Typical Day in Role:
• Project Delivery – Primarily responsible for planning and executing project WBS along with all coordination activities such as organizing requirement gathering discussions, kick-off, and daily/weekly project team meetings.
• Progress Reporting – Manage overall reporting to ensure stakeholder visibility and transparency on the progress, risk, and action items. Track and provide forecasts to actual budget reports as required to the program manager and/or project sponsors.
• Launch Coordination – Establish a solid launch plan and schedule for each project release including activity timetables, sign-off date/confirmation, emergency contact information, and backup scenarios.
• Stakeholder Management – Actively build relationships with internal and external partners, ensuring a proper level of stakeholder engagement to drive value into project delivery accountabilities while deepening client relationships and leveraging broader bank relationships, systems, processes, and knowledge.
• Continuous Improvement – Observes processes and proposes and executes improvements to continually improve PMO efficiency and effectiveness within client departments
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 8+ years of experience as an IT Project Manager with cross-functional teams
2) Communication and reporting management experience, preferably with a marketing focus (to be able to speak to the branding piece of the project)
3) 3+ years’ experience delivering technology and business application solutions on a large scale e.g. at the program level
4) Experience with at least one of these PM tools: Workfront; PMIS tools JIRA, confluence, MS suite – MS Project, Visio, PPT, Microsoft – please list which
Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) Experience with website-build projects a strong asset
2) Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) – intermediate or above level of expertise a strong asset
3) PMP/PMI/Agile/CSM/CAPM certification (either or – please list which)
4) PM experience from financial institutions
Soft Skills Required:
• Exceptional presentation and written communication skills
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment
• Results-focused, but understand that achieving results requires collaboration from business partners
• Self-motivated; works both independently and collaboratively with multi-functional teams, as both a leader and team member
• Superior critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Takes pride in being highly organized and staying ‘on top of it’
Education:
Bachelor's degree in business/commerce, or technical fields such as computer science, computer engineering, or related field
PMP/PMI/Agile/CSM/CAPM certification (either or)