Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Oversee one or more projects or initiatives throughout all stages of the project lifecycle, ensuring the successful delivery of scope, timeline, budget, quality, and business objectives.

• Direct discovery, planning, and requirements-gathering efforts to define objectives, scope boundaries, success criteria, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and deliverables.

• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, planning sessions, and governance meetings.

• Create and maintain comprehensive project management plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency logs, communication plans, governance processes, and status reporting systems.

• Manage changes to project scope, evaluate impacts, prepare recommendations, and aid in governance decisions.

• Coordinate planning, prioritization, delivery, and approval of deliverables among internal teams, vendors, consultants, and stakeholders.

• Oversee communications, marketing, digital initiatives, content creation, event planning, partnership development, and stakeholder engagement workstreams.

• Foster relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, vendors, business leaders, and delivery teams while leading cross-functional teams.

• Track project performance and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery hurdles.

• Prepare and deliver project updates, options analyses, recommendations, and decision-making materials.

• Support Agile and hybrid delivery by managing backlogs, planning roadmaps, conducting sprint planning, organizing stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and promoting continuous improvement.

• Enhance project delivery practices, governance frameworks, requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and overall organizational project management maturity.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–8 years of business experience, including a minimum of 3–4 years in leading projects, programs, initiatives, organizational change efforts, or business transformation activities.

• Proven experience in independently managing projects through every phase of the project lifecycle.

• Proficient in developing project charters, business cases, project management plans, schedules, budgets, governance frameworks, communication strategies, and status reporting processes.

• Skilled in leading requirements-gathering workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, process-mapping workshops, backlog creation activities, and solution-definition discussions.

• Competent in establishing scope boundaries, documenting assumptions and constraints, managing project scope, and assessing impacts from proposed scope modifications.

• Experienced in facilitating stakeholder alignment and consensus-building across business units, leadership teams, subject matter experts, vendors, and delivery teams.

• Knowledgeable in managing project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests.

• Experienced in leading Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional project delivery methodologies.

• Proven ability to support cross-functional projects that involve multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, organizational change, and executive visibility.

• Capable of preparing and presenting project updates, options, recommendations, risks, issues, and decisions to senior stakeholders.

• Post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Public Relations, Marketing, Commerce, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Hold a professional project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or an equivalent recognized certification.

• Strong capabilities in project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.

• Excellent skills in requirements gathering, business analysis, scope definition, risk management, issue handling, dependency tracking, change management, governance, and decision support.

• Outstanding written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, consensus-building, organizational, analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

• Experience in managing and coordinating cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.

• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, backlog management, reporting, and collaboration tools.

• Knowledgeable in Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• 6-month contract with the potential for extension.