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Senior Project Manager
- Regina, SK, Canada
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Focus Systems is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager professional to support a large-scale transformational project and other assigned projects.
If you have strong experience managing complex IT programs and projects, coordinating multiple workstreams, leading external vendors and cross-functional teams, and providing disciplined governance and executive reporting, this is an opportunity to help deliver high-impact transformation work in Regina.
Key Details
- Location: Regina, SK
- Work Arrangement: Primarily on-site for the duration of the engagement, with consideration of occasional off-site work
- Contract: Initial 18-month term
- Renewal Options: Two additional one-year renewals
- Initiative: Large-scale transformation
Role Overview
The Senior Project Manager will support the successful delivery of a large-scale transformational project and other assigned initiatives. The successful candidate will manage the integrated project plan, coordinate activities across multiple workstreams, identify and manage interdependencies, and drive actions, decisions, risks, issues, and dependencies to timely resolution.
Working closely with business and technology leaders, vendors, project teams, the Enterprise Project Management Office, and executive sponsors, the successful candidate will provide overall project performance leadership across scope, cost, schedule, quality, governance, documentation, and delivery outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage integrated project plans and coordinate activities and interdependencies across multiple workstreams.
- Own project performance across scope, cost, schedule, deliverables, change control, risks, and issues.
- Manage external vendors, including delivery planning, schedule management, status reporting, governance approvals, and issue resolution.
- Collaborate with business, IT, organizational change management, and other core project team members to align goals and delivery.
- Orchestrate program and project activities, resolve delivery challenges with workstream leads, and reinforce agreed processes and expectations.
- Identify, assess, manage, and mitigate risks affecting scope, schedule, budget, quality, and expected business outcomes.
- Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability for work, deliverables, milestones, and commitments.
- Ensure deliverables satisfy approved business requirements and meet quality, compliance, and organizational expectations.
- Create and manage the overall project budget.
- Provide timely, accurate reporting to sponsors, executives, steering committees, governance bodies, and other stakeholders.
- Escalate challenges and recommend actions that support informed decisions and prompt resolution.
- Maintain complete and accurate project documentation, including charters, plans, schedules, budgets, governance materials, decision logs, risk and issue registers, status reports, change requests, lessons learned, and closure records.
Mandatory Qualifications
- Minimum of seven years of proven IT program or project management experience as a project manager managing multiple concurrent projects.
- Project management education and/or certification such as PMP.
- Minimum seven years of proven vendor management experience.
- Minimum seven years of proven experience managing cross-functional project teams.
- Experience managing predictive, agile, and hybrid projects.
- Availability and ability to work primarily on-site at the Regina location for the duration of the engagement.
Required Skills and Experience
- Proficiency with project management software.
- Excellent written communication and a disciplined approach to project records.
- Demonstrated interpersonal, management, and communication skills at all organizational levels.
- Strong organization, attention to detail, and multitasking skills.
- Proven project and resource planning capabilities.
- Ability to analyze complex problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Experience managing the implementation of SaaS cloud solutions is an asset.
Application Deadline
Please complete your initial application by September 27, 2026, at 11:30 PM CST. Only candidates selected to proceed to the next stage will be contacted and invited to complete their application package.
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Responsibilities
Lead delivery of a large-scale transformation project and other initiatives by managing integrated plans, budgets, schedules, scope, risks, issues, vendors, and cross-functional workstreams. Maintain project governance and documentation, report performance to executives and stakeholders, and drive decisions and delivery challenges to resolution.
Requirements
Requires at least seven years of IT project or program management experience, vendor management experience, and experience leading cross-functional teams, along with project management education or certification such as PMP. Candidates must be able to work primarily on-site in Regina and have experience with predictive, agile, and hybrid projects; SaaS cloud implementation experience is an asset.
Skills
- IT Project Management
- Program Management
- Vendor Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Budget Management
- Schedule Management
- Governance
- Executive Reporting
- Change Control
- Resource Planning
- Agile Project Management
- Predictive Project Management
- Hybrid Project Management
- SaaS Cloud Implementation
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- IT Program Management
- IT Project Management
- PMP
- Vendor Management
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Transformation Project
- Integrated Project Plan
- Project Governance
- Executive Reporting
- Project Budget
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Quality Management
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Change Control
- Resource Planning
- Predictive Project Management
- Agile
- Hybrid Project Management
- SaaS
- Cloud Solutions
- Project Management Software
- Enterprise Project Management Office
- Steering Committees
- Organizational Change Management
- Decision Logs
- Risk Registers
- Issue Registers