Senior IT Project Manager

Come join us in reshaping the future with AtkinsRéalis. AtkinsRéalis is dedicated in engineering a better future for our planet and its people.

The delivery of Information Technology to the AtkinsRéalis of companies is via a function called IT Services which is organised as a global operation with significant presence in Canada, India, and the UK. IT Services has developed an operating model to revolutionise the way IT services are provided to the company, moving from a ‘Business as Usual’ focus to an organisation driven by Business Value. Key concepts include transitioning to digital products, adopting agile delivery approaches across the organisation, leveraging cloud services, and applying focus to supporting company project bids and delivery. 

Purpose of the Role:

The Senior Project Manager will be part of the IT PMO team and provide management of complex projects and initiatives across IT Towers. You will be part of a dynamic fast-paced team delivering exemplary customer experience to our end users by ensuring repeatable and predictable delivery within scope, time, budget, and quality. You will manage the delivery of value-based IT solutions through active participation and collaboration with cross-disciplinary and cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and executive leadership. Through practical and pragmatic application of project management disciplines, you will help eliminate non-value adding bureaucracy, ensure customers are provided with timely outputs and outcomes that deliver value, and demonstrate how professional project management benefits the organisation. 

This role will be based in Toronto, ON.

Your role within the Team:

• Manage projects across various domains of IT and support the delivery of the integrated IT services portfolio roadmap.
• Ensure practical and pragmatic application of delivery approaches, compliant with established methodologies and best practices.
• Negotiate resources required for project delivery teams both internally and from partnered organisations.
• Work closely with customers and assist with the creation of business cases for projects and ensure project objectives, scope and deliverables and clearly defined, outlined, understood, and agreed to by project governance.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with project sponsors and stakeholders.
• Lead, coach, and mentor cross-functional project teams.
• Manage cross-disciplinary teams to ensure progress and delivery of products in accordance with agreed timescales, quality, processes, and procedures.
• Interface with and manage outsourced and service partners to ensure best value solutions are delivered across the organisation adhering to the IT PMO best practices.
• Manage project budgets and resources effectively, facilitate stakeholder meetings and manage expectations.
• Work with the business change management team to develop plans and strategies to minimise disruption.
• Promote a culture that encourages multi-skilled development of team members, with a specific focus on all aspects relating to an IT organisation.
• Contribute to the team initiatives such as strategy formulation and innovation.

Because we offer:

• The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
• An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
• A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
• A work environment focused on health and safety.

The Ideal Candidate:

• Attained an appropriate level of project management practitioner level qualification and/or can demonstrate extensive application of formal project management methodologies including Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Clearly evidenced track record of successful project delivery, in an IT environment, through the application of project management principles, methods, techniques and tools from initiation through to implementation.
• Working knowledge and application of techniques including business case preparation, requirements management, planning, risk, and issue management, change control, configuration management and Information Assurance.
• Ability to quickly gain high-level understanding of new technology and development processes.
• Experience of budget and cost management and control.
• Well-rounded individual who will create a highly effective project team delivering value to our customers.
• Have a bias toward action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive delivery at speed.
• Be able to demonstrate breadth and depth knowledge in products and services associated within Technical Services.
• Appreciation of user-experience, business and commercial issues is a must.
• Provide leadership through a proactive can-do attitude.
• Inquisitive and adopts a creative approach to their work.
• Coach and mentor team members to maximise their potential.
• Well-developed interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate, clearly and succinctly, at all levels from technical though to senior management and Group Executives.
• Able to prioritise activities with conflicting demands.
• Able to manage workload and work at the correct level of detail.
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Occasional travel to other offices, potentially overseas is a requirement of this role.
• Proven experience of delivering process efficiencies and improvements.
• Project management qualifications such as APMP, PRINCE2 practitioner, or equivalent are beneficial. 
• Competencies specific for this role:
  • Flexibility in both attitude and approaches to work Strong analytical and financial management skills.
  • Enthusiastic.
  • Commercially minded.
  • Discreet and confidential manner.
  • Sense of urgency.
  • Lateral thinker.
  • Assertive.
  • Professional role model.
  • Excellent communicator.
• Ability to build and maintain efficient working relationships with remote teams.
• Demonstrate ability to take ownership of and accountability for relevant products and services.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and complete your own work, whilst remaining a team player.
• Willingness to engage with and work in other technologies.

Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.

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