Senior Project Manager

4 days ago


Vernon, Canada Manitoba Public Insurance Full time
Overview

As the Senior Project Manager you are responsible for the success of both division and corporate projects. As project champion, you provide guidance to, and directs all project activity through, the assigned project manager(s) and technical leaders.

You will often lead long term projects (one year or longer in duration) and will often be responsible for services provided by third parties and a team(s) comprised of direct and indirect project staff, including consultants.  Most often the large team is comprised of several streams of parallel activities involving various methodologies e.g. Business Architecture, Technical Architecture, and Organizational Change Management.

Responsibilities
  • Manage the full project life cycle from initiation to closeout, ensuring all the requisite key controls are in place to manage project constraints to baseline e.g. scope, schedule, budget and quality, resulting in delivery to timeline, budget, and quality.
  • Understand business objectives, strategies and the project’s business case, explores the scope of business issues and prepares a project plan, including estimating required resources and timelines.
  • Create, execute and manage project plans, including scope, resources, schedules, budget, communication, risk and issue plans.
  • Identify and manage risks and issues that emerge throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Lead project discussions and participate as an active member of the project team.
  • Manage, co-ordinate, and schedule project delivery streams, resources and activities to ensure tasks are executed according to the project plan and objectives.
  • Provide direction to operational management and a project team.
  • Manage the project schedule, milestones, deliverables, and action items for projects.
  • Organize and oversee release of key deliverables for acceptor/approver.
Qualifications
  • Degree in Business, Commerce, or related discipline.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, designation or equivalent.
  • Supplementary courses related to Project Management i.e. Risk Management, Program Management and Agile Project Management, are an asset.
  • Eight to ten years’ related experience, including five years managing medium to large projects and special initiatives. This includes high visibility projects that involve large scope and budgets, multiple system changes and multiple stakeholder groups.
  • Experience in an Agile environment an asset.
  • Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate a diversified work group/project team.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, parallel projects or multiple streams of work on a very large project.
  • Strong strategic and tactical planning skills, with the ability to align business and technology planning.
  • Strong project management skills, including Work Breakdown Structures, requirements management, deliverables, and budget allocations.
  • Experience in requirements gathering and requirements documentation.
Employee Benefits

Health benefits

We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

  • flexible health, dental and vision plans
  • health spending account
  • travel health coverage
  • other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

Financial security

In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

  • registered pension plan
  • group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
  • critical illness insurance
  • sick leave to cover short-term disability
  • long-term disability

Wellness

We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:

  • vacation entitlement
  • flexible work arrangement for eligible positions
  • maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
  • bereavement and family responsibility leaves
  • employee and family assistance program
  • mental-health programming
  • lunch-and-learn offerings
  • discounted gym memberships and wellness account

Diversity and inclusion

Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.

Employee recognition

It’s important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.

Professional development

We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up-to-date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.

Safety and health

In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.

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