adoption
- Facilitation
- Communication
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Logistics
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- Blue Yonder
- SaaS
- Warehouse Management System
- WMS
- Warehouse Operations
- Supply Chain
- Project Management
- Program Management
- Implementation Lifecycle
- Project Governance
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Budget Management
- Risk Management
- Issue Resolution
- Stakeholder Management
- Vendor Management
- System Integrators
- Implementation Partners
- Organizational Change Management
- Business Readiness
- Training
- Adoption Planning
- Testing
- Deployment
- Stabilization
- Executive Reporting
- Consulting