Expert Program and Project Management

4 weeks ago


Montreal, Canada CN Full time
Job Summary

The senior project manager will possess the authority to manage end-to-end planning and delivery of multiple parallel projects within the Operational Technology program office. Oversees all aspects of projects, sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of the project, builds and maintains working relationships with team members, vendors, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of the projects and verify that the project portfolio achieves the potential benefits defined in the projects business case. The senior project manager will actively participate in the deployment of projects governance, standards & best practices. The senior project manager will be responsible to supervise project team members as well as manage project managers.

Main Responsibilities
  1. Responsible for coordination and completion of large scale and complex projects;
  2. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures;
  3. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals;
  4. Negotiates changes in scope, budget or schedule with sponsor and steering committee and/or management according to CN I&T operating model;
  5. Leads and directs the work of others;
  6. Report progress to delivery manager and/or head of a unit/department and steering committee;
  7. Identify resource requirements;
  8. Identify milestones and critical success factors;
  9. Communicate and collaborate with people across the organization, partners, clients and vendors to get work done;
  10. Ensure project transparency with timely and effective project communications;
  11. Escalate issues and risks with available options as appropriate;
  12. Lead steering committee with the Senior Delivery Managers;
  13. Align delivery teams & practices throughout the projects execution;
  14. Manage project constrains & assumptions and maintain projects KPIs throughout the projects lifecycle;
  15. Handover successfully the projects outcomes to operation & support teams, leading to successful projects closure.
Requirements
  • At least 10 years experience in IT Project Management.
  • Proven experience with cloud migration projects such as Azure and GCP
  • Knowledge on energy management and fueling solution is an asset.
  • Experience with end to end delivery of mission-critical technology products/services where down time is close to zero
  • Ability to think strategically and at the same time diving deep into technical and operational details
  • PMP Certification, or equivalent (Prince-2, PMI-ACP, …)
  • Highly familiar with Agile methodologies (Lean, Scrum,…), Dev-Ops, and continuous integration & continuous delivery
  • Master project management best practices and strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact with different levels and types of users
  • Ability to deliver projects on-time/on-budget that meet business objectives
  • Ability to coordinate interdependencies with other projects
  • Strong leadership, negotiation, facilitation and interpersonal skills
  • Quick learner, autonomous and comfortable managing ambiguity in a fast paced, changing environment
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Project Professional Server (PPM)/PWA)
  • Intermediate to expert skill with MS Excel or MS PowerPoint
  • Excellent communication of both written and spoken English and French
  • Experience working in the Transportation or Rail industry on IT projects is an asset
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