Project Manager
$81,000–$130,000 year
HybridToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Plan, manage, and oversee the implementation of multiple projects in parallel, ensuring delivery on time, on budget, and within scope. Develop detailed plans, work breakdown structures, and budgets while monitoring financials and identifying risks to implement effective strategies. Lead project teams and stakeholders to manage expectations, negotiate support, and transition issues to ensure business risks are identified. Conduct post-project reviews to certify success criteria and provide regular status updates to management. This role requires PMP or Agile/SCRUM certification, 3-5 years of project management experience, and proficiency with tools like Microsoft Project and Azure DevOps. The position involves managing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies within Foresters Financial, an international financial services provider offering life insurance and investment solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a Project Management role with proven track record of successfully delivering various business and IT project sizes and types
- Must be well versed in project management methodology and have proven ability to lead projects to appropriately guide project requirements, identify technology issues and risks and direct investigation and analysis of technical alternatives
- Ability to assess priority and severity of issues by understanding business objectives, technical costs and user needs as well as being able to weigh alternatives for resolution
- Able to work in a team environment
- Proven ability to influence, lead and obtain agreement from cross-functional team
- Understand and manage to the critical path of the project
- Provide day-to-day leadership and focus on the proper execution of actions necessary for delivery of projects on time and on budget
- Excellent ability to multitask, to respond to constantly changing needs and schedules and to organize and prioritize workload
- Proven ability to manage finance issues, budgeting and cost-benefit analysis
- Excellent planning and organization skills
- Ability to provide solutions while managing tight deadlines and motivating in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a keen attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal skills to interact with all levels of staff from CEO, SVP's and VP's to managers and other staff
- Sound judgment and decision-making skills to act effectively in resolving issues as they arise
- Excellent communication skills including strong presentation / communication / facilitation skills (verbal and written)
- Excellent relationship management, interpersonal, conflict and negotiation skills
- Substantial experience and expertise with the use of Project Planning software, such as Microsoft Project, Visio, Azure DevOps/JIRA, and Office 365
- Strong systems implementation skills including requirements/process analysis, conceptual and detailed design, configuration, testing, training, change management, and support
Desired Qualifications
- PMP certified, Agile/SCRUM certified, or formal project management education is an asset
- University degree, an MBA would be an asset
- Strong IT Infrastructure and or Application Development project experience
- Experience implementing Life Insurance projects, products and IT systems and awareness of Life Insurance industry knowledge and systems features including New Business and In-Force administration would be an asset
- Strong understanding of IT environments / technologies
- Experience with both Waterfall and Agile development methodologies
- Experience in managing multiple projects at one time
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