Project Manager – Strategy & Impact Business Enablement

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

📋 Description

• Oversee strategic projects and business enablement initiatives from initiation through to planning, execution, monitoring, implementation, and closure.

• Define project objectives, scope, success criteria, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, timelines, governance frameworks, and delivery strategies.

• Lead discovery and requirements-gathering efforts, including workshops, stakeholder interviews, process mapping, and solution-definition discussions.

• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, change requests, and competing priorities effectively.

• Provide recommendations and escalation options to sponsors and governance bodies.

• Coordinate deliverables, approvals, communications, and project activities with internal teams, senior leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, consultants, and stakeholders.

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

• Facilitate Agile and hybrid delivery through backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, stakeholder reviews, retrospectives, and ongoing improvement.

• Coordinate communications, marketing, digital, content, event, partnership, and stakeholder-engagement workstreams as necessary.

• Enhance project delivery practices, governance processes, requirements-gathering techniques, stakeholder engagement, and organizational project management maturity.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–8 years of professional experience in business.

• A minimum of 3–4 years in leading projects, programs, organizational change initiatives, or business transformation efforts.

• Preferred post-secondary education in Project Management, Business Administration, Marketing, Commerce, Communications, Journalism, Digital Media, or a related field.

• Professional project management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or an equivalent recognized qualification.

• Expertise in project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.

• Proficient in project lifecycle management and delivery.

• Experience in requirements gathering, business analysis, and scope definition.

• Conducting requirements workshops, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, and process mapping.

• Knowledge of scope, assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and change management.

• Skills in stakeholder management, negotiation, influence, and consensus building.

• Proficiency in risk, issue, dependency, and change management.

• Familiarity with project governance and providing executive decision support.

• Capable of delivering executive presentations, status reports, and recommendations.

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.

• Knowledge of Agile, hybrid, and traditional project management methodologies.

• Skills in backlog management, roadmap planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

• Experience in organizational change and business transformation.

• Coordination experience with vendors, consultants, and external stakeholders.

• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.

• Excellent organizational, analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and project management, scheduling, reporting, collaboration, and backlog management tools.

• Ability to coach stakeholders and teams on project delivery practices and governance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.