Senior Project Manager
- Remote, Canada
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- Posting language
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About the Role
We are looking for a Bilingual Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale IT projects, coordinating teams, managing resources, and ensuring successful delivery. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder communication, and expertise in project management best practices.
Key Responsibilities
General Responsibilities
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading the end‑to‑end delivery of assigned projects. This includes planning, coordinating, and supervising activities; managing resources; monitoring progress; mitigating risks; communicating with stakeholders; and ensuring that project objectives are successfully achieved.
Specific Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the project team.
- Plan, organize, and facilitate project management meetings.
- Develop and maintain key project documentation, including:
- Detailed project plan
- Project organization manual
- Communication plan
- Risk management plan
- Project closure report
- Establish and manage project registers (risk, issues, decisions, change requests).
- Track project progress, ensuring phases and deliverables are completed on schedule, and implement corrective actions when required.
- Provide regular project status updates and communicate progress, issues, and risks to stakeholders.
- Produce performance indicators and dashboards for reporting purposes.
- Apply project management best practices and organizational methodologies.
- Contribute to the identification and validation of project benefits.
- Prepare documentation for complex, large‑scale mandates.
- Provide expert advisory support in project management.
Required Qualifications
Academic Background
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business administration, management, or a related field.
Minimum Professional Experience
- Minimum 12 years of experience in information technology.
- Minimum 5 years of experience, within the last 10 years , as a Senior Project Manager in IT.
- Participation in at least 3 mandates of 5,000 person‑days completed within the last 8 years , involving technological challenges across multiple administrative units within one or more organizations,
Professional Experience – Assets
- Senior‑level experience in strategic mandates
- Knowledge of the healthcare sector.
- Experience managing Agile projects (Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban, DAD, SAFe) or hybrid Agile/Waterfall approaches.
Certifications (Assets)
- PMI‑PMP and/or PMI‑ACP certification.
- Agile‑related certifications.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior Project Manager at Querentia Inc. will lead IT projects from start to finish, coordinating the team, tracking progress and keeping stakeholders informed. The role also prepares key project documents, manages risks and issues, and produces status reports and dashboards.
Requirements
Candidates need a bachelor's degree in IT, business or a related field, at least 12 years of IT experience and 5 years as a senior IT project manager. They also need experience leading several large multi-unit mandates; healthcare, Agile and PMP or PMI-ACP certification are assets.
Skills
- Project management
- Risk management
- Stakeholder communication
- Project planning
- Team leadership
- Scrum
- Kanban
- SAFe
- DAD
- Scrumban
- Waterfall
- Agile project management
- Project documentation
- Performance dashboards
- Change management
- Resource management
- Issue tracking
- Strategic planning
- Bilingual communication
- Healthcare sector knowledge
Categories
- Consulting
- Software
- Technology
- Healthcare
Keywords
- Senior Project Manager
- IT project manager
- project management
- bilingual
- contract
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- SAFe
- hybrid Agile Waterfall
- PMP
- PMI-ACP
- risk management
- stakeholder communication
- project planning
- project reporting
- healthcare IT
- large-scale IT projects
- IT project management
- program management
Seniority
Senior
Licences and certifications
- PMP
- PMI-ACP
Languages
- English
- French
Fields of study
- Information technology
- Business administration
- Management