Project Manager

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Kinaxis (Product) Full time

At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact.

Every day, we're empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet - for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need - everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste - make it to market and into our hands when we need them with mínimal ecological footprint.

We make the world better, and you can too.

**Project Manager**:
**Job location**: our office in **_Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada - Hybrid; all other North American locations - remote)_**:
**About the team**:
This role is under Program Management office (PMO) which is part of Product organization. PMO is responsible for technical product development initiatives, Capex, Governance, Change Management, Risk Management, Roadmap Planning, Product KPIs, R&D Process and Program Management of R&D programs and releases and support of project management tools.

**What you will do**:
**Project Manager** is responsible to lead projects of varying complexity. Leading a project would entail to work with product management to define project scope and work with product development team to come up with schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects. Also could be responsible to coordinate various goal oriented work items that may require gathering stakeholders to come up with actionable tasks.

In performing these roles, Project Manager will be expected to blend traditional project management principles and practices with an agile development approach in the right proportions to fit the projects. Key responsibilities are:

- Being part of the PMO, responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and be able to own and coordinate those projects
- Be able to help PMO Focus on three Key Performance Indicators: On-time Delivery, Quality and Efficiency
- Demonstrate broad knowledge of Project Management Skills
- Project management
- Be able to understand software architecture and follow through actions to accomplish project goals
- Plan and implement active projects
- Performs the overall day-to-day management of multiple projects to ensure that project objectives are achieved within time/cost/quality constraints
- Responsible for project documentation including project plan and weekly status reports
- Reports project progress on a regular basis to ensure the project's overall direction and integrity
- Performs management of the risks of the project, including the development of contingency plans
- Manage project scope and change control and escalate issues where necessary
- Ensure project objectives are understood and met, ensuring that the Project Team members understand the requirements
- Ensure all groups are adequately consulted and are satisfied with each deliverable as it effects their specialist area

**Tools / Technologies we use**

Atlassian (JIRA / Confluence), MS Office, Miro, SharePoint

**What we are looking for**:
**Education and Certifications**
- University degree or college diploma in computer science, engineering
- Certification such as PMP is a definite asset
- Agile certifications such as SAFe, PMI-ACP, CSM, CPO is a definite asset

**Knowledge/Experience**
- Up to 5 years of experience with Enterprise Software development project management experience end to end, with agile ways of working
- Experience to evolve and coach teams on Agile journey
- Experience and exposure with PMO tools (e.g. Project Scheduling Tools, Resource Planning, Risk Registers)
- Adept user of Microsoft Office Tools such as Excel, Word, Visio
- Experience using and administering Jira
- Solid understanding of software development life cycle models as well as good working knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices

**Personal Attributes**
- Solid leadership skills
- Extremely organized
- Comfortable speaking/presenting to Executive and Senior Leadership.
- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Ability to conduct research into systems issues and products as required.
- Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

**What we have to offer**:

- **Challenging Work - **We love solving highly complex problem

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