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About the Role

The Senior Project Manager plays a critical role in providing delivery excellence and leadership on projects within the Corporate Technology Portfolio. This highly visible and collaborative role works with business partners, vendors, and stakeholders to deliver initiatives on time and within budget, combining strong Project Management, Business Relationship, and Change Management skills.

Responsibilities

Accountable for ensuring the successful end to end delivery of projects within internal IT application and project delivery frameworks.
Sets up projects, resources, financials and schedule, proactively flagging variances that may jeopardize delivery.
Works effectively with limited supervision across external parties, cross-organization stakeholders and business partners to keep the project team on track, motivated and engaged.
Develops detailed project plans, stakeholder matrix, RAID logs, cut over plans and financial summaries.
Works with third party vendors to develop integrated project plans, ensuring vendors meet deliverables on schedule and budget.
Proactively works to resolve issues and remove roadblocks across project teams, proactively identifies potential issues before negatively impacting the project.
Leads and facilitates project meetings/scrums ensuring a high degree of communication and documentation are provided; meeting materials, distribute meeting minutes, update program scorecards.
Develops presentations and dashboards for a variety of audiences to show schedule, financials and resources consumption.
Conducts post implementation reviews.
Efficiently communicates to stakeholders to manage expectations and project progress.
Ensures project documentation is up to date for all Business and technology documents.
Manages IT risk by ensuring consistency with company methodologies, IT cyber and risk controls, standards and financial reporting.
Works with internal security, risk and compliance to ensure the necessary assessments are created, reviewed, and monitored and proactively addressed in a timely fashion.
Ensures projects are setup and tracked in the internal system monitoring resource usage against budget allocations.
Develops initial project budget and ensures proper mechanisms are in place to manage project change and associated costs proactively.
Identifies and documents scope changes for change request documentation and approval management.
Proactively participates and attends internal community of practice events and sessions.
Be adaptable to the change and be a Change Champion!
Maintains professional certifications.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in project management, leading software implementations.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing projects involving integrations, data migration, or complex technical landscapes.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing project teams, providing coaching and /or feedback to resources.
Superior ability to manage stakeholder relationships and provide excellent leadership skills.
Strong presentation skills and meeting facilitation; displays confidence and poise in formal speaking situations; create effective and compelling presentations; keeps meetings clearly focused on the agenda.
Ability to manage changing priorities/tight deadlines effectively in a fast-paced environment; ability to navigate ambiguity, overcome confusion, and simplify complex situations.
Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communications skills, with the ability to translate complex technical subject matter in business terms for executive audiences, succinctly and professionally.

Skills

Project Management
Business Relationship Management
Change Management
Presentation Skills
Meeting Facilitation
Communication Skills

Location

Remote

Work Type

Permanent
Full Time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

PMP certified
Experience with SAP cloud and on premise or business/transformation initiatives
Experience with different PM planning tools

Salary/Compensations

$80,400 - $130,400

Benefits

Career Development: Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement.
Health & Wellness: Flexible health and dental benefits, plus a $5,000 mental health benefit to support your well-being.
Time Off: In addition to regular vacation and personal days, we support community involvement with a volunteer day.
Financial Security: Company-matching pension plan, share ownership program and additional investment options.
Rewards and Recognition: Employee recognition programs, service milestone celebrations, employee discounts and more!
Emphasis on Community: Workplace where employees feel connected and supported through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mentorship programs, social clubs and events.

About the Company

We’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians.
Our company is trusted by 1 in 3 Canadians and contributes to the strength of communities across the country.
We’re looking for people who live our values everyday: we step up, we do the right thing, and we deliver – for our customers, communities and each other.

Equal Opportunity

We’re committed to removing barriers and ensuring equal access to employment. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation during the application process may contact talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com. All information provided will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and Canada Life policies.
Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.