25th June, 2025
Our client is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join their team!
This is a remote/full-time/12-month contract position (with the possibility of extension)
Hourly based on experience: Up to $60/HR
Required Qualifications:
PROJECT PLANNING
- Review, edit, and formulate: Project Documentation (Charter, Business Case, etc.) to ensure accuracy at the start of the program or project.
- Formulate an adapted project plan to reach the project objectives and benefits within the defined frame
- Understand interdependencies between project streams and other competing efforts.
- Refine the business case if required
- Refine the project's scope, schedule, activities, milestones, and main expected deliverables
- Refine the project's budget if required
- Identify detailed project(s), team, resources, and allocation
- Engage stakeholders and define roles and responsibilities
- Define a communication strategy for project stakeholders and establish necessary project governance
- Define and indicate applicable quality procedures (issue management, risk management, escalation management, deliverables acceptance…)
- Work within established project management methodologies and frameworks.
PROJECT EXECUTION MANAGEMENT - Organize and hold project execution kick-off meeting(s),
- Ensure commitment to the project from team members, customers, or stakeholders
- Execute the project plan from planning to closing
- Organize, coordinate, and lead the project team and activities
- Manage resources, develop schedules, and assign individual responsibilities to perform project activities
- Manage project-related costs and budget
- Collaborate with domain leads to supervise suppliers in charge of project activities, manage relationships with the suppliers (from the signature of the contract to the final validation of the project or activity deliverable)
- Supervise and monitor project workstream progress against the approved plan
- Coordinate, summarize, and ensure the quality of issued approvals and deliverables
- Advise on possible modifications of objectives, completion constraints, or environment changes
- Analyze and manage project risks and issues, and implement a risk management plan
PROJECT CLOSING - Close the project and submit final deliverables with a formal handover to the support and business teams
COORDINATION AND REPORTING - Coordinate the activities of all project workstream team members
- Ensure the circulation and distribution of information regarding project management
- Mediate in the event of any differences between the team and other stakeholders
- Use project management tools and techniques to track performance and schedule adherence
- Keep the stakeholders notified of project milestones and evolution through regular project status reports
- Work with and report to the program manager to manage project interdependencies
- Provide regular updates on the project status, risks, progress, and KPIs to the Portfolio Management Officer
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT - Help to create and promote the organizational culture of project management
- Act as an advocate for best practices in project management
Hard Skills - Project Management
- Identifying and addressing problems and risks.
- Working with multiple stakeholder groups
- Stakeholder communications, negotiations, and problem-solving.
- IT Project Management
- Piloting Unit of work for Build
- Project Planning
- Project Scheduling
- Scope management
- Stakeholder/relationship management
- Project Administration / Controlling / Reporting
- Processes, methodologies, and tools
- Risk Management
- Financial Acumen
- Spend Management (Invoicing controlling) and Spend Forecasting
Soft Skills - Manages ambiguity (Contributing through others)
- Collaborates (Contributing through others)
- Ensures accountability (Contributing through others)
- Communicates effectively (Contributing through others)
- Excellent teambuilders (Contributing independently)
- Courage (Contributing independently)
- Drives results (Contributing independently)
Years of Experience Required: Minimum 5-year(s) experience in project management
Minimum 5-year(s) experience in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall methodologies
Preferred: - Experience in projects involving IT Infrastructure, Deployment, Rollout, Process Design, Business Process Redesign, etc.
- Experience working with projects that span multiple disciplines.
- Strong financial acumen and organizational skills.
- Minimum 7-10 year(s) of experience in Information Technology
- International experience a plus.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual based on race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws.
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