Original job description
We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead a strategic two-year initiative involving the replacement of an SAP ERP system with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.
The role requires a rigorous, organized, and detail-oriented individual capable of managing a large-scale project using an approach aligned with PMI/PMP best practices.
Advantages
WHAT AWAITS YOU:
In this challenging role, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering the replacement of an SAP ERP system with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, while adhering to established scope, budget, timelines, and quality standards.
You will work with multidisciplinary teams to deliver solutions aligned with business needs, applying a structured project management approach based on PMI/PMP best practices - tailored to the specific project context, whether predictive, agile, or hybrid.
WHY THIS ASSIGNMENT?
A two-year assignment at the heart of a strategic and high-profile ERP transformation.
An opportunity to contribute to a pivotal project modernizing business processes and systems.
Collaboration with business, IT, architecture, and cybersecurity teams, as well as external partners.
A professional environment offering autonomy, influence, and diverse challenges.
Responsibilities
What we are looking for:
Solid experience in IT project management;
Experience with a structured methodology (PMI/PMP);
Ability to create and track detailed project plans;
Experience in an ERP environment, ideally SAP and/or Dynamics 365;
Leadership, autonomy, and excellent coordination of multidisciplinary teams;
Ability to work using predictive, agile, or hybrid methodologies.
An excellent opportunity to contribute to a major digital transformation within a dynamic and collaborative manufacturing environment.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Plan, structure, and deliver a large-scale IT project using an approach aligned with PMI/PMP best practices, ensuring rigorous monitoring of scope, budget, schedule, risks, issues, and expected benefits.
Manage the full project lifecycle - from initiation to closure - by creating detailed project plans that are kept up-to-date and rigorously tracked throughout execution.
Adapt the delivery approach to the specific context (predictive, Agile, or hybrid) while maintaining governance, documentation, and execution controls that comply with PMI/PMP principles.
Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, external partners, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment, collaboration, and project progress.
Ensure clear and effective governance, including status updates, decisions, variance management, action plans, performance indicators, control mechanisms, and stakeholder reporting.
Contribute to change management, communication, training, and transition activities involving business and IT teams.
Facilitate analysis workshops as needed to clarify requirements, processes, impacts, and necessary decisions.
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, ideally within a medium- to large-scale ERP context.
• Demonstrated experience with a structured project management methodology (e.g., PMI/PMP), covering project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure.
• Experience with SAP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations strongly preferred.
• Ability to manage projects using predictive, agile, or hybrid approaches - depending on the context and team maturity - while maintaining disciplined planning, monitoring, and control practices.
• Rigorous, structured, and detail-oriented profile, with a strong ability to develop comprehensive project plans; track commitments, deliverables, decisions, and variances; and implement necessary adjustments.
• Influential leadership, organizational skills, and the ability to mobilize multidisciplinary teams within a matrix environment.
• Experience in manufacturing, digital transformation, or change management considered an asset.
• Bilingual (French and English), both spoken and written.
Summary
Are you an IT project management consultant looking to contribute to a major transformation within a dynamic manufacturing environment? We are seeking an experienced, rigorous, and detail-oriented IT project manager for a two-year mandate to lead a strategic initiative focused on evolving our business systems and processes.
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.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
