Project Manager – On Demand

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

📋 Description

• Oversee projects throughout their entire lifecycle, from initiation and discovery to implementation, transition, and closure.

• Specify project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, success criteria, and governance needs.

• Create and uphold project charters, work plans, timelines, budgets, resource plans, status updates, and implementation roadmaps.

• Collaborate with internal consultants, client stakeholders, vendors, contractors, and technical delivery teams.

• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, quality, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, assumptions, and change requests.

• Set up project management routines, including status meetings, action tracking, reporting, RAID logs, and decision documentation.

• Facilitate project meetings, workshops, steering committees, and executive briefings.

• Maintain communication across business, technical, operational, and leadership teams.

• Assist in gathering requirements, solution planning, testing, training, deployment, change management, and post-go-live stabilization.

• Coordinate project transitions between sales, consulting, architecture, development, implementation, and support teams.

• Monitor delivery performance, resource utilization, project finances, milestones, and client satisfaction.

• Proactively identify delivery risks and implement mitigation and recovery strategies.

• Ensure project documentation is accurate, up-to-date, confidential, and accessible to authorized stakeholders.

• Contribute to lessons learned, process enhancements, and PM61 delivery standards.

• Foster client relationships, promote repeat business, and support long-term account growth.

• Possible assignments may involve CRM and ERP implementations, systems integration, business transformation, custom development, data migration, enterprise architecture, organizational change, and technology adoption initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A post-secondary degree, diploma, or equivalent experience in project management, business, information technology, engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of five years' experience managing business, technology, consulting, or transformation projects.

• Proven track record of leading projects from initiation through delivery and transition.

• Experience in managing scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, resources, and stakeholders.

• Strong capability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including business analysts, architects, developers, testers, vendors, and client representatives.

• Proficient in preparing project plans, status reports, RAID logs, governance documentation, decision records, and executive communications.

• Exceptional written, verbal, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.

• Solid understanding of project governance, change control, quality management, and delivery assurance.

• Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities in a remote setting.

• Strong client-service focus, professional judgment, discretion, and accountability.

• Must have legal entitlement to work in Canada and be available for remote assignments within Canada.

• Preferred experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, or similar enterprise platforms.

• Preferred certifications include PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAFe, ITIL, or equivalent.

• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, hybrid, or scaled delivery methodologies is preferred.

• Preferred experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet, Monday.com, or similar.

• Bilingual or multilingual skills are a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Compensation arrangements will be documented in writing for each engagement.

• Opportunities for on-demand consulting assignments with working hours and schedules agreed upon for each engagement.