IT Project Manager

Potential for conversion to a permanent position
We are seeking a contract IT Project Manager to lead multiple projects across various business areas of the company.
In this role, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering high-value IT projects, ensuring rigorous management of scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, and stakeholders. Key responsibilities include creating and maintaining detailed, clear, and actionable project plans to track deliverables, dependencies, milestones, decisions, and action plans.
You will collaborate with business, IT, architecture, and cybersecurity teams, as well as external partners, to translate requirements into concrete results. You will adapt your approach - whether predictive, agile, or hybrid - based on the project context, while leveraging PMI/PMP project management best practices.

Advantages
WHY THIS ASSIGNMENT?

 A strategic and varied mandate, offering exposure to multiple business areas and transformation initiatives.
 An opportunity to play a key role in delivering tangible, high-visibility IT solutions that provide real value to the organization.
 A collaborative environment where you will work with business, IT, architecture, and cybersecurity teams, as well as external partners.
 A potential opportunity to transition to a permanent role for someone looking to make a long-term commitment.

Responsibilities
What you will do
 Manage multiple IT projects in parallel, from initiation to closure.
 Develop, maintain, and communicate detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and action plans.
 Establish clear governance: status updates, metrics, decisions, action plans, and escalation paths.
 Engage stakeholders and ensure proactive communication.
 Track deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and business value.
 Use Jira and Confluence to plan, document, and track work progress.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
 Plan, structure, and deliver multiple IT projects by developing detailed project plans covering scope, budget, timelines, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, action plans, and expected benefits.
 Manage the full project lifecycle - from initiation to closure - ensuring deliverable quality, effective decision-making, and the achievement of business objectives.
 Tailor the delivery approach to the specific project context - whether predictive, Agile, or hybrid - in accordance with recognized project management best practices.
 Engage stakeholders, facilitate team collaboration, and maintain clear, proactive, and results-oriented communication.
 Establish effective governance, including status reporting, performance indicators, decision-making, action plans, change management, escalation processes, and accountability.
 Use Jira and Confluence to plan work, track progress, document decisions, structure deliverables, and foster transparency.
 Contribute to change management, communication, and training activities, as well as the transition to operations or the teams responsible for the solution.

Qualifications
WHAT YOU NEED:

 Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
 Minimum of 5 years of experience in IT project management, with a proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and maintain detailed, reliable, and regularly updated project plans.
 Strong command of PMI/PMP-based project management practices, including the management of stakeholders, scope, risk, cost, quality, communications, and business value.
 Experience with predictive, Agile, or hybrid approaches, and the ability to select the method best suited to the context.
 Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence for work tracking, documentation, collaboration, and project governance.
 Influential leadership, excellent organizational skills, ability to synthesize information, and capacity to mobilize multidisciplinary teams within a matrix environment.
 Rigor, autonomy, a results-oriented mindset, and the ability to stay on track in a dynamic environment where priorities may shift.
 PMP certification or equivalent project management training considered a significant asset.
 Bilingualism (French and English), both spoken and written.

Summary
WHAT AWAITS YOU:
In this challenging role, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering a portfolio of IT projects spanning multiple business sectors. You will ensure rigorous management of scope, budget, timelines, risks, issues, and delivered value by creating and maintaining detailed, structured, and actionable project plans. You will work closely with business, IT, architecture, cybersecurity, and delivery teams, as well as external partners, to transform requirements into measurable results, adapting your management approach - predictive, agile, or hybrid - to the specific context.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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