Project Manager / Leader - I&IT

Job summary

Manage large, complex, high-profile I&IT projects from planning through implementation, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements, timelines, scope, budget, and applicable project management standards. Oversee budgets, schedules, risks, issues, stakeholders, and governance, and provide executive-level reporting and mitigation recommendations.

Job details

Position: Project Manager / Leader - I&IT Location: Toronto, Ontario — Fully Onsite Contract: 5-month Contract Pay rate: CAD $65/hour T4 or $70/hour incorporated, as applicable Responsibilities: Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS I&IT initiatives. Ensures project deliverables meet clients’ business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies and frameworks. Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals. Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed. Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers. Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums. Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan. Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met. Requirements: Proven experience managing end-to-end I&IT projects, including project schedules, scope, deliverables, budgets, risks and implementation. Hands-on experience managing Oracle Service Cloud or similar platforms, including technology transitions and implementations. Strong knowledge of I&IT project management methodologies and best practices, including Agile and Kanban. Demonstrated ability to lead project teams and external vendors, ensuring timely delivery within agreed scope, budget and quality standards. Experience coordinating cross-functional stakeholders across business, IT, finance, procurement, privacy and security. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, governance and executive-level reporting skills. Email CVs to: mahin@hirerightt.com

What you’ll do

Manage large, complex, high-profile I&IT projects from planning through implementation, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements, timelines, scope, budget, and applicable project management standards. Oversee budgets, schedules, risks, issues, stakeholders, and governance, and provide executive-level reporting and mitigation recommendations.

Requirements

Requires proven end-to-end I&IT project management experience, including schedules, scope, deliverables, budgets, risks, and implementation, as well as hands-on experience with Oracle Service Cloud or similar platforms. Candidates should have knowledge of Agile and Kanban, experience leading teams and vendors and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, and strong communication, governance, and executive reporting skills.

Listed skills

• Executive Reporting · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Agile · Preferred
• Kanban · Preferred
• Requirements gathering · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• I&IT Project Management
• Project Scheduling
• Scope Management
• Budget Management
• Risk Management
• Oracle Service Cloud
• Technology Transitions
• Implementation
• Agile
• Kanban
• Vendor Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Governance
• Executive Reporting
• Fiscal Control

Job areas

• Technology
• Management & Leadership
• Government & Public Sector