Technical Project Manager
Job Duties/Accountabilities:
• Overall management of capital funded projects, strategic projects, governance and local initiatives
• Development of end-to-end project management frameworks for internal support teams
• Delivery of documentation to formally initiate a project & monitor project developments including project reviews, meetings, work sessions, action-registers
• Facilitates meetings to communicate progress, status, issues, assignments and escalations
• Facilitates work sessions, focus groups and organizes demos when required
• Preparation & facilitation of internal and executive presentations related to project scope timeline, activities, issues, budget and progress as required
• Leads and collaborates on elaboration of business cases to support project scope and/or monetary investment
• Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues
• Ensures that quality standards are adhered to and that projects are completed on time, on scope and on budget.
• Lead the evolution of project tracking tools (JIRA, Confluence, etc.).
• Manage ingestion process & project prioritization
Critical Qualifications/Competencies:
• Strong interpersonal and strong leadership skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams
• Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to different stakeholders (peers, team members, executives and clients)
• Strong influencing, negotiation and risk management skills
• Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to work independently
• Ability to design and improve project management processes, tracking tools and overall best practices
• Must be proficient in MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong understanding of Jira (administration level knowledge)
• Must have at least 5+ years of project management experience; preferably technical project management
Preferred Qualifications/Competences:
• Previous exposure and understanding of project delivery (data ingestion, tool integration, reporting evolution).
• Experience in owning technical program development from start to finish, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects within tight deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts
• Experience in designing and implementing/improving project management tools, documentation and processes (mapping, charting, RACI charts etc.)
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organizations
• Familiarity with PEATS Finance Tool, Confluence & Jira
• PMP Designation or equivalent
Bilingualism is an asset (English and French)